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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. 

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.

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