BLACK_HERITAGE Genealogists
145 members are following BLACK_HERITAGE genealogy content and G2G forum activity. Join the Black_Heritage Project to collaborate.
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Denise E
![]() Jun 29, 2022
Profiles, profile improvement
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Steve Florman
![]() Jun 24, 2022
I am committed to helping in the effort to connect African-Americans with their families.
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Sherrell Brown
![]() Jun 18, 2022
I'm looking for information on my black ancestors, as far back as I can go; to the slave ships if possible.
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Cheryl (Daniels) Varner Ms.
![]() May 25, 2022
Connecting with enslaved family members
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Heather Quinlan
![]() May 21, 2022
I am currently working on compiling information about an African-American cemetery on Staten Island that was paved over in the 1950s.
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Cossy Veatch
![]() May 5, 2022
I've added profiles for the people enslaved by my VA and KY ancestors. I'm beginning the MD and NC ones.
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Jane Hoskinson
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I'm working on the Missouri Freedmen's Narratives.
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Donald Brearley
![]() Apr 16, 2022
I've done a bit of this in Dorchester County MD, transcribing wills and land records, bills of sale, and manumissions for my family and their relatives
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Annette Harpole
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Kya Winbush
![]() Mar 19, 2022
Interested in African-American genealogy
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James Boone
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Natalie (Durbin) Trott
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Sally x
![]() Mar 7, 2022
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Liz Edens
![]() Mar 6, 2022
Adding lists of enslaved people to my slave owning profiles
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Rudy Ramsey
![]() Mar 4, 2022
I have slaveowner ancestors and am interested in helping any possible slave descendants in finding their connection.
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Monica (Bradford) Hayes
![]() Mar 2, 2022
I am African American currently researching my genealogy.
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Jim Antley
![]() Feb 28, 2022
Several of my ancestors were slave holders in Orangeburg County, South Carolina.
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Kay Jemison
![]() Feb 23, 2022
I'm currently researching my own surname Jemison, and the Nobles family. Black heritage is of great interest to me within any surname.
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Amy Johnson
![]() Feb 23, 2022
I'm interested in this topic and would like to be of assistance where I can.
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H Baggott
![]() Feb 13, 2022
New member looking to find ancestors and relatives. Also looking to help others expand their trees. Ties in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and elsewhere.
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Tatianna Newman
![]() Feb 6, 2022
Black family Lineage
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Jay James
![]() Feb 6, 2022
I'm Black and researching my family.
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William Hosea
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Bree Anthony
![]() Jan 27, 2022
Finding my roots
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Tammy Nuckols
![]() Jan 27, 2022
Trying to help trace the slave population my antebellum southern ancestors may have owned at one point and document their family tree.
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Wendy (Wood) Callahan
![]() Jan 26, 2022
Researching the people my ancestors enslaved
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Miyako Jones
![]() Jan 26, 2022
I'm interested in helping with the USBH project.
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Rodney Nicholas
![]() Jan 14, 2022
I am an African American who is very interested in my Black ancestry.
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A Tobin
![]() Jan 13, 2022
Family history.
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David Pratt
![]() Jan 3, 2022
Specialty
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Morgan Mulligan
![]() Jan 3, 2022
Project Member
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Wayne Tucker II
![]() Jan 2, 2022
I research enslaved people in Massachusetts.
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A Kopp
![]() Jan 1, 2022
Related to the kings per dna.
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Claire Taylor
![]() Jan 1, 2022
provide more information about enslaved people from documents of slave-owning ancestors in NC, VA, possibly MD
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Suzanne (Nix) Dyck
![]() Dec 31, 2021
Participating in the US Black Heritage Project
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Marcia Green
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Jai Sanders III
![]() Dec 30, 2021
Of course Black Heritage...
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Nancy (Peterson) Morrissey
![]() Dec 29, 2021
Highlands County Florida, and associated black family research, includes Highlands Park, Lakeside, Lakeside Historic, and other predominate Black Cemeteries in the County. [FL, GA, AL, NC, SC, VA, NJ, IL migration]
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Linda (Lenze) Mearse
![]() Dec 27, 2021
following, to aid myself in proper data-entry
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Evan Overton
![]() Dec 26, 2021
I am interested in my own Black heritage as a person of mixed race descent that includes African-Americans on my paternal side. My father's family is from North Carolina and from what I understand before that, Bermuda.
