On 05/07/2012 19:28, Michele Lewis wrote: > I just realized there is no place in Legacy to record a person’s race > (or is there?) I just received a marriage license in the mail from > Forrest County, MS on one of my relatives. The marriage came from one > of the “Colored†marriage books. When I requested the marriage I had no > idea that the man she married was black. Lucky for me the clerk in > Forrest County was smart enough to check the “Colored†books when she > didn’t find the marriage in the white marriage book. I looked for this > man right away in the WWI draft cards and I did find him (listed as > black). However, if I hadn’t done any more research on his for months I > might have forgotten he was black and missed records discounted certain > records because of race. If there isn’t a place to record race (if > there is I couldn’t find it) it would be nice if there was.
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