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...