Mo. City library holds African-American genealogy program

Researching African-American family histories often presents special challenges due to the enslavement of Black people in America. The way families were ripped apart willie-nillie by kidnappers and human traffickers, casually labeled by many historians as “plantation owners,” presents Blacks who want to find their “people” with tremendous hurdles. So too does the spotty record-keeping on Black lives during enslavement, which is way more challenging to navigate when venturing past 1870.