. >> she started by looking at 1860 records for sharswood then owner n.c.eah. he had 58 slaves here. >> but with only age and gender listed -- >> you have enslaved people 69, 44, 34 and not a single name. >> no name. >> there was no way of knowing whether violet and david were among them. so kariss looked up david and violet miller in the 1870 census, the first one after the civil war where they finally appeared by name. it showed they were farm hands, that they couldn't read or write, and it listed their children, including, as kariss showed us, a very young sara miller. >> there's sara. she's 1 year old. >> 1 years old. >> this looks like emily. >> yeah. she's 3. and here is samuel. >> yeah. >> he's 5. to kariss that meant samuel, sara's older brother, was born before emancipation, so kariss surged for him in another historical record called the virginia slave birth index, where slave owners had to list births on their property. >> this document -- >> and there under n.c. miller's name -- >> n.c. -- >> right. >> and there's samuel. >> was samuel. >> and l