Kenyatta Berry, genealogist on the TV show, “Genealogy Roadshow,” was a keynote speaker at the Northwest Regional Genealogy Conference last August in Arlington. One project that involves her is very near and dear to her heart: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has “information on almost 36,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries.”

If this points to your ancestry, go have a looksee. Included on this website is a database “identifying 91,491 Africans taken from captured slave ships or from African trading sites.” Your ancestor’s name might just be there.