African American History
Online resources and research tools
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Genealogy Resources
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African Ancestry | AfricanAncestry.com: Discover your
African roots with the world leader in DNA testing for
tracing African lineages. With an extensive database of
indigenous African DNA samples, African Ancestry can
determine specific countries and ethnic groups.
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Finding Black family history with Ancestry.com - Discover
your origins from over 1,500 regions around the world -
including 13 distinct regions across Africa and over 90
African American and Afro-Caribbean communities.
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Map My Cousins: Many of the DNA tests offer Ethnicity
Estimates showing where your family came from on a world
map based on your DNA. If you’ve done your own Family
Tree in any of the popular software packages on the market,
you can check how accurate these estimates are using the
Cousins Club Map My Cousins application. This uses your
ancestors information from your family tree to show on a
world map where they were born, lived and died. You can
filter by generation, see migration patterns and more. This is
a useful comparison against the ethnicity estimates and can
also give you some good ideas for future research on where
your family is from.