Moving Forward

Paperdoll Journal Ancestry

September 2018

I'm hoping you're reading this post after having a fantastic summer full of documented memories for generations of family history research! For me, I am feeling great after a summer full of new discoveries on several research trips and establishing the template for the design, format and structure of Paperdoll Journal. Thank you all for your support, feedback and cheer! Moving forward is my fall theme while  exploring my genealogy and family history leading to the Great Migration. ​~ Lisa

Great Migration:
​The African-American Exodus North

'In the 1920s, Harlem's African-American population exploded — with nearly 200,000 African Americans inhabiting a neighborhood where there had been virtually no blacks 15 years earlier. Above, a Harlem street in 1942.' NPR

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