Elizabeth Shown Mills

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Elizabeth Shown Mills (December 29, 1944 — ) is a genealogist and historical writer who has spent her life studying Southern culture and the relationships between people, emotional as well as genetic. Her dozen books and more than 500 articles on generational history have been published by popular and academic presses in history, literature, and sociology. A faculty member and course director at the Samford University Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research, Elizabeth is a past president of both the American Society of Genealogists and the Board for Certification of Genealogists, as well as past editor of the National Genealogical Society Quarterly. Her 2004 historical novel Isle of Canes (based on her research in the archives of six nations), follows a Creole family across four generations as they rose from slavery to hack an empire out of Louisiana's cane brakes before the Civil War and Jim Crow again stripped them of everything but their pride. Mills is best known, however, for two reference works that are considered "standards" in her field: Evidence: Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian(1997) and Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace (2007). Related topics: Coincoin. Marie Thérèse Metoyer.Genealogy

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  • Analysis: Elizabeth Shown Mills, "Master-Slave Sexual Dynamics and Slaveholding of Free People of Color," Southern Quarterly (Winter 2006): 158-75.