 Welcome to the Heritage Exchange video series hosted by Wikitree's US Black Heritage Project. Video number two, how to edit a slave owner profile. In this video, you will learn the Heritage Exchange system for respectfully adding information about any slaves the person owned and what steps you may need to take next depending on different scenarios. When processing documents from the time of slavery, it's important to link that information to all the people named in the document because each person may lead to additional documents. Most documents regarding slaves begin with something to do with the slave owners such as wills, bill of sales, deeds, mortgages, estate valuations, and even diaries. Today we will begin with a will and a probate record. Let's go to the profile for Daniel English from South Carolina. To do this work, I will need a profile for Daniel English, but before creating a profile for him, I first searched Wikitree using the search bar found either here or up here at the top of the screen. When I saw no profile existed for him, I went to the add plus section of the menu and chose new person in the drop down. For more information on how to create a profile, see the video how to create a profile. When I found the will for Daniel English, I also had an 1850 census form, so I had enough basic information needed to create this profile. As soon as I did that, I also added the three census records that I was able to find. Now I am ready to edit this profile to include the slavery information that I also discovered. Going to click edit and scroll to the biography section. The first thing I am going to add are categories. You need to choose this button here that looks like stairs. This is called the category picker. And this is where we will find the categories that we need. I know that his will was probated in Abbaville County, South Carolina, and all his census records were also in that county, so I know he owned slaves in Abbaville County, South Carolina. I am going to type in Abbaville County, South Carolina, and begin typing in slave owner. And you will see that that category pops up and all I need to do is click on it and it will be automatically placed in the exact spot it goes in the biography. Be careful. You will notice that when I type that in, back up here, both choices for slave owner and slave came into view. Make sure that you choose slave owner because that is the one that applies to this category. Next I am going to add the top level heritage exchange category by typing in USBH heritage exchange. You will see that quite a few categories come up when I begin to type that. You only want the top level one that is just USBH heritage exchange. This category will signal to the heritage exchange team that a new profile has been created or edited and needs to be checked for additional categories and proper formatting. Next, scroll down until you are right above the sources heading. Make some space and add the heading slaves with three equal signs. This is where I will be listing the names of the slaves from Daniel's probate record today. However, if more than 10 ancestors are named, please do not list them here. Instead, you will need to create a space page that can be used as a workspace and will have room for longer lists and additional sources. See the video on how to create slave owner space pages for instructions on how to do this. Daniel's probate file from 1853 included a valuation of his estate at the time of his death. In that detailed list of his property were the following names. I am going to copy and paste this that I've already typed into this section. It is okay to write details such as how they were described physically or how much they were valued at. This can tell us something about them. For instance, when a woman is valued at only $360 versus a boy at $1000, she is likely too old or disabled to do more valuable work. Now that I have listed all the slaves mentioned by name using an asterisk or you could choose a number sign, the asterisk will give us bullet points, the number sign will give us a numbered list. I am going to next add the source. The probate file is very large so I can't add a transcription of it here. Instead, I am going to add a link citation. I am going to go to that source and using the source or extension, I am going to click build citation down here and click paste and there is my source citation. I am also going to add c page 58 since this is the specific page on which these enslaved ancestors have been listed. I went back to check if there were any additional pages and found some golden information on page 60. It says the James Callison hired Hampton for $110 and Thomas, I think that is a sadric, I am going to have to check the spelling, hired Wesley for $83.25. I am not going to put this on Daniel's page right now, but I am going to make note of it later when I make the pages the profiles for Hampton and Wesley. Next, I also have some census records from 1830 and 1840 that have unnamed slaves. They are only listed here by approximate age and the number of those slaves at that age range. Although some of these might be the same people listed on more than one record, we can't know that right now without name. So we are going to treat these records separately. I am going to copy and paste my 1830 list that I created and put it below here, bullet points. It looks like it might be a family group based on one adult male, one adult female, and some children, but again we can't know that for certain. Something to keep note of and we will come back to that idea later. I am also going to paste my 1840 census, bullet points. Again it's possible these are the same people 10 years later based on ages, but we can't know that just yet. Next I am going to look at the 1850 slave schedule. Let's look briefly at this 1850 slave schedule. You will notice in this transcription it says that he had one male slave at the age of five in 1850. However if we look at the schedule itself, up here at the top left we find Daniel. It indeed does say he had a male slave at the age of five, but let's go back a page because he's up there at the top. And you'll notice the transcription missed all of these people. Now you need to be careful because there's a number here in front of these entries. In this case the number is numbering them one two three four five six seven and on the next page eight, but sometimes this number will tell you how many slaves that Daniel English had of that age. So it might say that there were five males of 45 years old and six females at 40 years old. In this case they just used a numbering system. Now I'm going to copy paste the list that I have already created of these eight people over here into his profile. You will also see on this 1850 schedule if I go back to the page we started on there is another entry here for somebody with the last name of English. This happens to be the 34 year old son of Daniel English who also owned four slaves. A profile can be created for Daniel Junior and attached to the profile and then this information can also be included on his son's profile. Now I'm going to add a link to the slave schedule in the resources section. Using the source or extension I'm going to click build source citation paste that there. Looking back at this list of all the slaves that David held you will see quickly that we have a problem. We have probably exceeded the limit of 10. We don't know if some of these are the same people or not yet. So right now we've exceeded the limit of 10 that we place on personal profiles. My next step then will be to move this list to a space page so that I'll have room a workspace in order to figure out if these are the same people. If these named people are also the people who were unnamed in these lists. See the video on how to create a slave owner space page for how to do that. For now I'm going to save this information I have added and I'm going to place a note out of respect for any descendants of Daniel English that lets them know we have added the slavery information solely for the purpose of helping descendants of the enslaved ancestors to connect to their family. Let me save this. I'm going to come down to the comment section and I'm going to post the message. It says as a member of the US Black Heritage Project I have added a list of the slaves owned by Daniel English on this profile with categories using the standards of the US Black Heritage Exchange Program. This helps us connect enslaved ancestors to their descendants and I've included a link to our Heritage Exchange Portal to lead people to more information about that program. If you would like to use this comment and you're not a member of the US Black Heritage Project simply remove this first part. This comment can be found in its entirety on the US Black Heritage Project's help page called documenting enslaved people. Although I cannot create profiles for these people who are not named I can and should create profiles for the six named in the probate record. In addition to creating the space page I will next be creating those six profiles. See the video on how to create profiles for enslaved ancestors for instructions on how to do that. This profile now has all the known slavery information for Daniel English. If more information comes to light later it can then be added.