Build Your Family Tree
To be eligible for DTRF programs, such as the Descendant Scholarship or Aging with Dignity program, you must first be certified as a Descendant of Jesuit slaveholding within the United States. You have a number of options to uncover your ancestral information and build a family tree.
Descendants of Jesuit Enslavement
Search a database of names, places, families, cemeteries and more to learn whether you are a Descendant of Jesuit slaveholding. This database includes many ancestors who were enslaved by Jesuits, not only those who were a part of the 272 individuals included in the 1838 sale by Georgetown.
GU272 Descendants Association
Complete a certification form through the GU272 to learn whether you are a Descendant of one of the 272 sold by Georgetown in 1838. Then complete a researched electronic ancestral family tree through Ancestry.com or provide an existing researched family tree.
Georgetown Memory Project
See here for guidance on clues that you may be a Descendant of the 1838 Georgetown sale.
