The Bearden Family

The Family Tree

Two documented lines of descent — the father’s and the mother’s — from the deepest surviving record down to the present. Where the paper ends and only DNA can reach, the tree says so plainly. Tap any name for the evidence behind it.

Both lines arrive in one person.

Kevin Bearden
where both rivers arrive — Senegambia and the Congo, free Aaron and enslaved Mariah, held now in one family