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	Our mission is to rediscover precious records that document the names and lives of former slaves, freedpersons and their descendants, and share those records on this free Internet site.   SEARCH   NEWS Our Quicksearch engine gets you the information you need, well, quick! Click Here for our quick search form. Africana Heritage has been named one of Family Tree Magazine's 101 best undiscovered family history Web sites in the August 2005 issue of Family Tree Magazine, which is now going out to subscribers and goes on sale at newsstands nationwide on Tuesday, June 21 Africana Heritage has received the DynasTree top 50 Genealogy Websites award for 2009. Africanaheritage.com has been selected to receive the "One Great Genealogy Site" award for the services you are providing to the genealogy community 5/21/2009 Footnote.com Launches Application on FacebookŪ 5/2/2009 W.E.B. Du Bois Collection Goes Digital 12/6/2008 "Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database" Unveiled: Access is Free to Public	AfriQuest, the Free, Online Database for African American Genealogy, is Now Live! WeRelate and the USF Africana Heritage Project announce the launch of AfriQuest (www.afriquest.com), a free, central Internet database for records of African and African American genealogy and history. Please read the full text message. Lowcountry Africana and South Carolina Department of Archives and History to Digitize SC Records Lowcountry Africana and The South Carolina Department of Archives and History today announced plans to digitize and publish freely online more than 25,000 historic documents of interest to researchers of African American genealogy and history. Under the new agreement, Colonial and Charleston, South Carolina estate inventories dated 1732-1867 will be digitized and indexed in detail, including the names of more than 30,000 slaves. Inventories of estates in early South Carolina Please read the full text message. Featured Excerpt: Pieces of the Quilt: The Mosaic of An African American Family, by Anita Wills Anita Wills' second book, Pieces of the Quilt: The Mosaic of An African American Family is a Non-Fiction Narrative of African American History. One of the ancestors chronicled in Pieces of the Quilt, is Great-Great Grandmother Leah Ruth-Warner, who was born in Guinea West Africa, in 1818. Please read the full text message. Join our mailing list for the latest information and news.

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