Very few TNGenWeb pages look at history, and this is one area where ALHN can provide a real service. Click here to learn more about ALHN and some basic rules about AHLN web pages. The most common suggestions for items needed for genealogy pages and many history pages include things like transcriptions of marriage records, deeds, court records, and tombstones. But there are other possibilities that would involve only a bit of creativity without major commitments of time and money. Black Funeral Programs .
Many black communities share in a tradition of printed funeral programs.
These programs often list the deceased's date of birth, date of death, date of burial, and date of funeral, minister, place of interment, and funeral home. Many now include photographs of the deceased. Most include an obituary more detailed than that of a newspaper. They are extremely interesting. Find someone in the black community who has collected and saved them and borrow them to transcribe or scan.