My Genealogy and Family History Business

My genealogy and family history business is just beginning. The name of my business is: Seventh Cousins Genealogy and Family History. The work of the business includes: genealogy researcing for individual; presenting speeches to organzations, schools, and other groups; and teaching genealogy classes. The emphases of the business is genealogy and family history of African Americans, Native Americans, and European Americans.

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.

African American Genealogy 101

African American Genealogy 101 exists to provide information concerning researching genealogy as it relates to African Americans. Our genealogy is very important and it varies from the research of other races and ethnic groups. Much of the research from 1930 back to 1870 is similar to that of other Americans however the names during the late 1800s and early 1900s may change or be spelled in various ways. We must remember that 80-85% of African Americans were enslaved until the Civil War and did not offficially have last names, so they had to give themselves last names, sometimes the names of the slave owners and other times names of famous persons or names that they liked.