Tracing your family’s roots may seem like a daunting task, especially if you’re African American. Linda Dorsey-Walker is on a quest to know more about her father’s side of the family.
“My father was Robert Wilson Dorsey,” Linda says. “His father was Howard Wilson Dorsey. His father was Howard Leslie Dorsey. He was, according to the 1860 census, a 7-year-old boy living a household owned by a white family.”
So we came here, to the genealogy library at the Maryland Center for History and Culture in Baltimore. Our library guide is Micah Connor…