Tracing Our Roots Reclaiming Our Legacy: An Essential Guide to African American Genealogy
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Dive deep into the fascinating world of genealogy with our Genealogy Workbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Tracing Your Family History. This 161-page workbook is meticulously crafted to guide you through every step of uncovering your family’s roots. From basic pedigree charts to advanced genetic genealogy, this workbook is an invaluable resource for both beginners and seasoned researchers. Each section is designed to help you document and preserve your family’s legacy with precision and care.
Description
A step-by-step guide written for people who have been told their history begins at slavery.
African American genealogy is unlike any other research. The archive was deliberately disrupted — records destroyed, names erased, families separated. And yet the traces remain. Tracing Our Roots, Reclaiming Our Legacy teaches you how to find them, document them, preserve them, and pass them forward. Written by an archivist and genealogist who spent 20 years tracing her own ancestry back to Sierra Leone.
What’s inside
Starting Your Research
Where to begin, what documents to gather first, and how to build a research foundation that holds up as you go deeper.
Crossing the 1870 Brick Wall
The strategies that actually work for tracing African American ancestry before emancipation — Freedmen’s Bureau, estate records, oral history, and more.
DNA Genealogy
How to use AncestryDNA, 23andMe, and other tests to find DNA cousins, identify ethnic origins, and build a paper trail from your results.
Digitizing Your Family Archive
How to scan, organize, and preserve physical documents, photos, and records — so the next generation doesn’t lose what you found.
Heritage Travel to West Africa
Planning a meaningful heritage journey — what to expect, how to prepare, what questions to ask, and how to bring your research with you.
Sharing Your Family History
How to turn your research into a family narrative — written, digital, or a reunion presentation — that your whole family can hold onto.
What makes this book different
Written from lived experience
The author traced her own ancestry to Sierra Leone, obtained dual citizenship, and built a compound in a Temne village. This is not theory — it is a map.
Worksheets and templates included
Fillable research worksheets are built into the book — covering DNA logs, family group records, travel planning, archival collection, and more.
Culturally grounded
Written specifically for African American researchers navigating the unique challenges of a deliberately disrupted archive — with care, dignity, and accuracy.
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