Tracing the Enslaved to Modern Descendants harvardmagazine.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from harvardmagazine.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Analysis Reveals Ancestry, Possible Descendants of Enslaved and Free African Americans webwire.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from webwire.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A first-of-its-kind analysis of historical DNA ties tens of thousands of living people to enslaved and free African Americans who labored at an iron forge in Maryland known as Catoctin Furnace soon after the founding of the United States.
The study, spurred by groups seeking to restore ancestry knowledge to African American communities, provides a new way to complement genealogical, historical, bioarchaeological, and biochemical efforts to reconstruct the life histories of people omitted from written records and identify their present-day relatives.
A landmark study opens a new possible way for Black Americans to trace their ancestry wunc.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wunc.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.