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Friday, October 25, 2013

The African Americans, Many Rivers to Cross – Episode 1: From Africa to Virginia to Mississippi

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On this past Tuesday, the first episode of The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross series aired on PBS with great anticipation f...
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Joshua Marks, Our “Gentle Giant,” is Cooking for the Ancestors Now

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  Source: JoshMarksCooks On September 3, 2011 in Atlanta, my cousin Fairelma (Jean) Butler Hughes visited me at work. She was in town...
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Sunday, September 15, 2013

Oral History Interview

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I FOUND THE CASSETTE TAPE! On April 8, 2005, I drove to Memphis, TN to capture my late Cousin Robert Danner’s family recollections on tape...
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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Celebrating 95 Years!

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  Cousin Ira Blount and me on his 95th birthday, August 17, 2013 Yesterday, I met my cousin Ira P. Blount of Washington, DC for the f...
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Monday, May 27, 2013

Help Us Find Christopher’s Birth Mother: DNA Provides Clues

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  Dr. Christopher Harris of Toronto, Ontario Revised and Updated: January 1, 2015 On May 10, 2013, I received the following mess...
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

DNA Continues to Amaze Me!

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This week, my cousin NeNise Smith’s DNA results were calculated by 23andMe . She told me several weeks ago that she had taken their DNA te...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Part 2: When the Ancestors Just Leap Off the Page!

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Note: Part 1 of this research story can be read here . Just when I think that tracing an African-American family couldn’t get any ea...
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