DNA helps unscramble the puzzles of ancestry

Sacramento Bee ^ | August 3, 2003 | Stephen Magagnini

[BenLurkin]

My folks always said we were descended from royalty. But when I did the geneology thing this is what I came up with:

Oh well.

[blam]

Englishman Adrian Targett found a 9,000 year-old relative in Cheddar Man.
The world's oldest family tree.

[Coyoteman]

Lets see. Two parents, four grandparents... You do the math.

Figure 25 years per generation. After a while you have a LOT of folks to choose from!

[thatdewd]

Some of the names I am researching are: Byars, Criddle, Gann, Gable, Long, McNeil, McRae, Parke, Ray, Shockley, Walden, and Wooten.

I see you're from Alabama. The Ray family you're researching wouldn't be from Northwest Alabama would it? (Marion/Franklin/Lamar counties)

[gaijin]

for me, anyplace in Africa would have been a good place," said Moore.

Only a man who has never been to Africa could say such a foolish thing.

[Sinner6]

bump for later read

[MamaB]

The only thing I know for certain is that John {W} Ray married Luvenity Harley and moved or lived in the Chickasaw County area of MS. He was from Alabama but we do not know any other information. There are several of us who are researching his family. Their daughter married a Criddle and lived in MS, too. It is like these Rays just dropped down from space and decided to stay! I think that John was born in the early 1800's.

[MamaB]

Forgot to reply about NW AL. It is very possible that he was from that area since some of the other families were from there. The Ganns lived in that area and I have discovered that all the families I am related to moved from area to area before getting married into the different families. Guess they thought moving with families you knew was a lot safer than trusting strangers back then.

[thatdewd]

It is like these Rays just dropped down from space and decided to stay!

The Rays in my line are like that too. They're one of the least known branches in my tree, which is nuts considering I grew up in that area and my family is still there. I checked my notes but couldn't find anything that seemed to relate them to yours. I did find Luvenity listed as Luventia in some web searches, but didn't find any more than what you listed in your post, other than the dates. If I run across yorn while a'lookin fer mine, I'll let you know.

[SunkenCiv]

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[FOG724]

You like digging up fossils don’t you?

[SunkenCiv]

It's a hobby. ;')

[RJL]

He knew he was more than just a "colored" child of the segregated South, that his legacy extended beyond the slave ships that brought 12 million Africans across the Atlantic.

I'd like to know where they found that number, it doesn't sound correct.

The US Bureau of the Census shows the total US population of blacks at:

1790 – 760,000
1860 – 4,400,000
1950 – 15,000,00
1980 – 27,000,000
1990 – 30,000,000

I don't believe that many slaves were brought across the Atlantic, but if they did, the vast majority of slaves were brought somewhere other than the United States.

[blam]

"I don't believe that many slaves were brought across the Atlantic, but if they did, the vast majority of slaves were brought somewhere other than the United States."

Look to Brazil. Brazil has the largest number of Blacks than any country outside Africa.

[SunkenCiv]

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