Future Works Working Title: LEGACY: Born of Slaves Announcement Date: TBD Projected Release Date: TBD The book will be a work of fiction based on facts uncovered during the genealogical research of our family history. The central characters are John Cornutt and his slave family (Rebecca, Henry, George, Frances, Tate and Clark) and their life […]
Future Works Working Title: A Cornute Family History Announcement Date: TBD Projected Release Date: TBD Although we have collected many photos and source documents during our research of the Cornutes, we are putting out this call for any Cornute family documents, photos and stories. We, as Cornute genealogists, are making every effort to publish the […]
The original Family Historian started as an annual newspaper to share information and stories with the family. Family members participated by submitting their special news, recipes, travel, academic and personal achievements, births, obituaries, birthdays, business endeavors, weddings and sports activities. This project proved to be a valuable communication tool for introducing newly-found family. The Family […]
A few years down our genealogy research path while continually hitting goldmine after goldmine of new and exciting family information, it dawned on Tracy that “hey, we’re officially Family Historians”. That term “Family Historians” stayed in the frontal lobe of her brain for quite some time. She finally said that we need to do something […]
This project was first developed in 2001 as we were preparing for the reunion being held in Chicago that year. We wanted to create something special that the family could enjoy viewing while finding their names on the family tree. The initial black and white design, a 3 ft x 10 ft banner, had a […]
True to the team’s strengths, Tracy envisioned a short movie trailer to truly inspire the family to visually understand their deep contextual links to American History. Tracy’s always watching or reading about history being the buff that she is and while watching the documentary mini-series America The Story of Us the vision for this project […]
The Cornute Family website was created in 2014 to communicate all things Cornute to the hundreds of known Cornute descendants and hopefully it will be discovered by the many descendants that we currently don’t have the privilege of knowing. This project has delivered as some family descendants have found us via this path. This website […]
