Get into the latest release of 400+ DNA Communities that are specific to Black folks in the US and the Caribbean at @Ancestry! And y’all, those of us researching in Louisiana and Mississippi are WINNING with this update. 🥰 One of the communities I have, Eastern Louisiana & Mississippi Border African Americans, maps the exact location of where my Trask 250 ancestors were enslaved and where their descendants migrated to. It’s THAT specific.

The #Trask250 project has now hit 8,000+ descendants.

This means that 8,000+ people can trace their ancestry to a network of plantation communities in Wilkinson County, MS, Concordia and Pointe Coupee Parishes in LA that were controlled by the Carter, Trask, and Ventress fams Records of enslaved ancestors start as early as 1806, ancestor birth years are prior to 1776, and most of the elders were born in Africa having survived the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Y'all. Today is a holiday, just in case you didn't know it.

As of this morning, @Ancestry has made the records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (Freedmen's Bureau) available in the world's largest digitized and searchable format. #genealogy More than 3.5 million records, that document our ancestors in the early days of the freedom, are now available on the site...AND IT'S FREE TO ACCESS THEM.

It has been one of the most defining moments of my life to be part of the process to make this a reality.