New Site For Helping Trace Slave Roots

When I was a teen, a mini series on television called Roots was being viewed by millions. The show was taken from a book by Alex Haley and traced his family back to Africa. It was said that he spent 10 years tracing his roots, looking up ship records, and going to the village to talk to the villagers about their history.
That show got people thinking about their family roots. That show was in 1977.
Today, millions of ancestors of former slaves will get help in tracing their roots in a new site. Voyages is a new site that offers records on the slave trade and the people that were forced into it. Almost 35000 slaving voyages are in the database.
The database also contains the African names,gender and place of embarkation. You probably still won't get back to your actual roots, unless you have more information,
but it will be a tool to see and map the areas from where your people originated. The site is free to use. It is being sponsored by Emory University,The W.E.B.Dubois institute of Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
You can find the site at http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces