By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated June 13, 2024
Ancestry.com is using artificial intelligence (AI) to help BlackAmericans trace their family trees. The genealogy company has released a new collection of searchable newspaper articles containing information about formerly enslaved people in the U.S. The collection includes tens of thousands of newspaper records from the 1800s.
This free-access database aims to assist Black Americans in uncovering their familial histories. Utilizing AI, the tool scours newspaper records