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Analysis Reveals Ancestry, Possible Descendants of Enslaved and Free African Americans

Analysis Reveals Ancestry, Possible Descendants of Enslaved and Free African Americans
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Historical DNA study connects living people t

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. ....

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