Found out some interesting things about my ancestry by doing my own racial/family history digging. I’m a African American who’s family was descended from the slaves that were sent to work for white slave owners in North Carolina, so a lot of our genealogy was wiped away due to slavery unfortunately. BUT there are some very interesting things that I ended up learning. For a LONG time my family would tell me tha we were mixed with black, cherokee, and white. I couldn’t find any proof for the Native American claim, but I DID find proof for the black (duh) and white (not surprisingly) claim. One of my ancestors was the slave daughter of her white slave owner Nathaniel Macon from Littleton, North Carolina. I also had a white grandmother who was the common law wife of a Mulatto (mixed black and white) man. So, those little tid bits were interesting. Of course, I still could not find exactly WHERE in Africa my ancestors who were slaves descended from. I thought I got close because one of my oldest ancestors that I can reach back to who was a slave (then my genealogy search goes dead after him) was named Mingo instead of a European, Biblical name as was the practice of naming slaves. But unfortunately I couldn’t find anymore information about him or his unusual name other than it just might have been a coincidence that he was named something non-European. I’m thinking of taking a DNA test as my next stop. Because I would also like to know where my white ancestry is from as well. But mainly where my black ancestry is from, to be honest since that is what I identify as. And I would love to go to Africa some day and visit the places where maybe I could have been from or had a heritage, a language, and a culture there if my ancestors weren’t betrayed by their people or stolen and taken away as slaves.
February 18th, 2018 at 07:22pm
