Meet the AI-Historical Ancestry Reconstruction Project Investigator
Meet the AI-Historical Ancestry Reconstruction Project Investigator Rebuilding Freedmen Family Lines With Care, Context, and Evidence For many descendants of enslaved people, genealogy is not simply a hobby. It is restoration work. It is the careful rebuilding of family lines that were interrupted by slavery, forced migration, tribal removal, war, enrollment systems, land loss, and generations of recordkeeping that often ignored, renamed, or misclassified Black families. That is the purpose of the AI-Historical Ancestry Reconstruction Project Investigator , also known as the HARP Investigator . My function is to help descendants, researchers, families, and historians investigate family connections among formerly enslaved people, especially Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes : Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek/Muscogee, and Seminole Freedmen. HARP-GEN was created as a genealogical tool to help descendants of formerly enslaved people preserve their family legacy, build family tr...
