African, Native, and Afro-Indigenous Blogs/Podcasts

African-American Genealogy, African-American DNA Blogs, and Genealogy Podcasts

Echoes of My Nola Past
Claiming Kin
Conversations With My Ancestors
Georgia Black Crackers
In Honor of My Ancestors
My Elusive Kin
Our Alabama Roots
Spence-Lowry Family History
Taneya’s Genealogy Blog
Tracing Their Footsteps
All Roads Lead to California
Ike Ivery Family
Terrence Garnett’s Family Research
Finding Eliza
Connected By Blood
They Came From Virginia
Caddo Trees
Mississippi Ancestors
A Journey to the Past
Interlocked & Interwoven
Cecelia’s Dig
Walking In Irene’s Shoes
The Middlebrooks Of Meriwether County
A Home In Missouri
Mysteries Of My Ancestors
My True Roots
Back Porch Reminiscing
Arterberry-King-Pinkney-Ritchardson Genealogy
Moon-Jackson Army
Pieces of Me
Between the Gate Posts
J-Macs Journey
Daniels Is My Name…
The TALIAFERRO Project
LUKASA
Our Family As A Whole
Eastern Shore’s Africans, Melungeons and Native Americans
Their Child
Ruby’s Granddaughter
Honoring Our History
Voices Inside My Head
The Southern Root
Where Art Thou?
How Did I Get Here?
Tracey’s Trees
Pressing My Way
Honoring My Great Uncle
Breaking Down the Walls
Legacy: The Gift of a Proud Heritage
Tyson Family Roots
My Family Our History
Jewells In Dem Kentucky Hills
Womack/McRae Connection
Rooted In You
Moving Forward Backwards
Answering the Ancestors Call
Ancient Echoes from the Past
Tracing My Peters Ancestry
Shinault Family Genealogyj
Our Alabama & Georgia Ancestors
RootStories and More
Wilson DNA
My Genealogy Quest
Tracing Amy: My Ancestral Journey
The Ancestors Have Spoken
A Rich Legacy Revealed
Tracing Gardner’s Footprints
Geechee Moe’s Ancestry
Ancestors In The Present
Retrograde Bloodlines
Railroads & Cotton
Alabama Heritage: Green, Wilson & Related
Slave Families : Blount, West & Related
Stones Rainbows and Doves
The Stewarts of Williamsport
Yancey to Yancy
Georgia On My Mind: Milledgeville’s Borgus & Lewis Family
Scuffalong: Genealogy
North Carolina Free People of Color (NCFPC)
Getting to the Roots of the Problem
Gathering Family Untangling Roots
Bernice Bennett/Research at the National Archives and Beyond
Mississippi Rooted
Roots Revealed
Mariah’s Zepher
Babilonia Family History
Latino Genealogy and Beyond
Roots & Recombinant DNA
Family Tree Girl
Find Your Folks
My Ancestor’s Name
African Roots Podcast
Who is Nicka Smith?
Tracing African Roots
Cumbo Family
Native American Roots
Kinfolk Detective
Marich4
Colonial Soul
Into the Light
Ancestor Calling: Georgia and Mississippi Roots
Rooted in Purpose
Our Ancestors Revealed
Diaspora Genealogy
My TX/LA Roots
Long Legacies
Christine’s Genealogy Website
Peonage Detective
Carolina Kindred
Black and Red Journal
What was Christiaan’s Name/ Hoe heette Christiaan?
Kin Connector
Sankofa Sessions
Continental And Diasporic African Genetic Genealogy
The African-Native American Genealogy Blog

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Marsha Gilliam says:

September 16, 2016 at 4:33 PM

Thanks for sharing this blog site. My blog link is https://marich4.wordpress.com

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R. Waters Calloway says:

October 20, 2016 at 12:41 PM

Truly exhilarating to see so much research, study and African Ancestored Ancestories.

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Ellen Fernandez-Sacco says:

August 21, 2017 at 11:03 AM

Great list! Thanks for sharing!

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Allum says:

January 18, 2020 at 2:36 PM

Wow – i didn’t know my blog was listed. Thanks! from Allum of Spence-Lowry Family History

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mkeigher says:

September 13, 2021 at 5:54 PM

Incredible list!

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About Me

BlueSky: @rrbbgenealogy.bsky.social
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I have been researching my family history/genealogy for almost 20 years. However, it wasn’t until 2010 that I began to research my family history in depth using a combination of traditional genealogy as well as genetic genealogy. I have been able to trace several of my maternal mixed-race lines back to colonial New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Virginia. The ethnic admixture of these lines is a mix of West African, Malagasy, Native American and European people and represent some of the earliest settlers in this country along with Native Americans who have always been here. It has always been my goal to document my family history the way it was experienced by my ancestors. My research specialties include both African-American and Puerto Rican Genealogy in general, Slavery and Free Blacks in the Northeast, the Afro-Dutch Cultural Legacy in NY and NJ, the NY-Madagascar Slave Trade in the Late 1600-Early 1700s, the Historical Importance of Native and African American Burial Grounds, the maritime trade (1627-1900 )as it relates to Indigenous and African people, as well as Genetic Genealogy.

I have Bachelors Degrees in Anthropology and Asian Studies from Bowdoin College and previously worked as an adjunct professor in Cultural Anthropology while attending CUNY Graduate School and University Center’s doctoral program in Anthropology. My background in cultural anthropology has helped me research my ancestral roots. I started my blog to share my genealogy research on both my maternal mixed race African-American side as well as my Puerto Rican paternal side.

I am a proud member of the New Jersey, New York, and New England Chapters of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (AAGHS) and a former BlackProGen LIVE! panelist. I am also the co-administrator of FamilyTree DNA’s Malagasy Roots Project along with CeCe Moore of PBS’s Finding Your Roots since 2014. I am currently writing a book, The DNA Trail from Madagascar to the Americas, based on more than a decade’s worth of research. My book will detail the benefits of using genetic genealogy, along with traditional genealogy, to uncover hidden histories of our ancestors.

For almost thirty years, I have given talks at public libraries in the Greater NY/NJ/CT area, as well as local genealogy groups, and have worked with past and present Rutgers University professors (i.e., Professor Emeritus Junius Wilson, now City of Newark Historian, professor Anita Bakshi, and Professor Jack Tchen). In addition, I work with multiple public history projects like The Witness Stones Project (https://witnessstonesproject.org/), Finding Ceremony (https://findingceremony.com/), Our Land, Our Stories (https://our-land-our-stories.libraries.rutgers.edu/) and The Public History Project (https://www.publichistoryproject.org/).

In April 2024, I was inducted into the Manhattan Chapter if DAR based on my 5X great-grandfather, Black Patriot Samuel Freeman, service in the American Revolution. He was one of many ancestors, including another Black Loyalist 5X great-grandfather Anthony Piggott, who also fought for freedom, justice, equality and humanity for all. In 2026, I will also be publishing my book, Our Indigenous, African, and Afro-Indigenous Revolutionary War Ancestors to commemorate both the 250th anniversary of The United States of America and the 400th anniversary of our continued survival and resistance to settler colonialism.

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Musings on My Tri-racial Black and Puerto Rican Ancestry.

African, Native, and Afro-Indigenous Blogs/Podcasts

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