I applaud your efforts. That said, I've known a good number of people that incur some emotional damage looking into their roots. A guy I worked with found out one of his GG Grandfathers disappeared from StLou. in 1900 leaving a wife an five children, never to be heard from again. His family assumed he'd been killed for publicly threatening a white man. He just found out the man ran away to CA and started over with a new mexican wife, and had three more children. They had a small farm that grew to over 500 acres in the Napa area and became solidly upper middle class. Mean time the family he abandoned stayed in the hood, and never really progressed. He was the first of them to finish college. When he reached out to his CA relatives they denied the relationship. Then he started looking for his GG Grandmothers records, just to spook them.Greetings BGOL Fam, I have another update. A guy reached out to me several days ago, because we shared an ancestor: his Great-Grandmother "Sadie"and my Great-Great-Grandmother "Amanda" were half sisters. They had the same father. His name was Austin Mims out of Freestone, Texas. So we began sharing information.
I found out that a John Hillard Mims (born 1803) was a white slave owner, and he had fathered over twenty something children. My GGG-Grandfather Austin was one of these children. But then, I found out that my GGG-Grandfather Austin's mother was a Comanche Indian. Then he (Austin) married a Black woman from Georgia, and that started a line that I'm a part of. Well, when my GGG-Grandmother died, he married again and that started my relative's line.
He told me that the Mims' have been in Freestone since the 1840s.
I'm going to plan a trip to Texas, so we can break bread and converse face to face. Again fam, I encourage everyone to look up your ancestors.
This sounds similar to my wife's Grandfather. I've been researching her side of the family as well as my own.I applaud your efforts. That said, I've known a good number of people that incur some emotional damage looking into their roots. A guy I worked with found out one of his GG Grandfathers disappeared from StLou. in 1900 leaving a wife an five children, never to be heard from again. His family assumed he'd been killed for publicly threatening a white man. He just found out the man ran away to CA and started over with a new mexican wife, and had three more children. They had a small farm that grew to over 500 acres in the Napa area and became solidly upper middle class. Mean time the family he abandoned stayed in the hood, and never really progressed. He was the first of them to finish college. When he reached out to his CA relatives they denied the relationship. Then he started looking for his GG Grandmothers records, just to spook them.
Yeah, I've heard of lots of men with multiple families back in the day. My own grandfather worked for the railroad back in the 50's, traveling the whole country and my grandmother told me she hated all work his friends for that very reason. To our knowledge he never had any other wives or kids.This sounds similar to my wife's Grandfather. I've been researching her side of the family as well as my own.
We found out that her Grandfather had two families, one in Mississippi and the other in Missouri. My wife's father never knew this, and we haven't told him either. He just said that he didn't know much about his Dad, except that he was a mean man growing up. He said that he never heard him laugh and never seen him smile.
I figure traveling between two states, feeding two separate families, and keeping it all a secret were taking a toll on him; so he couldn't be joyous. That's just my guess though.
that was the mind fuck from England. they were
the corporation called USA and created division so
they can profit from stealing land and resources.
great fuckin info bruh!
I laugh at this shit. Where do you think the black skinned folk came from that those colonizers saw when they got here. White folk want to be known as the first to be here, but in fact, Africans have been travelling the oceans since boats were made. We don't colonize we civilize.Peace to the tribe
Like I been saying
Black was here in america also
We are not African
BLACK DOES NOT ONLY COME FROM AFRICAI laugh at this shit. Where do you think the black skinned folk came from that those colonizers saw when they got here. White folk want to be known as the first to be here, but in fact, Africans have been travelling the oceans since boats were made. We don't colonize we civilize.
People u talking about are American NegrosI laugh at this shit. Where do you think the black skinned folk came from that those colonizers saw when they got here. White folk want to be known as the first to be here, but in fact, Africans have been travelling the oceans since boats were made. We don't colonize we civilize.
They delineated from us alreadyI laugh at this shit. Where do you think the black skinned folk came from that those colonizers saw when they got here. White folk want to be known as the first to be here, but in fact, Africans have been travelling the oceans since boats were made. We don't colonize we civilize.
They delineated from us already
We either a Akata from a african
Or a Yankee from the West Indies
No it All doesn’tDude, the foundation of humanity comes from Africa. Please read they came before columbus. And other books.
I think that will be what we will do.No it All doesn’t
We can agree to disagree.
Sorry
Speak for.yourselfPeace to the tribe
Like I been saying
Black was here in america also
We are not African
Greetings Fam, this is just another update in my ancestral journey.
This pic was sent to me by one of my cousins in Louisiana. This is one of my maternal Great-Grandmothers... She was Chahta (Choctow). She passed away in 2005 right before her 104 birthday. She was born in 1901 around St. Joseph Louisiana.
This was the youngest picture that I've ever seen of her. I remember her as being older all of the time, so this was great for me to see. I remember talking with her in the early 90s. I asked her one time, "While you all were picking cotton and sharecropping, what were the white folks doing?"
