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Are you a Black American who needs help with your family tree?

Disclaimer: I am currently a member of the Family Builders team.

The US Black Heritage (USBH) project on WikiTree has a program called Family Builders for Black Americans who need help building a tree from scratch or help extending a tree. Please read the information page carefully. The request form is also on the page.

Things to remember:

  1. This program is meant for people whose ancestors have been in the US for several generations.
  2. You must provide enough information for a researcher to be able to identify people in at least the 1950 US Census.
  3. The researcher will generally only go back to your 2nd-great-grandparents (if the information is available).
  4. You should create a WikiTree account before filling out the request form.

I can personally vouch for the usefulness of this program as an applicant. When I was first starting out with genealogy research back in 2021 I submitted a request to have someone help me with my tree. Ambar did an amazing job and taught me a lot of skills that I now use when working on other people’s trees.

I’ll create a post soon that goes into detail about my process when creating profiles.

Miyako

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