cont. African American Genealogy 101

It is important to know when doing genealogical research that most African Americans whose ancestors were in the United States when slavery ended are at least 7th cousins. During the early years of U.S. history approximately 400,000-600,000 Africans were brought to the United States as slaves. Only about one-half (or 200,000-300,000) of those enslaved Africans ever had children. So most African Americans are possibly 7th cousins. During the enslavement era most (or 90%) of the African Americans were enslaved and most lived in the southern part of the United States.