filial_piety
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Tough to say...there's no easy way to do this, but I think you need to have atleast 2 GGGPs who share your surname today is reasonable enough. I think you have to go before the 1900s though to prove lineage.
Cool to hear y’all have a family cemetery, and you’re right about those churches with the cemetery’s in the back. My fam has one in NC, and when my sister died, my pop buried her there, and went ahead and got plots for both he and my mama besides hers. I took pride when my pop took charge, and now collects the dues for the cemetery and we all help clean it during reunions. It’s right across the street from my grandpas house, so I’ll walk over there everytime I’m over there.Yeah, you definitely feel a connection and you gain even more respect for your family/ancestors when you visit those places.
I told my mom when I first started visiting more - I just wanted to get out the car and run in the fields. It smells so good there -- fresh air and flowers.
But at the same time -- running in the fields next to plantations is not the look. Snakes everywhere.
Also, you may want to check out the cemeteries when you go back again -- the cemeteries are often behind the church or next to the plantations and they are a mess. Covered with weeds -- and absolutely no care.
I went to Alabama last summer and helped my family clean up our family cemetery.
Tough to say...there's no easy way to do this, but I think you need to have atleast 2 GGGPs who share your surname today is reasonable enough. I think you have to go before the 1900s though to prove lineage.
all true, it's very complicated. Now that I think about it, my PGGF moved north and changed his surname from Harris or Harrison (I'm. still not sure of which) to what my surname is today. And with record keeping being extremely shotty back then, it would be too arduous to prove anything if you didn't have the perfect situation.Could be cool -- but the Surname part -- I don't think is smart. My father didn't have his ancestors surname -- and many Black people - male and female won't. Because, the women always took their husbands names -- and so did their kids -- even if their husband was not their child's father.
For instance, one of my 2nd Great Grannies had literally 4 surname changes. From the enslaver, to another enslaver, then her father surname, to her mom's new husband surname. Then her daughter my great grannie had three different last names on the Census.
all true, it's very complicated. Now that I think about it, my PGGF moved north and changed his surname from Harris or Harrison (I'm. still not sure of which) to what my surname is today. And with record keeping being extremely shotty back then, it would be too arduous to prove anything if you didn't have the perfect situation.
Ehhh...you'll have every Leave it to Beaver lilly white family running with their ancetry DNA results claiming an AA ancestor..saying "I got 1...see...see'Some people trying to make this too hard.
If you have an ancestor that was brought to the US as a slave at any point and time, you are a black american.
We have always known and accepted there are those among who can "pass" and the choice has always belonged to those that can pass whether they want to claim us or not, but we always claimed any of our home.
That extra before 68 shyt is a logical dead in and non-sense.
Lets keep it simple and move on from there
Hey and much respect bruh,...but I'm not Bass Reeves..he's the original lone ranger who was blackYup. And sadly, a lot of our ancestors couldn't read or write -- therefore -- misspellings are extremely common. One my maternal surnames is "Reaves" -- and half of the family spells it that way -- and the other half spells it "reeves." The enslaver was "reaves" though.
On my father's side I'm ADOS through Lousiana (grandmoms)& South Carolina (grandfather)
, my moms side is tricky.
She's half Bermudian (black British owned slaves ~her grandmother /and her grandfather was of German of black German ancestry her biological father & American Indian slaves.
Hey and much respect bruh,...but I'm not Bass Reeves..he's the original lone ranger who was black
I’d go check the census and see what they and past relatives have been checking off.Ehhh...you'll have every Leave it to Beaver lilly white family running with their ancetry DNA results claiming an AA ancestor..saying "I got 1...see...see'
Well you talk to you family about that then.My pops is a Black Cubano, so I know Im only entitled to "half"......( as if 90 miles from Florida matters)
I honestly think I should get full. My Mississippi fam still on them farms!
Are they really a descendant of slaves? If they are they are.Ehhh...you'll have every Leave it to Beaver lilly white family running with their ancetry DNA results claiming an AA ancestor..saying "I got 1...see...see'