some members of the United States Congress and three proud members of America’s first Black family. “Wanda Tucker of Hamilton [Hampton], Virginia. Wanda, are you there?” President Biden said ...

One potential obstacle to tracing African-American lineage is slavery, an institution that broke family bonds and made record keeping nearly impossible. Because African-American slaves were ...

According to Nicka Sewell-Smith, Ancestry’s Senior Story Producer and a genealogist, “The truth is, family history research can be challenging for African Americans because of U.S. slavery and ...