"empowering our future by honoring our past"
Our Black Ancestry is on a mission to find and and make available information and services that help people explore and appreciate African American family history. We honor the past as a platform for building the future -- contributing to an African American legacy, not just of names, dates and places, but of family values.
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Tutorial
An article that helps novice family historians get started
Research Links
Links to websites that offer information pertinent to family history
Surnames
List of counties with names of slaveholders
includes names of people who were enslaved

The Founder of Our Black Ancestry
The founder, webmaster and historian for Our Black Ancestry is Sharon Leslie Morgan.
She is a communications consultant, writer and PR "legend"
who has been a family researcher for more than 30 years.
Her personal family research is concentrated in Noxubee County Mississippi and Lowndes County Alabama.BIG NEWS!
Sharon Leslie Morgan and Thomas Norman DeWolf
are co-authoring a book entitled
Gather at the Table: Steps Toward a Post-Racial America
to be published by Beacon Press in 2012.Follow our progress
www.wegatt.wordpress.com
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