Genealogy Thread

[IllmaticDelta]

Question for you guys.
For a lot of black folks, this is the end of the road.
But do you all continue to trace back the white side of the family?
It would virtually be impossible to try to find Esther's lineage.

for the most part no, I only looked deeper into the one(s) that were connected to my black 4th great grandma because the confirmed genetic connection made it easy. The furthest I went back on them was to these people-->

Temperance Lightfoot DeBerry (1784-1871) - Find A... (5th great-grandmother)

Edmund DeBerry (1787-1859) - Find A Grave... (5th great-grandfather)

Edmund Deberry - Wikipedia

Deberry, Edmund | NCpedia

 

[MollyGalaga]

circa 1775 (a 5th great grandparent)

How were you able to piece it together?

The birthdays & a probable name change are what's fukking me up

 

[MollyGalaga]

This estimate is on my great aunt. Her brother (great uncle) had a different percentage of nigeria show on his. Not surprised, only surprised that papa William mama was WHITE. Mixed, but still white nonetheless. His father was mixed too.
Baptiste was a prosperous man, shame it got fukked up.
& too bad ancestry doesn't go back that far to see how mixed I really am.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

How were you able to piece it together?

The birthdays & a probable name change are what's fukking me up

I had a genetic match, as did a list of other people who shared the genetic match; so I looked at the list of people I was related to and saw someone with records/documents to whoever this distant ancestor was, and that's how I was able to trace that far back.

 

[get these nets]

Nashville's historical database of enslaved people provides lots of interesting threads to pull at

• Betsy Phillips
• Jan 17, 2022

Did you know Nashville has a database of the transactions the city recorded of the disposition of enslaved people? This is a game-changer for anyone with Black ancestors in town. Let me be clear: It’s not a record of everyone who was enslaved in Davidson County. It is, however, a record of the times that the city government became involved in the recording of what happened to them — sales, transfers after owner’s deaths, emancipations, etc. And sometimes there’s a lot of family information — who was married to whom, who had which kids — that is hard to come by for descendants of enslaved people.

https://data.nashville.gov/Genealog...eople-of-Color-Database/fqu3-hv5z/data#revert

 

[Samori Toure]

Nashville's historical database of enslaved people provides lots of interesting threads to pull at

• Betsy Phillips
• Jan 17, 2022

Did you know Nashville has a database of the transactions the city recorded of the disposition of enslaved people? This is a game-changer for anyone with Black ancestors in town. Let me be clear: It’s not a record of everyone who was enslaved in Davidson County. It is, however, a record of the times that the city government became involved in the recording of what happened to them — sales, transfers after owner’s deaths, emancipations, etc. And sometimes there’s a lot of family information — who was married to whom, who had which kids — that is hard to come by for descendants of enslaved people.

https://data.nashville.gov/Genealog...eople-of-Color-Database/fqu3-hv5z/data#revert

Good sources. Also AncestryDNA has a really good database that people can use, but it costs about $20.00 per month to access.

 

[lamontep49]

I got interested in my genealogy when my father died in 2014. I didn't know anything really about my grandfather except his name he died when my dad was nine. So that's where it started from and I have been working on my tree now for 8 years its really has become fun hobby for me. right now my tree has 7064 people in it with accurate rating ill say 85%. I use ancestry.com for the most. One thing I realize early that northern states did a great job of keeping records of blacks my mother side is from Louisville Kentucky and i was able to go great-great grandparents on both her maternal and paternal sides. The hard part is my father's side pretty much family was been in Meriwether county Georgia forever. what makes it tough they didn't do a great job with records. plus there was a lot of common firstnames with the same last name being that pretty much most of them came from the same plantation. So you have to look at that census record real good. I dont think ill be satisfied until i find information on bill parham born around 1892 died around 1915 from getting hit by a train this is my great grandfather. But overall enjoy it finding new family members

 

[IllmaticDelta]

many people on my maternal grandma's side have this surname and they all had deep roots in Maryland

also related

Long Hill (Wetipquin, Maryland) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[invalid]

We’ve just established a genetic connection to the Quander family.

It’s coming through our connection to the Washington Family.

I’m double connected to the Washington’s on both my maternal and paternal side. My maternal side are descendants of Samuel Washington, the brother of George Washington, pictured below. My paternal side are descendants of Warner Washington, a first cousin of Samuel and George.

Samuel Washington.

The brother of George Washington.

Some info on the Quanders who are the oldest Black family that can trace a direct link back to Africa. Specifically to the Fantis of Ghana.

something interesting

Anglicized African surname







The QUANDER surname in America | American Surnames

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The QUANDER surname in America | American Surnames

Interesting to learn that West Ford, who is speculated to be the only son of President George Washington, mother was a Quander who was enslaved by the Washington Family.

Nellie Quander, the first president of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, is a Quander on her father side, and her mother is a descendant of West Ford. A double Quander.

 

[invalid]

many people on my maternal grandma's side have this surname and they all had deep roots in Maryland

also related

Long Hill (Wetipquin, Maryland) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Is Betty from the family of T. Thomas Fortune?

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Is Betty from the family of T. Thomas Fortune?

I have no idea

 

[invalid]

I have no idea

I just looked it up. Although his family made it to Philly, they were originally from Florida, where he was born enslaved.

Looks like Betty’s family were free blacks.