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David Hamilton
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Jaki Erdoes
![]() Dec 24, 2021
This seems like a worthwhile project.
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Richard Rosenberger
![]() Dec 19, 2021
I’ve been working on US Black Heritage: Connecting Challenge
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Larry Caldwell
![]() Dec 17, 2021
to help further the project
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Noliwe Hill
![]() Dec 13, 2021
Researching Black Heritage
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Carole (Kirch) Bannes
![]() Dec 10, 2021
Working on USBH Project, focusing on central Ohio and Missouri.
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Ruby (Fehd) Carvalho
![]() Dec 10, 2021
helping out.
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Valerie Craft
![]() Dec 10, 2021
Participating in the December 2021 Challenge
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C Torres
![]() Dec 9, 2021
interested in black_heritage project
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L. Ray Sears III, P.E.
![]() Dec 8, 2021
very interested in the Black Heritage Project
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Shante Jones
![]() Dec 8, 2021
none
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Susan Pearson
![]() Dec 8, 2021
Pearson slave holders and documenting names of slaves
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Eunice (Parnell) Officer
![]() Dec 8, 2021
assisting a friend
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M Stuart
![]() Dec 5, 2021
I am a Black American and my ancestors are too!
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D Stockard
![]() Nov 30, 2021
US Black Heritage Project
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Michelle (Hartman) Detwiler
![]() Nov 29, 2021
I enjoy researching those who were enslaved, and their slave owners, to help the descendants of the enslaved find connections and their families.
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Sabrina McCarthy
![]() Nov 28, 2021
I'm African-American. The US Black Heritage Project is helping me to compile my family tree.
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Anonymous Godfrey
![]() Nov 27, 2021
Interest in African American History from Maryland + Delaware
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L Browne
![]() Nov 26, 2021
Helping other discover their heritage is something I want to be a part of!
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Nita Keith
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David Anthony Taylor
![]() Nov 13, 2021
US Black Heritage Project
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John Hadrick
![]() Nov 11, 2021
US Black Heritage Connecting Challenge
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Katrina (Rounsefell) Lawson
![]() Nov 3, 2021
Sorting through my husband's and children's family history. Lindsay, Current are main surnames.
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Frances Carner
![]() Oct 25, 2021
I have just a little in the way of primary sources to contribute to this project but a lot of interest in supporting this project and Black Heritage and Genealogy.
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Harold (Poole III) Poole III
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Joseph Roby
![]() Oct 20, 2021
Researching people enslaved by my Dulany ancestors in Fauquier County, Virginia. I have a wonderful family bible with names, birth years, and family groups listed of the enslaved people at Oakley plantation circa 1860.
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Marci Abraham
![]() Oct 9, 2021
Now that I have discovered an enslaver in my ancestry, and I going to provide as much information as I can to help descendants connect with their families.
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Colleen Jousma
![]() Oct 4, 2021
It's important to know all people's stories, not just my own.
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Kate (Gardner) Schmidt
![]() Oct 4, 2021
connecting
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Jim Bowman
![]() Sep 26, 2021
I hope to share sources and data
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Cheryl (Aldrich) Skordahl
![]() Sep 4, 2021
will help out when I am able.
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Katie (Cooper) Bryant
![]() Sep 1, 2021
Adding profiles and connecting profiles to the WikiTree for Black Americans
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Stacy (Smith) Aannestad
![]() Aug 31, 2021
Interested in helping this project along in any way I can. I unfortunately have ancestors who kept enslaved people, but I do have a few Slave Schedule Census records for them and I think some of the older wills (1700s-early 1800s) mention enslaved people, so whatever can be done with that.
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Pat Meyer
![]() Aug 14, 2021
I am a member of the Black Heritage Project.
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Christy Melick
![]() Aug 10, 2021
Participating in the Black Heritage project
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Patricia Allen
![]() Aug 8, 2021
I am in search of enslaved ancestors.
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Lizz Greer
![]() Aug 4, 2021
Proud of my heritage and all the history it brings.
