https://rss.com/podcasts/ask-the-griot I am Jeliba — griot, keeper of the line. For as long as there have been families, there have been those charged with remembering them. This is a place for the questions every seeker carries when they set out to find their people: Where do I begin? How do I cross the year 1870? What can the blood truly tell me — and what can it not? Each sitting takes one honest question of African American genealogy and answers it plainly, separating what the record documents from what memory carries, and honoring the ancestors without inventing crowns for them. Come sit. Bring your questions. The line is longer than you know.

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