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Use the GOOGLE search button below to type in a keyword (such as a surname, location or topic) so you don't have to scroll through everything. The search will yield results limited to the OBA website.
Shared Legacies
Listed in the navigation bar are surnames of African Americans who are seeking lost family connections as well as descendants of slaveholding families who are looking for descendants of the people
their ancestors enslaved.
Feel free to initiate contact if you or someone you know is connected. Names and email addresses for contacts are at the end of each section.
We will continue to add names as they are submitted.
If you would like to submit names, stories or other material, please send to smorgan@ourblackancestry.com
Resource
To learn more about families who have a shared legacy in slavery and are working to heal from the trauma:
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