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Thursday, June 18th, 2026 at 5:00 PM (GMT+0)
Found Together: The Kingstree 435 Story
On the 10‑year anniversary of the Freedmen’s Bureau Project, this Juneteenth Live shares how a global indexing effort (1,781,463 names) led to an unforgettable breakthrough years later. Using DiscoverFreedmen.org and the weekly community of Freedmen’s Bureau Friday, descendants discovered a transportation record listing 435 newly freed people moved from Kingstree, South Carolina to Marlin, Texas—finding their families on the same list, together
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