It is the time of year when families travel to be together, share meals and sit around swapping stories about childhood, relatives who’ve passed away and what...
Read moreFamilySearch, Generations Network announce agreement
FamilySearch and The Generations Network Inc., parent company of Ancestry.com, have announced an agreement that provides free access to Ancestry.com for patrons of...
Read moreCommunity members open archives of forgotten slave town
One of the nation’s oldest black communities where slaves and their descendants have lived for two centuries is writing its own history books.The long-forgotten...
Read moreLiving In The Past: History Center Lets The Genealogy Out Of The Bottle
Sandra Haxton has gone back with the Sparkman family to Ireland in the late 1600s.Judy Kelley has tracked the Holbrooks into the mid- to late 16th century. As...
Read moreWatson’s DNA reveals some African ancestry
News that geneticist James Watson inherited 16 percent of his DNA from an African ancestor may provide the Nobel Prize winner with a new perspective on his ancestry...
Read moreBlack Britons find their African roots
Beaula McCalla, a youth worker from the UK town of Bristol, never imagined that she would one day meet her relatives in Equatorial Guinea, 6,500 km away. “It...
Read moreUnearthing a Family Tree’s Diverse Roots
Journalist, novelist and playwright Thulani Davis traces her roots in her new book, My Confederate Kinfolk: a Twenty-First Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots...
Read moreNew Exhibit Profiles Ontario’s Early Black History
TORONTO and DRESDEN, ON, Dec. 13 /CNW/ – A traveling exhibit called Enslaved Africans in Upper Canada will leave a lasting legacy for the McGuinty...
Read moreFrom Slaves to Sharecroppers
The sign on the gate reads “No Trespassing.” The historic marker on the side of the road informs passersby that this is the Levi Jordan Plantation — “Home built...
Read moreGetting to the Root of It: Sullivan Foundation Invites Attendees to Trace their Roots & Share in Africa’s History
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Guests at the Sullivan Foundation’s Fifth Biennial Awards Dinner will be invited to trace theirroots and...
Read moreHolding on to history may cost county dearly
DURHAM – Durham County’s history is falling apart, and it will cost taxpayers nearly a million bucks to put it all back together.That’s the cost of...
Read moreThe Epic of Ota Benga
In 1906 a Batwa tribesman from the Congo named Ota Benga was put in a cage and exhibited alongside an orangutan at the Bronx Zoo. The tribesman first arrived in the...
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