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SAVING THE DNA OF AFRICANS

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  AI-GENERATED IMAGE The main goal of this article is to highlight the importance of Africans' contribution to the expansion of humanity's genetic archive. Today, people from all walks of life are coming together for this purpose. While some individuals consider family history research as a personal decision, others feel compelled by an unknown force to explore their ancestry. For me, it is a divine and eternal task. Ancestors of all races, who are buried in their graves, are overjoyed when their DNA and history are saved, connecting them to their living descendants. The love we have for ourselves today is the same love that our deceased family members have for us in the spirit world. Those who are alive today will also be proud of their descendants who continue to preserve their family tree. The dead are honored and happy when they are remembered and linked to the living.  I urge those concerned to make a conscious effort to contribute to saving the DNA of Africans. This can ...
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ROAD MAP TO FINDING AN ANCESTOR IN AFRICA

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                                                         Searching Africa (Ai generated image ) African Genealogy Expert/Writer John Peter-Brown (Cape Coast Genealogist) johnpeterbrown@ymail.com In genealogical research, methodological approaches can vary in different places. Finding an ancestor in Africa will require a completely different approach from methodologies that work elsewhere due to reasons elaborated in AFRICAN GENEALOGY. In my volunteering role as Africa online genealogy specialist for FamilySearch, I can identify clients who seek their ancestry in Africa in four groups: The first group includes African Americans and Africans abroad who discover their specific African ethnicity through advanced lineage tracing methods such as DNA. The next group encompasses those who recently migrated from Africa with their extended families sti...
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                                                          AFRICAN GENEALOGY Typical African family group photo (1898) Cape Coast Current State of African Genealogy Professional genealogists like me have only recently begun to emerge from Africa. This is not the same with other parts of the world such as the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Scandinavia just to mention a few.  The challenge with the current state of African genealogy includes: Lack of awareness concerning problems genealogy can solve Lack of government support to make genealogical records           available to the Public Digitization issues Education Unskilled use of Technology African genealogy is in the gathering stage. FamilySearch is the leading genealogical company, if not the only one actively gathering oral genealogies and digitiz...
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