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X (Gaddy) Darling
![]() Jul 29, 2021
Following
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Anna (Williams) Robinson
![]() Jul 25, 2021
Try to help in the locations I research.
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Valorie (Cowan) Zimmerman
![]() Jul 23, 2021
Becoming more active in this project and the docs tell me to tag myself.
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Nicole (Patterson) Adams
![]() Jul 18, 2021
Researching Warr family in Tennessee
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Anita (Powers) Alexander
![]() Jul 4, 2021
I finally have a place to identify those enslaved and their owners.
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Mel Bishop
![]() Jun 30, 2021
Harrison and surrounding counties, Kentucky.
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Tommy Buch
![]() Jun 10, 2021
US Black Heritage Project volunteer
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Malcolm Hoare
![]() Jun 10, 2021
I have many profiles I am working on as including a Y-DNA match to an African American that I need to start a profile for.
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Melissa (Brown) Bouie
![]() Jun 1, 2021
Hello. I am following so I can help contribute to the US Black Heritage Project.
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Danita (Burkett) Zanrè
![]() Jun 1, 2021
Working to help connect descendants of slaves to our ancestors.
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Pam (Dale) Fraley
![]() May 27, 2021
I am a member of this project
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Hannah (Grant) Berney
![]() May 26, 2021
Virginia wills 1720, & freed persons
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Cheryl Cruise
![]() May 18, 2021
Following, documenting enslaved people held by ancestors
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Eileen (Bellamy) Robinson
![]() May 18, 2021
Want to connect slaves to slave owners
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Julie Hays
![]() May 12, 2021
Wanting to help tell the stories of African Americans.
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David Clemens
![]() May 10, 2021
I have ancestors who held slaves and am creating profiles for the people enslaved by my ancestors.
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Tara Wildes
![]() May 8, 2021
I have African ancestors
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L A Banta
![]() May 2, 2021
Documenting enslaved Kentuckians
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Karen Stewart
![]() Apr 28, 2021
I'm interested in helping to create profiles for the USBH project
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Ellen Smith
![]() Apr 26, 2021
I want to help this project succeed.
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Gina (Pocock) Jarvi
![]() Apr 25, 2021
Creating profiles of enslaved African Americans, slave owners and traders; also Notable African-Americans
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Jean (Blann) Booth
![]() Apr 24, 2021
I hope to eventually find descendants of a particular craftsperson who was enslaved by my ancestor, Mary Eliza (Wilson) Duncan.
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Mike Greer
![]() Apr 23, 2021
I have multiple slave holders in the family.
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Mack Tyner III
![]() Apr 22, 2021
I have many black DNA matches who therefore share the same slaveowning ancestors that I do. I am trying to figure out which ancestor owned which slave and where the DNA comes from by triangulation.
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Adé Akili
![]() Apr 22, 2021
Following in the event there is a task/project I can help with. I'm also adding my ancestors and their descendants for the USBH Connecting Challenge.
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J Clary
![]() Apr 12, 2021
African American Ancestry
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Lisa Christensen
![]() Apr 12, 2021
I am currently entering information for former slaves (with known slave holder names) living in Union Co., Kentucky. I am also specific families from Copiah Co., Mississippi (a friend's family)
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Kelley Conner
![]() Apr 11, 2021
I am passionate about connecting and documenting those who were forced to immigrate here and were enslaved with their descendants.
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Yvonne (McCowan) Gammell
![]() Apr 9, 2021
Adding any enslaved or FPOC in my own family or those that I come across in my family's research
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Stephanie (Martin) White
![]() Apr 7, 2021
Interesting in connecting former enslaved people and/or those in bondage in America (specifically Black Americans of TN, VA, and NC) to living people and finding their families.
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Sacha Heath
![]() Apr 7, 2021
I am following this project and working on the enslaved_people project with the goal of connecting descendants of slaves with their ancestors, starting with slave holders and the people they enslaved in my own ancestry.
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Culley (Schweger) Schweger Bell
![]() Apr 5, 2021
Adding to African American profiles.
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Josh Richard
![]() Apr 1, 2021
I am interested in Black heritage and history.
