Finding Your Roots

I would like to contact the show regarding the 1850 and 1860 slave censuses that Dr. Gates mentions about not having names. I have been trying to find a way to start a program where names can be added to those censuses using the 1870 census, probate records, and records such as tax lists and slave sales. Also making use of the plantation records themselves - for instance, I used to work for Alex Haley and we discovered that the family cookbook for the Jackson family (for the series "Queen") that is in a college library in Alabama had the slave births and deaths recorded at the end of the book. Other records like this should exist. It would be a major project but it might help connect families better. I used to work in Salt Lake City also, and knew Johni Cerny. I was sorry to hear about her death.