Ancestry Search Websites

  • Website: https://africanancestry.com/

    Founded in 2003 by Dr. Rick Kittles and Gina Paige, African Ancestry is the world leader in tracing maternal and paternal lineages of African descent having helped more than 1,000,000 people re-connect with the roots of their family tree.

  • Website: https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2721171

    "United States Freedmen's Bureau, Records of Freedmen, 1865-1872." Database with images. FamilySearch. https://FamilySearch.org : 18 July 2022. Citing multiple NARA microfilm publications. Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1861 - 1880, RG 105. (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1969-1978).

  • Website: https://Ancestry.com

    Over the past two decades, Ancestry® has invested over $300 million to build the world’s largest, most distinguished collection of family history records, and we’re continuing to invest in new content collections globally.

  • Document Link: https://www.archives.gov/files/calendar/genealogy-fair/2018/2-kluskens-handout.pdf

    The National Archives and Records Administration, as the custodian of the permanently valuable records of the U.S. Federal Government, holds a wide variety of records that may help African Americans identify slave holders and ancestors who were enslaved before 1865. This presentation highlights some of those records.

  • Website: https://lowcountryafricana.com/

    Lowcountry Africana, sponsored by the Magnolia Plantation Foundation of Charleston, South Carolina, is a free website dedicated to African American genealogy and history in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, home to the rich Gullah-Geechee cultural heritage.

Search your family’s history beginning in Africa and throughout United States history with these recommended ancestry search websites. Comprehensive Reparations encourages ancestry research but does not make extensive genealogical background searches prerequisites for reparations in Black communities. Ancestry searches are different for every person and family and often requires significant time, resources, or money. These websites are great resources to help you and your loved ones get started.