"Michael Boulware Moore, president and CEO of the International African American Museum, added: “For the vast majority of African Americans, it is really difficult to go back ... to really dive into your family history, and we have in Toni and her team one of the most accomplished and pre-eminent resources around African-American genealogy, and so we really are just looking forward to empowering people to connect them with their past in a way that will just really clarify foundational questions around their identity: Who are you? Where do you come from? Who are your ancestors?”...
The center will be staffed by a team of experienced genealogists and historians to digitize records, present online research tutorials and produce scholarly articles. The center will be completely prepared to assist with DNA testing, including helping visitors choose a company to test with, all the way through to using the resources online, and eventually on-site, to interpret those DNA results for patrons to help them make the most of the testing. All the resources will be 100 percent free."
AMAZING :)
Also, Federal Government, in case you are reading, "reparations" could look like funding programs like this and contributing government records and resources that might currently be hard to access...
FB: This is so cool "The center is a national genealogy research center that’s dedicated to celebrating and researching African-American ancestry—with a focus on engaging in genealogy education, original research, community archiving and even assisting with DNA testing."
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