Genealogy Research for African Americans
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- čas přidán 13. 06. 2019
- Virginia Currents talks with Timothy Wilson on how he has uncovered 13 family trees through genealogical research despite his struggle to find records on his African American ancestors who were slaves. See how “Virginia Untold-The African American Narrative” helps African Americans connect to their past.
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Took us a few years researching my family genealogy. The journey led me to find out we're not African.
😮Are you native?
Please brother, this is exactly what I’m frightening about now. As my mother is brown like mocha and my dad is light skin like caramel when you stretch it. Me, I’m silky black and a radiant brown in the sun.. I’m wondering is my father light skin because he truly isn’t 100% African?? What did you find out and please elaborate on your research as far as your lineage and ultimately the comment “found out we aren’t African”
im not saying you are wrong. but the thing is, please keep in mind a lot of escaped enslaved people joined native tribes but are still genetically FROM africa even if they became culturally native. For example a white orphan boy in 1608 had been traded to a native tribe by the Jamestown colonists, his name was Thomas Savage. but my concept is that for every thomas savage there are thousands of enslaved african refugees who joined native tribes to escape slavery, and thus became native by default. so i would take that into account. i would say it absolutely can be linked back to africa. its just your ancestors probably joined native tribes.
or they went to become Dismal Swamp Maroons for example and went that route to be independent. but either way they had close contact with the Native American tribes in both cases for escaped enslaved people in VA
I'm from VA and went back and found slaves in my family with the last name Gary, Ellis and Bynum... I'm moving to SC and I'm driving home to VA twice a month to do research especially on my Parker side from Ahoskie VA!! This is fascinating!! ✊🏿✊🏿😍🔥
Being enslaved and being a Slave are two different things
Wow! My maiden name is Parker and I’m from Va.
I just found the site today! It’s a wealth of knowledge!
I have researching my family for about 5 years off & on. I found my 5th great grandfather on my Mother's side. They are from Orange County, VA.
What’s the surname? I have deep roots in Orange, VA. Poindexter’s and Strotter’s (Strother)
Same Timeframe My Family Also
Same here but my great grandfather changed the spelling of his last name when he came to Pennsylvania to Stern. Fam said he dropped the a or an e . I know there's a family farm in Orange county Virginia
Literally traced my ancestors back until I found the slave owners name and his second address in Jamaica. He Literally took my people from the island plantation called Buff Bay ( sugar slaves) to VA then Mississippi. Traced my ancestors back to the 1600’s I have all the documents including there emancipation papers and freedom papers and several war enlistments !! They were mulatto one was Named Samuel hynes Vick (yes relation to Mike Vick) who was rich af from real estate. Almost everyone in my family owns or sell real estate. I will remember all this when I’m told GO BACK to AFRICA . Even Sam’s father Daniel Vick was a free black man. Got me f’d 🆙
I ended up here after learning my great grandfather worked as a miner in wise county Virginia. My grandmother told my sister she grew up in the Appalachians.
MY GRANDPARENTS HAIL FROM CHASE CITY, VA/ RICHMOND. I’VE BEEN RESEARCHING FOR YEARS NOW AND EVERY RESOURCE AT MY DISPOSAL WILL BE USED, INCLUDING THIS ONE. THANK YOU.
My people are from Chase City too ❤️
@@brwndot WHAT ARE YOUR FOLKS LAST NAMES?
@@doobzthechamp3134 we are Thomases, Hepburns, Hayes', Olivers, Longs, Valentines, Tisdales, Hardys, Holmes', Tuckers and probably more
@@brwndot SMALL WORLD. WE ARE KEENES, TUCKERS, HARDYS, BASKERVILLES, ETC. OMG
I'm third generation Virginian on my mother's side on my father's side his family been here in Virginia forever and I'm all so related to nat Turner on my father's side
If you know anything about Virginia, you’ll know that those Indigenous peoples weren’t “African Americans”, they were there; prior to colonization.
FACTS
I’m from Virginia and my entire bloodline on my grandmothers side my great aunt told me that we were initially called stone Indians they were the purest and first black indigenous ppl they don’t even use that term anymore
My father whose father and grandparents are from VA told me that his family did not come over here on ships. They were already here and ran businesses . ❤
Nonsense.
Nonsense.
I love this , I just moved moved to VA beach, and I'm love looking up history. My ancestors are not here but this is so interesting ❤💯
Thank you, Mr. Timothy. We're researching surnames: Grant, Manning, Mathews, and Williams in St Stephens Berkeley County, SC, USA
I have Burford in my family. I am from Richmond Va
At 9:05 how do i go and read box 12 for the Ezell family records. Are they there today?
I need to check out this site. It is hard doing research on black families. When we were coming up parents and relatives did not give us a lot of information on our families. My parents came from North Caroline to Virginia. I had been trying get information on where my granddad was buried but cannot find anything. He and my grandmother either separately or divorce because she remarried twice. I went to find a grave. Got information on her but it stated she was married to my granddad but afterwards she married again.
@@blackface703 All my elders are dead. The only people left just myself and sister. I am retired. We are both in our late sixties. We are on a tight budget. Ancestry and fold 3 wants to charge.When we were coming up our parents refused talked about their history. Does Library of Virginia have something free on line where we can research. Thank you
I need to go on that website I've been on Ancestry and the free site and I need to know where they from here in Va or Maryland
Most family on my mom side come through line of virgina and Louisiana my dad side florida and cuba
Crazy I'm just finding this, I looked into my mother's family history and gone as far back as the 1600s. Her people are from Isles of Wright Va, they had their own land acres of it, surprisingly they were never slaves, they were in their community government, their land was a town more so a whole community, the white man dared not come around them in a uncivilized matter and they had their newspaper, how did they lose all that and how do I get it back?
Wow, keep digging and I pray you get compensation for it ALL!!
My greatgrand mother born 1882
Do you or does anyone have any information about the Chesapeake Bay blacks during the war of 1812 we had many slaves who fought on the side of the British and came to Nova Scotia in exchange for their help in the war in Nova Scotia we have many black communities made up of these people does anybody have any information you could email me thank you
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I Have Researched My Family But Had To Find Them. That was what gave Me My Knowledge. I Am 6% African. Mali /Togo. Congo. Ghana.
Virginian Issues. Wm Tyree. Nan
It all hits a brick wall at some point. I suppose I can't assume anything. Other than no, hitting a brick wall regarding an African ancestors' origin doesn't make the particular ancestor an American Indian.
Read up on the legal acts that reclassified all American Indians not on reservations as black. Do you really believe there were only 5 tribes over this vast land? 😂😂😂
@@Mimi-ht6xr No. But none of them had African, Spanish, English , or French admixture until the colonials. This is hard fact.
@@Mimi-ht6xr There's the particular case of American Indians with a high Blood Quantum as well as some blood from Africa.
But it's not universal.
@@Mimi-ht6xr I don't wanna be rude but those folks effectively "joined the English tribe." As our Algonquian ancestors would have described it when they did it also.
@@Mimi-ht6xr I'm not saying you can't be revivalist about hella old heritage if you can verify it but maybe not when the motive comes from to trying to get resources from Tribes. 🤔