Professional genealogists can lend credibility to oral family histories.

Evidence

This was the recurring question, and I knew I needed a professional genealogist to help fill it, someone with credibility to give me and my mother’s oral history credibility. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 348

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth tracing how credentialed institutional legitimacy interacts with (and perhaps devalues) the oral histories that are often all Black families have.