 I found a genealogist to help me out. Her name is Nika Sewell-Smith, and the first thing she told me... One of the sort of hallmarks of genealogy is that you have to literally, like, go down a rabbit hole. This is not going to be easy. Genealogy keeps you in a perpetual state of being Alice, particularly when you're focusing on African-American people, people who descended from a formerly enslaved... Because government documents or records of these family histories...