The Journal
Guides, methods, and reconnection stories from our research across the continent.
Church registers, colonial archives, land records, living memory — a field guide to the sources African research depends on.
Patronymics, day-names, praise names and clan names carry information that Western pedigree charts quietly discard.
Done well, oral testimony is evidence — not anecdote. Here is how we gather it and weigh it against the record.
For firms and fiduciaries: how on-the-ground research resolves heirship when the estate is abroad and the family isn't.
If your family story goes quiet at the Atlantic, these are the first threads we pull to pick it back up.
DNA points to regions and relatives. Connecting it to a name, a village, and a generation still takes documents and fieldwork.
