March 15, 2025
Analysis Reveals Ancestry, Possible Descendants of Enslaved and Free African Americans

Using a new genetic approach, scientists connected nearly 42,000 people living today to 27 African Americans who were buried near a Maryland ironworks in the late 18th–early 19th centuries. The analysis, conducted by researchers from the� Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History,� Harvard University, the� Catoctin Furnace Historical Society �and 23andMe…
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