Part 2: What Can We Glean from Oral Histories?
In “Part 1: What Can We Glean from Oral Histories,” I promised to share some of the amazing discoveries I have made through oral histories. I will illustrate how I recovered one ancestor’s story without having anyone’s recollection of him. No Personal Recollections After I interviewed my mother about her grandfather, Rev. Lafayette Franklin Vance (1861-1952),…