# @kqed on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CI1NAvBBsfA
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/8395124-kqed-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-12-15T20:10:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** KQED (@KQED) — https://gondola.cc/KQED

## Caption

"If you ask well-known genealogists to research a Black person's family history, they might almost freeze up and tell you that it's impossible and it's not, it's not impossible."⁣
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You might call Alex Trapps-Chabala somewhat of a family tree detective. When he saw gaps in how Black history is told in the U.S., he began pulling up vital records, census records and even digitizing records of home births to fill the voids in ancestral history. With the help of others in his field, @alexwiththefacts is compiling a database he hopes will be a resource for African American families.⁣
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Learn more about this young genealogist on @Kqedarts' podcast #Rightnowish with @ogpenn. Visit the link in @kqedarts' bio to listen to the episode!

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