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Learn how to do your own genealogy for $5
One payment. The full book, the Roots Proof Lab™ training, two new podcasts and every bonus — all yours in the next two minutes.
The Yamassee Indian Tribe · Yamassee Nation
$5. Not to buy an identity. To start proving your story.
A documentation blueprint by Chief Se’khu Hadjo Gentle for descendants who are done guessing — census records, vital records, historic rolls, name changes, archives and lawful record correction.
New podcasts · Available in your dashboard
Explore how government records can obscure Indigenous ancestry, then examine inherited family land and the ownership and planning questions worth asking. Two audio episodes complement your research — included with the $5 genealogy package.
Educational discussions, not legal advice or proof of tribal citizenship.
Instant digital download · 100+ page research blueprint
Buy today · Bonus bundle included
New · Biggest bonus yet
Roots Proof Lab™ — the interactive training lab, included with your $5
The book is the curriculum. The Lab is where you work the method on your own family — with a guide answering your questions as you go.
Everyone who buys now keeps the Lab — and everything we add to it — at no extra cost. As the Lab grows, the price of this bundle goes up. $5 is today’s price, not tomorrow’s.
Do Your Own Genealogy — second ebook, included free
A step-by-step guide to discovering your family history using free and paid resources. It's in your downloads alongside the main book.
Identity Proof Stack Starter Checklist (PDF)
The first nine documents to gather and where each one lives — so you never have to guess what to request first.
Fillable Research Workbook (PDF)
Pre-built log sheets for names, dates, counties and citations — no need to design your own filing system.
Members-only Free Drop archive
New record guides, templates and research releases added for paid members — no extra fee, ever.
Everything above is bonus material. The book is what you’re buying — the rest is ours to hand you so you don’t have to build it, buy it, or hire it out.
Do the math
Typical market rates for hiring the same work out. Prices vary by researcher and region — these are common ranges, not quotes.
Professional genealogist research (10 hrs @ $75–$125/hr)
$750 – $1,250
Included
Records-retrieval service (10 documents @ $25–$40 each)
$250 – $400
Do it yourself
Consumer DNA test kit
$99 – $199
Not required
Research checklist & filing templates
$40 – $80
Free bonus
Fillable research workbook
$25 – $50
Free bonus
Ongoing research drops / membership
$15 – $30 / mo
Free bonus
Your total
$1,179 – $2,009 elsewhere.$5 here.
You keep the skill too. Hire it out once and you own a report. Learn it once and you can document every branch of your family for the rest of your life.
Bonus bundle delivered instantly with your book
From the community
“Facts. Thank you for helping me find my great grandparents.”
— Nicole
“Thank you, Chief. This is great information. You’re definitely standing on business. Keep it up.”
— Ms. Rawalanda
“Thank you, Chief! You’re helping so many tribes, even the ‘wiped out’ ones.”
— JasperJade
“Thank you! I’m reading it now!”
— Sugar Wells
“If you don’t know who this man is, I promise you need to.”
— Katrice
“Thanks for sharing your information with us, my friend and my brother!”
— Gary Duvall
Shared from public community comments. Results reflect individual experiences and are not a promise of a specific research outcome.
Included with the $5 book
Your private research course and case file, included with Building Your Indigenous Tribe at no extra cost. Work through guided training modules and fictional practice cases, fill in every workbook worksheet live in your account, and build a case file of your own — what each document says, what it means, and the next record to find. The Proof Stack shows six areas of your research at a glance, each with a plain-English status and the reason behind it. Sage, your research guide, answers questions the whole way through.
Roots Proof Lab teaches genealogy research, record analysis and documentation. It does not certify identity, determine citizenship, or grant recognition of any kind.
Research online records
The book teaches you what proof looks like. FindMyRoots.online is where you go hunting for it — a research site built to help you search online records and track what you find.
FindMyRoots.online is a research tool. Like this book, it does not grant identity, citizenship, recognition or any legal status.
