Attributions Coverage of Anita Hemmings at Vassar is taken from period newspapers found at the Boston Public Library, the Chronicling America newspaper database at the Library of Congress, Newspaperarchive.com and Newspapers.com. “Irreproachab…
Jill Sim looks at family connections to Boston Brahmin religious circles, and a segregated church culture during the period of rapid change given by immigration waves to Boston. Within the complexities of a family’ of color’s tenuous standing in t…
My great-great grandfather Robert Williamson Hemmings (1841-1908), as he looked c. 1886. Jill looks at Boston Brahmins, the White Anglo Saxon Protestant class, and their ordered-up caste structure of the 19th century in the context of the Hemming…
This episode contains historically racist language that may be offensive for some listeners. Listener discretion is advised. 1850 Bird’s Eye View of Boston Jill continues to dig for evidence of her black relatives and immediately encounters …
This episode is dedicated to the memory of the brilliant Neil Bowman Todd (1936-2014), who was the head of research services at the National Genealogical Historical Society (NEHGS). “In genealogy, you start with yourself and work your way back…
Dr. Love, Anita, Ellen, and Barbara in the New Family Car, New York City, 1910. In Episode Two, Jill Sim covers her grandmother Ellen’s passed down recollections of childhood, between 1907-1923. Ellen Love is born to the house of her grand…
Welcome to the Fade to White Podcast. I’m your host, Jill Sim, and it is my honor to take you on a personal journey of discovery into my family history; a labor of love that has taken me 30 years to complete; a story of a family who went from black …