Cliveden: Finding Black Families: Stories from The Chew Family Papers

When seven generations of a wealthy Philadelphia-based family save all of their household records and correspondence, you know there are some compelling stories buried in there. But where to start?

For years, staff at Cliveden in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia have utilized these records to interpret the house, and recently they have spear-headed an effort to digitize a select group of documents that illuminate the lives of African American residents. Members of the African American Genealogy Group have begun to sift through and process these stories to start to weave together family lines and relations.

This project was funded by the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Interpretation and Education Endowed Fund that was made possible by a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Finding Black Families: Stories from The Chew Family Papers is free to the public; advanced registration is required.

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