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Inside the report: Your line, chartedInside · Your line, charted
Inside the report: Your family in American timeInside · Your family in American time
Inside the report: Where the paper trail runsInside · Where the paper trail runs
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The Family History Report

Your family’s story, researched and written for you — with the maps.

You tell us your surnames, your places and the stories you grew up hearing. We hand back your family’s documented trail, charted generation by generation, with the maps — within 7 days.

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What you receive

Maps and charts drawn from what you tell us — these for a sample family, yours for yours.

1940s CamdenSelmaDetroit The Culliver family (sample) · Alabama, Michigan · 1 known move named countyplaceknown move

Your family map

Every place your family named, on the ground.

The Culliver Line navy = your family's own account · gilt = the desk's reconstruction from the record pattern TODAYThe keeper of the file Denise Culliver-Hayes born Detroit, 1968 THE MIGRATION GENERATION · 1920S–1940SThe ones who went north Willie Culliver born Camden c. 1918 · Ford, 1946 Ada Boykin Culliver born Wilcox County c. 1921 C. 1880S–1900SThe first generation in the paper His father — a Culliverfarmer Wilcox County, 1880 census RECONSTRUCTION Her mother — a Boykin Dallas County, c. 1890 RECONSTRUCTION C. 1840S–1860SBorn before freedom The elders of Wilcox County Freedmen's Bureau era, 1865–72 RECONSTRUCTION THE COAST · BEFORE 1808The ancestral ground Senegambia · the Bight ofBiafra the trade record's two roads intoAlabama RECONSTRUCTION
The Culliver family in American time 1808: the transatlantic trade banned; the domestic trade moves families south and west · 1865–72 Freedmen's Bureau; 1865–74 Freedman's Bank; names chosen and ke… Before emancipation Freedom · the Bureau The paper begins The Great Migration The records open 1800182518501865187019001925195019752000 The ones who went north The first generation in Born before freedom The ancestral groundCamden → Detroit
Where the paper trail runs the record sets in your records map, by the years they cover — Wilcox County, Alabama · Dallas County, Alabama · Wayne County, Michigan · Culliver, Boykin the 1870 wall — the first census by name 1860187018801890190019101920193019401950Federal census (by name) every 10 years; 1890 lost to fireFreedmen's Bureau labor contracts, rations, marriagesFreedman's Bank application cards naming kinCounty marriage books post-emancipation unions recordedWWI draft cards men born 1873–1900Death certificates statewide registration begins by stateChurch & burial records the congregation's own books
  • A 40-plus page report, typeset to print and to keep
  • Your surnames researched — what each name carried and where it entered America
  • Your line charted generation by generation, as far as the record reaches
  • Your family map, the timeline and the paper-trail chart
  • A records map of live searches, and one free revision pass

How it works

Three steps. Your whole named family, researched in days — not the 8 to 12 weeks the big services quote.

Step 1

Checkout, then tell us about your family

A five-minute form right after payment: your surnames, your places, the oldest names you know, and the stories the elders told.

Step 2

We research it

Your names are run against the real history of your counties — emancipation, the Freedmen's Bureau years, the Great Migration — and your line is charted generation by generation.

Step 3

Your report arrives

Within 7 days: a document built to print, keep and read aloud — the maps, the charted line, the timeline, and a records map so the trail keeps going.

Questions people ask

We don’t guess, and we don’t pad. Where paper runs out you get the exact next step — never an invented name.

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Can I give one as a gift?

Yes — the second and third packages include a second report for someone you love. After checkout you receive a link: forward it and they tell us about their family themselves, or fill it in for them. Their report arrives with your name on the opening page.

Do I need a DNA test?

No. We work from names, places and history — no sample, no lab, nothing of yours in a database. If you already have DNA results, add them to your family details and they are read alongside the records.

What if the records run out?

For most Black American families the paper trail thins at 1870, and we don't pretend otherwise. Where the record pattern carries the story, the report says so plainly; where paper can prove no further, you get the exact next step — never an invented name.

How fast is it really?

Your report lands within 7 days of your family details — not the 8 to 12 weeks the big heritage services quote. The film follows within 14.

Is my family's information safe?

Your family details are read by our research desk and nobody else, used only to write your report, and never sold or shared. You can ask for them to be deleted at any time.

Anything else? Write to support@surnamereport.shop and a real person answers.

Your family, researched and handed back with the maps.

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Surnames’s books

The method behind the research, written down.

What Your DNA Results Actually Say$29 · the bookAcross the Water$37 · the workbookThe Names Book$37 · the guide
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Your line, charted

Your line on one page: what you told us in navy, what the record adds in gilt.

Your family in American time

Each generation on the line every Black American family history runs along.

Where the paper trail runs

The record sets that carry your names, by the years they cover.