Start where the silence is
Who was the relative nobody would talk about?
Why did the family surname change between two census years?
Which grandmother was recorded one way on paper and another way at home?
What happened to the land, the church roll, the county register?
What do you actually have — and what have you only been told?
Every one of those questions has a paper trail somewhere. This book teaches you how to find it, read it, and preserve it correctly.
The method
A proof stack is a documented, source-cited chain of records that a stranger can follow without taking your word for anything. Stories start the search. Records finish it.
Birth, death and marriage certificates — and the amendment process when they are wrong.
Reading enumeration sheets, racial classification columns, and household patterns across decades.
Agency rolls, church books, freedmen and community registers, land and probate files.
Tracking spelling drift, aliases, and administrative reclassification without inventing links.
National, state and county archives — how to request, cite and store what you receive.
SSA and vital-records processes done properly, through the lawful channels that exist.
Read this before you spit in a tube
Consumer DNA tests compare you to reference panels assembled by private companies. They can suggest relatives and broad regions. They do not produce a name, a date, a county, or a record — and they are not what archives, registrars or communities work from.
Documentation works differently. A census line, a marriage license, a probate file and a church register can be independently pulled by anyone, in the same repository, forever.
What a test gives you
What a record gives you
Not a lecture
Photos, bibles, deeds, funeral programs, letters — logged and dated before anything else.
Structured questions, consent, and a transcript format that becomes citable evidence.
Census, vital, land, probate, court and church records — with request templates and repository routes.
What to do when three documents disagree, and how to note uncertainty honestly.
Where amendment processes exist, how they actually work, and what they can and cannot do.
Shared archives, stewardship of land and burial sites, and record-keeping a community can rely on.
Inside the book
The five-dollar question
“Five-dollar Indian” is what people called an identity that was supposedly settled with a payment and a signature — a story about paperwork, money and who got to write the record down.
We are not repeating that. Five dollars here does not buy heritage, citizenship, recognition or legal status. Nobody can sell you those, and anyone who offers to is selling you a problem.
Five dollars now buys the tools to research and document the truth — with your own hands, in your own family’s name.
Plain terms
If anyone tells you a certificate, card or filing makes you a citizen of a nation, walk away and keep your money. Research is slower. It is also the only thing that holds.
Free · No purchase needed
The first nine documents to gather, where each one lives, and what to write down the moment you get it. Send it to yourself and start tonight.
Who this is for
Families with an oral history and no paperwork to match it
Descendants researching Black Seminole and Southeastern community history
People who found a name change, a reclassification or a missing decade
Community organisers building shared archives and governance records
Anyone who was almost sold a certificate and wants the real process instead
New · Land & family property
Two educational guides by Chief Se’khu Hadjo Gentle for anyone who wants to understand family property and plan for its future. Each one comes with the worksheets inside the book. Buying a land book on its own does not include the genealogy package or Roots Proof Lab.
A plain-language guide for property owners and families
What a trust is, its possible benefits and limits, and the difference between creating a trust and funding it, with step-by-step educational guidance on setting one up and opening a trust bank account.
A family guide to ownership records, inheritance and land stewardship
Family land and ownership records, inheritance and heirs' property, how families make decisions together, the history of land loss, how tribal and federal trust land differ, and practical planning tools.
Both land books
$10
Both land books and their worksheets. Does not include the genealogy package.
Best value · same price
All four ebooks — $10
Both land books, plus Building Your Indigenous Tribe, Do Your Own Genealogy, and the Roots Proof Lab training, worksheets and workbooks.
A small card processing fee is added at checkout. These books are educational resources, not legal, tax or financial advice. Laws and requirements vary by state and jurisdiction. Nothing in these books, and no private trust, guarantees property protection, prevents foreclosure, eliminates taxes or establishes tribal status. For your own situation, talk to a licensed professional where you live.
$5. Not to buy an identity. To start proving your story.
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