It is impossible for descendants of African-American slaves to research their family history without encountering the harsh reality their ancestors experienced, a...
Read moreLDS Church Making Strides Preserving African Family Histories
Genealogy experts are experiencing a race against time in Sub-Saharan Africa; an area that spans 36 countries. There is an urgency to collect oral interviews of...
Read moreNative American Tribe Finds Slave Cemetery in Little Rock
A group with Arkansas connections says an unmarked slave cemetery has been discovered in Pulaski County on its newly purchased property. The cemetery has been found...
Read moreThe slaves who sued for freedom
I n New England, suits by enslaved African-Americans date back to Colonial times. The cases were frequently based on a slave’s claim of white or Native American...
Read moreSlave descendant’s genetic quest leads to African apology
African-American businessman William Holland’s ancestors were subjected to slavery in Virginia — but they were handed over into slavery by Africans. Now a...
Read moreDiscovery spurs family history
Elvie Barlow was rummaging through some of his grandmother’s belongings some 20 years ago when he came upon a document that would change his life forever...
Read moreMississippi rebel’s descendants seek family facts
One hundred and fifty years have passed since the Civil War, but in Mississippi, the descendants of a legendary rebel are still separating the facts of his life from...
Read moreWHS presents African-American genealogy conference: Looking For A Home June 21 & 22
African-American Genealogy Conference: Looking for a Home Experience a two-day adventure into African-American genealogy, featuring internationally known genealogist...
Read moreUnderstanding History: African-American Burial Traditions
Cemeteries are a treasure trove of historic information. Names, dates, relationships, professions, property can all be gleaned by studying the gravestones and death...
Read moreMy granddad, the Bengali peddler: An African-American writer finds her roots
In 1896, almost a century before Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala caused a stir by daring to show a romance between a black man and an Indian woman in the American...
Read moreFordham to Launch Burial Database Project of Enslaved African Americans
They lie underground, often with no marks to identify them. They’re often interred in out-of-the-way places, hidden from the public. In some cases, their neighbors...
Read moreAfrican-American repatriates tribal treasures through eBay diplomacy
When family researcher William Holland flies back to his ancestral homeland in Cameroon next week, he’ll be bearing gifts: ceremonial masks that were taken out...
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