Introducing: Find My People™

Let’s be honest. These days, there are plenty of people who don’t want organizations like Kinfolkology to exist. Why?

Because we believe we have a responsibility to reckon with the past and its legacies. Because we support descendants’ demands for justice and redress. And because we can and will do this work no matter what.

Besides, we don’t just say slavery was a crime against humanity. We offer up the evidence. (That’s what our databases are.)

But this work is not easy. It requires time, expertise, and resources. It requires funding. Now, some people think we should solve this problem by putting our databases behind a paywall. But that’s not an option. We will not monetize data about ancestors who were monetized in life. Nor will we charge descendants for information that should be theirs in the first place.

That said, we gotta pay these bills somehow. So, please allow us to introduce: Find My People™.

What is Find My People™?

Find My People is us realizing that while we absolutely believe in Kinfolkology’s mission to make information about enslaved ancestors freely accessible to descendants, some folks would rather not spend their time searching through databases. And that’s okay. We don’t blame them. This is tedious and heavy work.

What we mean is that some people would rather just hire us to seek out information about their ancestors for them--to look not just in our databases, but anywhere and everywhere that information can be found.

And why not? We’re pretty good at this.

So, that’s what Find My People™ offers: comprehensive research by a professional historian of your family’s history. But that’s not all. Find My People™ offers something else, too. Find My People™ designs and builds custom family history websites.

These sites can be totally public or totally private. If it’s your site--your family history--then it’s up to you. (That’s the point.) But know this: One hundred percent of Find My People’s profit will go toward supporting Kinfolkology’s work and mission. And, Kinfolkology’s databases and workshops are and will remain free and accessible to all. That’s a promise Find My People™ will help us keep.