Participants were delighted with the access to the church’s family history room – a library holding more than 20,000 research books of historical records and maps within its exposed brick walls.

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On Saturday, the church invited African Americans in the region to view those records, offering workshops and guidance on how to sort through dusty documents and online databases to uncover more about their ancestors.

As part of its fourth annual seminar, the church offered scores of probate, land transfer and bank records, along with slave transaction records, to African Americans, a group whose documented ties to ancestors were muddied by more than two centuries of slavery in America.

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