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Elisa Mayfield
![]() Mar 28, 2021
Descendants of slaves and slave owners, Federal Writers’ Project United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, 1936–1938. Vol. 1-17
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Florence (Viau) Herrington
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Researching early AME ministers and their families from Philadelphia and Haiti.
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Marilyn Kenyon Psy.D.
![]() Mar 2, 2021
I have African DNA in my ancestry per 23andMe. I believe I may have identified the ancestor who was born in North Carolina in the 1700s.
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Randall Merriott
![]() Feb 18, 2021
Interested in tracing descendants of former slaves
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R Prather
![]() Feb 17, 2021
Researching my black ancestors
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Anonymous (Martin) Anonymous
![]() Jan 31, 2021
Project member
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Bartley McRorie
![]() Jan 3, 2021
Connecting my wife's family.
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Gene Ellison
![]() Jan 1, 2021
One of my staples is the heritage of those who originally were indigenous to the lands of Africa
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Candyce (Wright) Fulford
![]() Dec 10, 2020
My mother's line.
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Cooper Noland
![]() Dec 3, 2020
One step @ a time
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Elizabeth Meadows
![]() Nov 25, 2020
I have west African DNA in my genome and hope to find the name of my most recent ancestor from that region.
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Denise (Harden) Jarrett
![]() Oct 27, 2020
I am a member of the US Black Heritage project, but must not have had the correct tag.
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Mary Gossage
![]() Oct 16, 2020
Ancestors who were abolitionist and slave-holders, and seems there is a black ancestor or two from colonial times.
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Lucy (Wilson) Robinson
![]() Sep 24, 2020
Because we all come from Africa.
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K Raymoure
![]() Sep 22, 2020
White member of the US Black Heritage project.
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Holly Vaughan
![]() Sep 17, 2020
I am hoping to collaborate through DNA and the records of my family in researching the genealogies of black Americans.
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Connie Davis
![]() Sep 16, 2020
supporting sharing information for descendants of those who were enslaved
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Kelly (Sullivan) Rishor
![]() Sep 11, 2020
I'm passionate about Black History and civil rights.
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J (Kelley) Grohsmeyer
![]() Sep 6, 2020
researching families in Steuben County NY
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Jonathan Crowley
![]() Sep 2, 2020
I'm interested in investigating links in my genealogy to the legacy of US enslavement and African-American heritage.
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Buddy (Melvin) Deivert
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Looking for distant cousins and connections connections to Africa through Gedmatch. I have African DNA results, but don't know how accurate that is.
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Emily (Boy) Holmberg
![]() Aug 28, 2020
Interested in contributing to and following this project
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Jody Cleveland
![]() Aug 19, 2020
Helping my son in law with his black heritage
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De Anna Overcast
![]() Jul 28, 2020
My family is of mix heritage.
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T Stanton
![]() Jul 27, 2020
Interested in certain aspects of the Underground Railroad
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Amanda (Moyer) Torrey
![]() Jul 27, 2020
to follow my southern ancestors
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Porter Fann
![]() Jul 24, 2020
Proofs are incomplete, but Elizabeth Key, and her unknown mother, who had her by Joseph Key, may be direct ancestors.
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C Ryder
![]() Jul 16, 2020
A huge project with wonderful people involved
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W Robertson
![]() Jul 15, 2020
interested
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Lucy (Selvaggio) Selvaggio-Diaz
![]() Jul 13, 2020
Co-Coordinator of the US Black Heritage Project
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US Black Heritage Project WikiTree
![]() Jul 13, 2020
US Black Heritage Project
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Chet Snow
![]() Jul 11, 2020
I am interested in how our kaleidoscope country of so many different origins has related genealogically.
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Emma (McBeth) MacBeath M.Ed MSM
![]() Jul 10, 2020
The US Black Heritage Project's goal is to grow, connect, and honor family.
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Elaine (Weatherall) Martzen
![]() Jul 10, 2020
I am focusing on documenting enslaved people in Texas and Mississippi.
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Carolyn (Atkinson) Martin
![]() Jul 10, 2020
I am working on developing profiles for the African-American slaves who were interviewed for The Federal Writers' Project. Slave Narratives; A Folk History of Slavery in the United States.
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