09/29/2026
Ancestry just released 4 million records of enslaved people from 20 former British Colonies. In this article, Nicka Sewell-Smith, a professional genealogist and senior story producer at Ancestry, said it was not lost on her that records originally created to count enslaved people as property were now being used by their descendants to reconstruct their family histories. If you do not have Ancestry, we have you covered. Stop by our Genealogy department and we can help you get setup on our Ancestry database for free, so you can start finding your people.
If you can bring your parents full names, date of birth, where they were born, Grandparents same information. The further back you can go the better your odds are to help grow your family tree.
Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad
