Black genealogists’ surprising findings using Ancestry’s digitized U.S. Freedmen’s records
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on October 11, 2021
Regina Vaughn has been painstakingly tracing her family legacy dating back to slavery to keep a vow she made to her late mother more than a decade ago.
She has spent countless hours, day, night, weekends, sometimes holidays through weary and watery eyes from all of the tears while attempting to uncover her lineage, primarily through written documents and files on microfilm.
The retired Philadelphia public schools teacher has lost count of how many miles she's flown – to places as far as Cameroon, West Africa, or driven up and down the tobacco roads to . . .
