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The House Judiciary Committee Hearing’s session on Reparations (H.R. 40 and the Path to Restorative Justice) [live video & on-demand video]

19/06/2019
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Washington, D.C. – On June 19th at 10:00 a.m., the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties’ hearing on H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and…

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Robert E Lee, slavery, and 1859: The Spring of his Discontent

08/05/2019
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Ghosts in the DNA: The lost diversity of early colonial Virginia

23/07/2018
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This story has barely been told: Diversity, Multiculturalism & Africans in pre-British colonial America

20/08/2017
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Visiting Monticello

04/08/2017
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Top Articles

Clash of the titans: Ancestry.com vs FamilySearch.org. And the winner is...?
In search of my Jewish great-grandfather
Gedmatch's HarappaWorld admixture test answers my West African results question
Gedmatch's Dodecad DNA analysis and African DNA results
Discovering Pocahontas: A family surprise
How the term 'Bantu' tripped up my genetic genealogy journey
Finding Reuben Byrd: free person of color & an American Revolutionary War veteran
Genealogy challenge: Researching the 45 enslaved children of Moses Williams (Old Ninety-Six,  SC)

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Cracking genetic genealogy cold cases with incorrect AncestryDNA ThruLines

08/01/2020
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Happy New Year from the Genealogy Adventures team! My apologies for the lack of articles over the past few months. The past 12 weeks have seen me beavering away on…

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S03 E08: Should descendants of enslaved Africans pay to access genealogical databases?

11/11/2019
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Using the right DNA testing tool to answer the right ancestry question

22/10/2019
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Genealogy Adventures: Our Everyday European, Native, and African-descended research resources (pdf)

22/10/2019
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S03 E04: Reparational Genealogy with Carolynn Ni Lochlainn (on-demand streaming)

14/10/2019
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Brick Wall Strategies

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Cracking genetic genealogy cold cases with incorrect AncestryDNA ThruLines

08/01/2020
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Happy New Year from the Genealogy Adventures team! My apologies for the lack of articles over the past few months. The past 12 weeks have seen me beavering away on…

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S03 E07: Research Trees for Specific Genealogy Goals

04/11/2019
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Genealogy Adventures: Our Everyday European, Native, and African-descended research resources (pdf)

22/10/2019
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Adapting the Beyond Kin approach + cluster genealogy to research poorly documented ancestors

06/09/2019
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Using Google Books In Your Genealogy Research

26/05/2019
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Enslaved Research Strategies

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Cracking genetic genealogy cold cases with incorrect AncestryDNA ThruLines

08/01/2020
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Happy New Year from the Genealogy Adventures team! My apologies for the lack of articles over the past few months. The past 12 weeks have seen me beavering away on…

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S03 E11: Puerto Rican & Caribbean Island Genealogy

09/12/2019
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S03 E07: Research Trees for Specific Genealogy Goals

04/11/2019
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Genealogy Adventures: Our Everyday European, Native, and African-descended research resources (pdf)

22/10/2019
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GA S03 E03: Scotchtown: Enslaved family genealogy research with Jennifer Hurst-Wender & Andi Cumbo-Floyd

07/10/2019
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Cracking genetic genealogy cold cases with incorrect AncestryDNA ThruLines

08/01/2020
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Happy New Year from the Genealogy Adventures team! My apologies for the lack of articles over the past few months. The past 12 weeks have seen me beavering away on…

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S03 E11: Puerto Rican & Caribbean Island Genealogy

09/12/2019
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In Her Own Words: The Rosa Parks exhibition at the Library of Congress

05/12/2019
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The full estate inventories for Governor Arthur Middleton of South Carolina, circa (1737) & grandson Arthur Middleton (1797)

18/11/2019
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S03 E08: Should descendants of enslaved Africans pay to access genealogical databases?

11/11/2019
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DNA & Genetics

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Cracking genetic genealogy cold cases with incorrect AncestryDNA ThruLines

08/01/2020
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Happy New Year from the Genealogy Adventures team! My apologies for the lack of articles over the past few months. The past 12 weeks have seen me beavering away on…

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Free report: Best DNA Testing Companies Based on In-Depth Reviews

23/10/2019
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Consumers Advocate – a small organization that researches with the intention to help – has just published an in-depth and very thorough report comparing the major commercial DNA testing companies.…

Race & Diversity

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Cracking genetic genealogy cold cases with incorrect AncestryDNA ThruLines

08/01/2020
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Happy New Year from the Genealogy Adventures team! My apologies for the lack of articles over the past few months. The past 12 weeks have seen me beavering away on…

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Live Online Genealogy Q&A Session this Sunday at 4pm

10/12/2019
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This is your chance to ask that genealogical research question you’ve been eager to ask! See you this Sunday at 4pm EST via https://www.facebook.com/genealogyadventuresusa

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S03 E11: Puerto Rican & Caribbean Island Genealogy

09/12/2019
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Chances, if you’re a person of color, you’ve looked at your DNA results and spotted a connection to Puerto Rico or a Caribbean island. You may have thought: “How do…

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In Her Own Words: The Rosa Parks exhibition at the Library of Congress

05/12/2019
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The Rosa Parks “In Her Own Words” exhibition at the Library of Congress is a powerful and moving exhibition. There was more to her than I ever knew. For instance,…

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