Who is TBAT?
Who is TBAT?
The Black American Tribe
The Black American Tribe
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The Lineage Verifying & Organizing Hub for the Black American Descendant Community
The Lineage Verifying & Organizing Hub for the Black American Descendant Community
The Black American Tribe (TBAT) provides the infrastructure to verify lineage, organize connections, and build trusted pathways throughout the Black American Descendant Community.
Through professional genealogy, lineage verification, education, community and business care, cultural compliance, and lineage-verified networks, TBAT connects descendants to the people, resources, organizations, businesses, and cooperative communities that help strengthen an interdependent Descendant Network.
Where Would You Like to Begin?
Where Would You Like to Begin?
Choose the pathway that best matches what you're looking for.
Choose the pathway that best matches what you're looking for.
We'll help you take the next step.
We'll help you take the next step.
🧬Genealogy & Verification
🧬Genealogy & Verification
Ready to discover, document, or verify your Black American lineage?
Explore professional genealogy and lineage verification services or learn about our FREE Lineage Basics Class pathway.
🫱🏾🫲🏼Descendant Networks
🫱🏾🫲🏼Descendant Networks
Looking for connection beyond verification?
Explore the Descendant Networks connecting lineage-verified individuals, businesses, leaders, organizations, and cooperative communities.
💼Business & Organization Support
💼Business & Organization Support
Looking to connect your business, organization, collective, or community to the network?
Explore Business Care, network development, cooperative connections, consulting, and partnership pathways.
❤️Community Care Support
❤️Community Care Support
Need information, reconnection, PMA or network support, or help navigating your next step?
Community Care Support provides structured guidance and support throughout the TBAT ecosystem.
Not Sure Where to Begin?
Not Sure Where to Begin?
Not sure which TBAT service, program, or network pathway fits what you're looking for?
Complete our short TBAT Discovery Form and tell us what you need. We'll help connect you to the appropriate service, department, or next step.
Professional Genealogy & Lineage Verification
Professional Genealogy & Lineage Verification
Discover • Document • Verify
Discover • Document • Verify
TBAT provides professional genealogy research and lineage verification for Black American descendants.
Our genealogists use trusted historical records to document lineage and establish verified ancestral connections to the Black American Descendant Community.
Lineage Basics Class (LBC)
Lineage Basics Class (LBC)
Learn • Research • Connect
Learn • Research • Connect
The Lineage Basics Class is our FREE genealogy education pathway for those who want to learn how to begin researching and documenting their own family lineage while connecting with the TBAT genealogy community.
Participants seeking the free pathway begin through TBAT Info Orientation and register for an upcoming LBC session.
Lineage Verified Networks
Lineage Verified Networks
Verify • Organize • Connect
Verify • Organize • Connect
TBAT serves as THE Lineage Verifying & Organizing Hub for the Black American Descendant Community, connecting lineage-verified individuals, businesses, organizations, leaders, and cooperative communities through trusted networks.
Our goal is to strengthen an interdependent Descendant Network where verified connections can lead to resources, relationships, collaboration, opportunity, and community.
Business Care Support
Business Care Support
Support • Develop • Connect
Support • Develop • Connect
Business Care Support helps lineage-verified businesses assess their needs, strengthen their visibility, and connect to resources, marketing support, trusted relationships, and opportunities throughout the Descendant Network.
Business owners entering the network can begin their Business Care journey through TBAT's network onboarding process.
Community Care Support
Community Care Support
Care • Reconnect • Navigate
Care • Reconnect • Navigate
Community Care Support is a structured care service available to The City community and eligible Descendant Network members.
It provides guidance, reconnection support, resource navigation, and connections to trusted services and network resources when additional support is needed.
Cultural Compliance & Violations
Cultural Compliance & Violations
Monitor • Document • Correct
Monitor • Document • Correct
TBAT's Cultural Compliance & Violations Division monitors reported and identified cultural violations affecting the Black American Descendant Community.
We process and document cases, maintain violation and correction data, track outcomes, and work toward appropriate cultural correction.
When necessary, TBAT may coordinate or refer matters to Authorized TBAT Partners or aligned organizations within the Lineage Alliance Network (LAN).
Why Choose TBAT?
Why Choose TBAT?
Building Trust Through Lineage, Structure & Service
Building Trust Through Lineage, Structure & Service
TBAT was built to create trusted infrastructure for the Black American Descendant Community.
Our work combines professional standards, documented lineage, structured care, cultural responsibility, and cooperative connection to create pathways our community can rely on.
