Surging Interest in African American Genealogy
Surging Interest in African American Genealogy
Here Are Resources in Kansas City to Get Started Share this story Published February 18th, 2021 at 6:00 AM Above image credit: The Midwest Afro-American Genealogical Interest Coalition holds monthly meetings and members go on yearly road trips of historical significance. Here is the group at the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
in Topeka. (Contributed | Midwest Afro-American Genealogical Interest Coalition)
A family reunion in 2008 first sparked Wayne Reed’s interest in genealogy.
But it was a move in 2013 to Kansas City that gave Reed the resources that fired his resolve to learn more. Reed’s efforts since have produced a family tree with one branch reaching back to 1824.