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Publications

PUBLICATIONS (By me & about me)

2022

  • Yawn, Andrew J. ‘25 Years of Misery’: The Search for the Lost Graves of Tennessee’s Leased Convicts.” Tennessean. 9 April 2022. I am quoted in the article. Available online.
  • Wines, Michael. “Seven Decades Later, the 1950 Census Bares Its Secrets.” New York Times. 31 March 2022. I am quoted in the article. Available online.

2021

  • Koonce, Taneya Y. “Finding Family Stories in Census Records” 6 April 2022. FOREVER Yours Blog. <read online>
  • Hood, Abby Lee. “Tennessee professors and historians uncover history of convict leasing in the state.” Tennessee Lookout, 6 October 2021. <read online>
  • Koonce, Taneya Y. “Taneya’s Obituary Corner.” Column in AnSearchin’ News, a publication of the Tennessee Genealogical Society. 2018, 2021

2020

  • Sammons, Mary Beth. “Telling Our Family Stories: 4 Reasons Why It’s More Important Than Ever to Write Our Family Narratives.” Writer’s Digest. 21 November 2020. Part of my family history is featured in the story. <read online>
  • Knox, Constance. “Shout Out to NC Summer Series – Worth Watching!” North Carolina Ancestry [Blog]. 18 July 2020. <read online>

pre-2020

  • Koonce, Taneya Y. “Using the Slave Narratives for African American Research.” Guest blog for Lisa Lisson’s Are You My Cousin. February 2016. <blog post online>
  • Koonce, Taneya Y. “Searching for Osburn: A Case Study In Seeking the Enslaved.” Going In-Depth. Volume 4, Issue 8. September 15, 2016.
  • Koonce, Taneya Y. “10 Reasons to Use WordPress for your Society Website.” FGS Forum. Volume 27, Number 1. Summer 2015.
  • Koonce, Taneya Y. “Using WordPress to Create a Biographical Database: The Who’s Who Site of the TNGenWeb Project.” AAHGS News. Mar/Apr 2014.
  • Martin-Osuagwu, Deanna. Rooted in Family History. Jet Magazine. 5 February 2014. Online only. Archived online. I am one of the four African American genealogists featured in the article. 
  • Koonce, Taneya Y. “Genealogy Hacked: Who’s Who in TN Project.” FGS Forum. Volume 25, Number 2. Summer 2013. Interview by Thomas MacEntee.
  • Koonce, Taneya Y. “Tennessee GenWeb Project.” Family Findings: Journal of the Mid-West Tennessee Genealogical Society. Volume 45, Number 4. October 2013.
  • Statewide Decedent Index. NCGS News: Newsletter of the North Carolina Genealogical Society. Volume 27, Number 5. pg. 7. PDF download.
  • Koonce, Taneya Y. “Florida Students Attending North Carolina Colleges: Part 2.” Florida Genealogist. Volume 45, Number 3, December 2011: 75-79.”
  • Koonce, Taneya Y. “Florida Students Attending North Carolina Colleges.” Florida Genealogist. Volume 45, Number 2, August 2011: 43-45.
  • Koonce, Taneya Y. “NC Yearbook Index.” NCGS Newsletter: the Newsletter of the North Carolina Genealogical Society 34, No. 4 (Fall 2010): 8. North Carolina Genealogical Society. <http://www.ncgenealogy.org>.
  • Koonce, Taneya Y., Tom McKnight, and Anna Williams. “Investigating Napier Connections in Alabama and Tennessee.” Old Lawrence Reminiscences: a Bulletin of the Lawrence County Alabama Historical Commission. (2008).