Caroline’s Tribe Working Groups

Planning Group

The explanation of this group is straightforward; this group plans the activities that we sponsor. It plans our family reunions, family vacations, and all other activities we sponsor. Many families alternate the individuals who perform this function; we do not. The results are that our planners have become highly skilled and experienced in performing this function.

The role of this group has evolved beyond simple event planning; this group develops and implements strategies that result in changing the way we do business such that we meet the challenge of remaining relevant and effective despite the ever-changing generational landscape as technology and the interests of young people change and evolve.

Genealogy Group

To the extent possible, the genealogy group has used DNA science, census, death and burial records, and other genealogical tools to confirm, support, and fill in gaps in the histories that have been orally passed down over time from the elders in our family. In the case of many families in this country and others, there are volumes of details about family history that are lost to history. The goal of this group is to slow the rate of loss as best we can by capturing the information that is still available and preserving it in such a way that it will be available for future generations.

Thus far, this group has published two volumes on our family’s genealogy and history and has updated many details in genealogical software and websites. The group is currently working on a narrative story of our family’s history from the times of slavery to the present.