Posted on 10/19/2009 6:34:50 PM PDT by presidio9
You’re ignorant of this nations.
I’m Welsh, Scottish, Irish, English, French, German, Spanish, two American Indian tribes and Negro (I recently found that two of my great-great-grandparents had been freed slaves.)
Welcome to the real United States. Your supposed ancestors may have had secrets!
My earliest European ancestor came to James Cittie, Virginia in 1610. His line is also where some of my native American ancestry comes in, but not all. Seven of them were denied on the Guion-Miller Rolls in the early 1900’s. Seems they’d lived apart from the tribe for over a century, and were not eligible due to that lack of association, despite proven descent. My latest European ancestor arrived in 1738.
I’ve yet to find a black ancestor, but I’d honor him or her just as I honor them all. Wouldn’t be here without them. I can’t rule out the possibility, due to having a 2nd cousin die from Sickle Cell disease, though. Blonde hair, blue eyes.
But, even so, the statistics you cite are so broad as to be nearly useless. There is a high degree of regional variance. I’d say well over half of native southerners have some native American ancestry, whether black or white. Being always at odds with the native people was not the case here. To the extent that some tribes disappeared, it wasn’t war or disease, but genetic swamping, that did it. Very different from other parts of our country.
Good Grief! What is wrong with this guy?????
We hate Obummer because he’s a freakin communist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is it just me, but I had to re-read that headline several times just to get its meaning. Why can’t people write straight forward titles?
Crouch is a failed jazz musician who started criticizing other jazz musicians when he became a critic. now he’s just a demented idiot who sees everything through a racist lens. He’s just one more cog in the wheel of brain dead liberalism
Actually, I had to edit the headline quite a bit to get it under the FR character limit.
Oh for crying out loud. This shiat is getting old.
one of our handsomest men, foot ball’s Michael Vick?????
one of our handsomest men, foot ball’s Michael Vick?????
It's not his race you frigging idiot, it's his lies, his marxism and his all out assault on The Constitution.
But you cant see that for all the hate clouding your vision.
But this piece is an incoherent disaster.
1610 is amazingly early in the history of British settlement! Do you mind telling me his last name? James Towne is one of my favorite “hobbyhorses”, as areas of amateur scholarship used to be called. My contention is that it is Jamestown, and not Plymouthe, that is the true foundation of America.
There are certainly “black” ancestors in my family’s heritage, although they were called “Indians” by relatives in the 1940s and 1950s.
You comment is fascinating - a true insight into the genetic admixture that only our country’s history can create. I suppose that only some areas of the former Mesopotamia or some Mediterranean islands would have such remarkable stories of the meeting of various peoples and cultures made tangible flesh.
Have you ever written a history of your family and ancestry?
I’m Huron Indian, English, Scottish, Irish, German, Dutch. So there.
His lineage is his method to divert attention away from his nutty marxist political agenda.
What a maroon.
We hate Bummer’s politics and it wouldn’t matter if they were being uttered by a white redhead hick like Jimmuh Cahtuh, we’d still hate those politics.
Today’s first race card has been dealt.
Sizemore/Sisemore/various spellings. Took a look at my info and mistyped the date, actually 1619 not 1610 (on a laptop in front of the tv in the dark, sorry)
It’s very difficult to separate fact from legend or even outright fiction with this line. Plenty enough has been written about them, so no need for me to do it. DNA testing confirms the legendary native ancestry in the direct male line, which might be explained by an aspect of the legend, “Chief Opechancanough,” of Chincoteague, supposed half-brother of Powhatan. I’ve not been able to find any evidence of such a person, myself.
The stories are fascinating, though, to me at least. So much history. One of only two Tories in any of my lines, was a Sizemore. At least seven in the Revolution.
Susannah Sizemore married Christopher Eaton, veteran of the Revolution, in 1781 if I’m not mistaken. His story is interesting in its own right. That’s where my maternal line comes in. Some of his descendants are also those on the Guion-Miller Rolls, that I mentioned.
Another line of mine with legendary native ancestry would be Hicks/Hickes/Hix/various spellings. It’s more of a tangle than Sizemore.
Just another angry black man.
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