This archive is kept for the family first — so that a grandchild can find a name and know where it came from — but it is kept to a standard a researcher can check. Nothing here is asserted without a record behind it, and where the record ends, the page says so.
This history includes slavery, captivity, and forced deportation. Those facts are recorded plainly, in the same structure used for every other ancestor.
Every date, place, and relationship on this site is attached to a record that can be requested, ordered, or read on a microfilm reel. Where a claim rests only on another family tree, it is not published here as fact.
The registers do not name most African homelands, and they rarely record the parents of captive Native women. Where the record is silent, the site says so plainly instead of substituting a plausible guess.
When two sources disagree, both are shown, the preferred reading is explained, and the disagreement is marked as held. A conflict is only closed when a record settles it.
Heritage shares are calculated from documented ancestral lines, with unresolved lines counted as untraced. They are an estimate of documented ancestry, not a DNA result and not an identity claim.
Enslaved, Native, and Romani ancestors receive the same profile structure as everyone else: a name, a chronology, and sources. No one in this family is summarised by the condition imposed on them.