She said, "Sitting on they ass on the porch drinking lemonade watching us." I was like, "Damn."
She told me stories about how she saw white folks hanging Black and all of that nonsense. I was blessed to have gotten a chance to meet her and converse with her. I wish I had a different mindset back then, because I really could have gotten more knowledge from her. But I wasn't ready.
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What do u mean????????Speak for.yourself
Thank you Brother...Right on, Write on, Bruh..
Thats cool brotha.. I was lucky to have 2 great grandma that lived to be 107 and 104. The one that was 104 came from LA and ended up living in Houston(Im still doing research on her).. The one that lived to be 107 lived her whole life in Cheneyville LA and I was lucky to spend every summer with her until I was 16yrs.. I consider myself very lucky, both of my great grandma passes when I was 39yrs old and I got to spend lots of time with them.. That was a good and bad thing.. The bad thing was, I wasnt thinking about the past as much as Im thinking about it the past 10yrs.. Now Im stuck putting in the work to find out the past thru searching census records and those things..
Anyway bruh, keep up the hard work and dodge the highjack!!!
Thank you Brother...
I was fortunate enough to meet two of my Great-Grandmas... The one in the pic, and one of my father's Grandmothers. I know I'm blessed because I got the chance to lay eyes on them and to hear their voices. I was able to hug and hear one person who was born in 19th century, and the other one who was born in 1901. No one can tell me that I'm not blessed.
Brother, I really wish our people would stop with all of the damn doubting and start researching. I found out that I have a 12th Great-Grandmother from Virginia who was from the "Pamunkey" tribe (Powatan Confederation). I had never heard of the Pamunkey or the Powhatan until I started researching. The only reason I can tell you this is because her father married her off to a white man named "Croshaw". They had a daughter and married her off to white man named "West". They had a daughter, and married her off to a white man named "Martin". Then they had a daughter and married her off to a white man named "Mims". Then they had a son, and that's where the Mims' in my family came from.
Indians didn't keep records of births and deaths. But fortunately for me, the whites did. I don't care about the white lineage in my family; I'm not curious about them at all. But I'm extremely curious about the Indian and the African lines.
Bruh, let me encourage you. Put in the damn work. Your mind and your soul will be rewarded. It may not bring you any money or fame or anything like that. But you'll know your family's true story, while everyone else is guessing.
Find Your Tribe!
You was claiming Haitian Joan you native American. Pick an identity and stop trolling.What do
What do u mean????????
the Emblem of America is a Black Woman
Paper Genocide
Black American onlyYou was claiming Haitian Joan you native American. Pick an identity and stop trolling.
Update Fam,Greetings Fam, this is just another update in my ancestral journey.
This pic was sent to me by one of my cousins in Louisiana. This is one of my maternal Great-Grandmothers... She was Chahta (Choctow). She passed away in 2005 right before her 104 birthday. She was born in 1901 around St. Joseph Louisiana.
This was the youngest picture that I've ever seen of her. I remember her as being older all of the time, so this was great for me to see. I remember talking with her in the early 90s. I asked her one time, "While you all were picking cotton and sharecropping, what were the white folks doing?"
She said, "Sitting on they ass on the porch drinking lemonade watching us." I was like, "Damn."
She told me stories about how she saw white folks hanging Black and all of that nonsense. I was blessed to have gotten a chance to meet her and converse with her. I wish I had a different mindset back then, because I really could have gotten more knowledge from her. But I wasn't ready.
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Update Fam,
I was going through the 1950 United States Federal Census and I found something interesting again, concerning my Great-Grandmother.
1) They re-classified her from Indian to "Negro (Black)."
2) They have her born in Tensas, Louisiana... but, when you look at the birth place for her father (my Great-Great-Grandfather), it doesn't say that he was born in an particular state. It say's that he was born in the "USA."
Again, from prior research, we already know that that means he was an Indigenous person. He's connected to the land of the United States, and not a State or City.
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Update Fam,Thank you Brother.
You mentioned European running through your veins. Right now, we're focusing on my mother's side of the family.
But, on my father's side, I'm supposed to have a G-G-Granddad who's supposed to be white from Ireland or Scotland (I'm inclined to believe Ireland). I remember my Grandfather calling him, "The White Boy." But, we haven't started researching that side of the family yet.
I'm going to get the book you've mentioned as well...
Thanks again.
Greetings Fam, just another update.
I was able to pull down a 1910 United States Federal Census Report, today. It confirms what the 1930 census report says. It says that a set of my GGG-Grandparents on my Father's side were born in the "United States," while their child (my GG-Grandmother) was born in Texas.
At that time, they were considered to be American Indians from "Indian Territory." They're Indians, but their daughter is labeled "Black or Negro."
I have a screen shot of the report, but I didn't put it here because the report from 1930 pretty much says the same thing. But, I can post it anytime, just in case Hoteps, Pan Africans, or anti-Indian crews asks to see it.
Again, do your genealogy, Fam. You won't regret it.