Question

how to search for african americans only

Answer 1

Hi Lisa! One way is to go to:

https://wikitree.sdms.si/default.htm

Scroll about half-way down on the left, click "Search," replace "Ljubljana Trtnik" with "African-American" or "African American Weatherall" (or whatever name you want), and click "Get Profiles."

Comments

Keep in mind that most profiles on the WikiTree do not identify a race. The search results will a very small portion of the real number of individuals on the WikiTree.

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Kitty is correct. However, African-Americans are a special case on WT because we have the US Black Heritage Project (and other WTers) working to add new profiles and identify previously-made profiles in order to honor heritage and create family connections. The WT Plus search above will show profiles with the {{African-American Sticker}}. We have nearly 110,000 of those, and if I had to guess, maybe 30,000 African-Americans don’t have the sticker yet. This is a very rough estimate. 

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:US_Black_Heritage_Project_Stats

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Hi Elaine,  I used the search engine you suggested and the result for "African-American" was 

Query African-American: 966 suggestions.

One thousand suggestions is a lot smaller than 110,000.  Is there a better search?  

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Sure, you have to scroll a little further down the screen when you first open WT Plus. There's a separate button, not under the Suggestions header, called "Search". Click that, and it unfolds a new spot to enter text.

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I'm going to add this search technique on our welcome page Lisa mentioned above. A lot of people have started asking how they can search just for their Black family by last name. This is the only way I know how to do it since we don't have a race field on WikiTree.