Most of us seem to think that the presence of Africans in Europe is of recent times, though history shows otherwise. Africa had flourishing societies and highly...
Read moreState still has Civil War medals for 200 in black Union companies
Seven months after the Civil War ended and one week before ratification of the 13th Amendment made slavery unconstitutional, two West Virginia companies of an...
Read moreGroup fighting to save Love Cemetery in East Texas
SCOTTSVILLE, Texas – Doris Vitatoe paused midway through a cut-over thicket, deep in a pine forest, and nudged a mangled bit of metal with her cowboy boot. RON...
Read moreUniversities Are Slow To Reveal Links To Slavery
When Brown University released its landmark report on the institution’s connections to slavery in the fall of 2006, academics and reparations advocates across...
Read moreAfrican Americans’ Struggles, Triumphs Shown in Photo Exhibition
(Media-Newswire.com) – Washington — An exhibition of 100 striking black-and-white photographs evokes the personal stories and hard-won victories of...
Read moreSlavery in the Golden State
Did slavery once exist in California? Most Californians, remembering their fourth-grade history classes, would say it did not, and history buffs might point out that...
Read moreWhere Did I Come From? TribalPages Genealogy Maps Have the Answer
Tampa, FL (PRWEB) November 27, 2007 — TribalPages.com, home to over 175,000 family tree websites, today announced the Beta release of their new Genealogy Maps...
Read moreCanadians have no idea where they came from, survey says
A quarter of Canadians do not know their grandmother’s maiden name. According to a survey of over 1,000 people across the country, almost 40 per cent of...
Read moreMystery surrounds black Confederate veteran
The life of Ike Pringle has become a sort of enigma for local historians who are trying to figure out exactly what role the slave played in the American Civil War...
Read moremyfamily.com 2.0 Beta Adds Online Family Trees from Ancestry.com
BELLEVUE, Wa., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ — myfamily.com, the leading private social networking service for families, today announced the launch of its Family Trees...
Read moreHarvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Joins Forces with Family Tree DNA to Launch AfricanDNA.com
BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–AfricanDNA.com, the first company dedicated to offering both genetic testing and genealogical tracing services for African...
Read moreSorenson Genomics to Bring the First-Ever Retail DNA Test to Market
SALT LAKE CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sorenson Genomics, a leading global provider of DNA-related testing services, announced today that the Identigene DNA...
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