We don't believe lineage verification should end with a certificate.
Verification creates the foundation for trusted connection, organized community, cooperative development, and generational legacy.
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Lineage Comes First
Lineage Comes First
Our work is grounded in documented Black American lineage and professional genealogical research, creating a trusted foundation for the people, businesses, organizations, and communities connected through our network.
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Structure Matters
Structure Matters
TBAT builds systems designed to move people from information to verification, connection, care, participation, and cooperative opportunity with clear pathways and standards along the way.
🫱🏾🫲🏼 Connection Has Purpose
🫱🏾🫲🏼 Connection Has Purpose
We don't verify lineage simply to identify who belongs. We organize trusted connections that help descendants find resources, businesses, organizations, opportunities, and communities where they can build.
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Legacy Is the Goal
Legacy Is the Goal
Everything we build is designed with generations in mind from documenting our ancestors and protecting our culture to strengthening businesses, communities, networks, and institutions for those who come after us.
We verify the lineage. We organize the connections. Together, we build the legacy.
Lineage. Legacy. Leverage.
Lineage. Legacy. Leverage.
THE DESCENDANT NETWORK VISION
THE DESCENDANT NETWORK VISION
More Than Verification. We're Building Connection.
More Than Verification. We're Building Connection.
A Descendant Network of Interdependent Cooperative Communities
A Descendant Network of Interdependent Cooperative Communities
TBAT serves as THE Lineage Verifying & Organizing Hub for the Black American Descendant Community. Verification establishes the trusted foundation—but what we build from that foundation is where the greater work begins.
Our vision is a connected Descendant Network of lineage-verified individuals, families, businesses, organizations, institutions, and cooperative communities working independently while building interdependently.
TBAT helps organize those connections so descendants can move through the network based on where they fit, what they need, what they offer, and what they are building.
VERIFY
VERIFY
Lineage provides the foundation.
Lineage provides the foundation.
TBAT establishes trusted lineage verification standards that help create confidence in who and what is connected throughout the network.
ORGANIZE
ORGANIZE
Connection needs infrastructure.
Connection needs infrastructure.
We develop pathways that connect verified descendants, businesses, organizations, resources, and communities rather than leaving everyone operating in isolation.
CONNECT
CONNECT
Interdependence creates leverage.
Interdependence creates leverage.
The goal is not for every person or organization to become the same thing. The goal is to create trusted connections that allow independent communities and institutions to work together, exchange resources, support one another, and build collectively.
Where the Model Lives
Where the Model Lives
The City: TBAT's Flagship Lineage-Verified Cooperative Community
The City: TBAT's Flagship Lineage-Verified Cooperative Community
The City is where TBAT's cooperative community model is actively practiced, developed, documented, and refined. It brings lineage-verified descendants together through organized community, shared responsibility, care, participation, and cooperative development.
What we learn through The City helps inform the frameworks TBAT can use to support and consult with organizations, collectives, and future lane-specific cooperative communities while allowing each community to maintain its own identity, leadership, and purpose.
Welcome to TBAT HQ
Welcome to TBAT HQ
Our Virtual Community & Cooperative Office
Our Virtual Community & Cooperative Office
TBAT HQ is the operational home of The Black American Tribe—bringing our departments, professional services, education, care, network partners, and cooperative work together in one virtual environment.
From genealogy and lineage verification to meetings, workshops, community support, network development, and partner collaboration, TBAT HQ provides structured virtual space for the work of the Black American Descendant Community.
More Than an Office
More Than an Office
TBAT HQ also serves as a cooperative workspace for our network. Authorized partners, connected organizations, and eligible lineage-verified members can access or reserve virtual space for meetings, events, office hours, collaborative work, and other approved activities.
Ready to Take Your Next Step?
Ready to Take Your Next Step?
Your Lineage Is the Beginning. What You Build With It Is the Legacy.
Your Lineage Is the Beginning. What You Build With It Is the Legacy.
Whether you're ready to research your family history, verify your lineage, connect to the Descendant Network, explore community, build cooperative relationships, or simply learn more about TBAT, there is a pathway forward.
Choose where you'd like to begin, and we'll help you take the next step.
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We verify the lineage.
We verify the lineage.
We organize the connections.
We organize the connections.
Together, we build the legacy.
Together, we build the legacy.
LINEAGE. LEGACY. LEVERAGE.
LINEAGE. LEGACY. LEVERAGE.
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