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Black Ancestries offers professional genealogy research, engaging presentations, and educational workshops to help people of African descent uncover their roots, celebrate their heritage, and preserve their family legacy.

07/25/2026

Today, we’re celebrating a special connection across generations for our founder, Andre Kearns.

Andre and his great-grandfather, Andrew Breither Kerns, share the same birthday: July 24. Andrew was born in 1893, exactly 133 years ago today.

Connections like this are one reason Andre founded Black Ancestries. Family history reminds us that the people who came before us are not simply names and dates. Their stories remain part of who we are.

Same birthday. Four generations apart. Forever connected.

At Black Ancestries, we help families uncover, celebrate, and preserve the stories that connect generations.

07/04/2026

Happy Fourth of July from Black Ancestries! As America commemorates 250 years, remember that our nation's story begins with yours. Honor the ancestors whose courage, sacrifice, and perseverance shaped your family's journey. America250 begins with your family story.

04/28/2026

Andre Kearns, Founder and CEO of Black Ancestries , has been appointed Vice President, National Genealogical Society Board of Directors. This role reflects a deep commitment to uncovering, preserving, and elevating family history, while helping build a more inclusive genealogical community.

Read the announcement: https://upfront.ngsgenealogy.org/

04/03/2026

Have you ever wondered how far back your family story goes?

At RootsTech 2026, we sat down with Andre Kearns to talk about genealogy, DNA, and how new technology is helping people uncover ancestors whose stories were nearly lost to history.

Andre shares how a simple family reunion project turned into a 20-year journey into family history.

🎧 Listen to the latest episode of Journey Through the Generations now.

👇 Tell us in the comments: What’s the most surprising thing you’ve discovered about your family history?

01/19/2026

At the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial this morning, remembering that the dream was born from ancestry. Dr. King carried generations with him. So do we. Our histories aren’t behind us. They live in us.

Andre Kearns

01/08/2026

As we enter 2026, this family story uncovered by Black Ancestries is a powerful way to begin our commemoration. Tracing my Morehouse College classmate Imani Moody's remarkable lineage from a Black Revolutionary War Patriot to a Civil Rights Freedom Rider shows that freedom is not free!
Read the full story: https://medium.com/.../america250-freedom-in-the-blood...

01/01/2026

Happy New Year from Black Ancestries!

We recently visited the American Ancestors Family Heritage Experience in Boston, the foyer where Henry Louis Gates Jr. films Finding Your Roots. Standing there reminded us of what inspires our work: turning history into powerful family reveals.

Here’s to Black Ancestries uncovering, celebrating, and preserving your story, and hopefully delivering your family history reveal in 2026!

12/29/2025

Over thirty years ago, I was a student at the Atlanta University Center (Morehouse College) walking the same grounds where W. E. B. Du Bois once taught, wrote, and shaped generations of Black intellectual life.

Twenty-six years ago, as a Harvard Business School student, I traveled to Ghana and stood at Du Bois’s final resting place—reflecting on a life committed to truth, dignity, and Pan-African possibility.

This week, after spending the holidays in the Berkshires with family, I found myself in Great Barrington, his birthplace. As I brushed snow from the historical markers so I could read them, I felt a deep sense of gratitude and inspiration, grounded in the extraordinary life and enduring legacy of a man who insisted that history matters, and that knowing who we are shapes who we can become.

At Black Ancestries, this is the work we do every day: uncovering, celebrating, and preserving the stories that anchor us, so legacy is not lost to time, silence, or snowfall.

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