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Mormons & African Genealogy

Church Making Strides Preserving African Family Histories

Salt Lake City | Saturday, 8 February 2014 00:00:00 -0700 | Genealogy experts are experiencing a race against time in Sub-Saharan Africa, an area that spans 36 countries. There is an urgency to collect oral interviews of African genealogy because family historians are aging and some are dying before those family histories can be recorded.
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Genealogy African and Mormons

Historic Freedmen's Bureau Project Completed

FamilySearch has announced completion of the Freedmen’s Bureau Project, indexing the names of millions of African Americans collected directly following emancipation. Ref. Source 7q.