According to Nicka Sewell-Smith, Ancestry’s Senior Story Producer and a genealogist, “The truth is, family history research can be challenging for African Americans because of U.S. slavery and ...

WILKERSON: Ebby is an African American young woman who's grown ... and - but we also begin to learn the stories of previous generations of the family and the story of that old stoneware jar ...

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