While looking up my father’s geneology, I discovered one of his grandmother’s was listed on the 1900 census as “Colored”.
In checking through here parents’ backgrounds, I found that her father immigrated from Switzerland along with four of his brothers, and her beautiful blond, green-eyed mother’s background wasn’t mentioned. Oddly, my great-grandmother was never listed on any of the pre-1900 census’ as being one of their children. No one in the family ever spoke of her backgound except to say she was Italian-Swiss.
My great-grandfather, her husband, told my grandfather that they were part Indian, from a tribe in New England.
I have started putting multi-racial on such listings.
Have you had any success in your Genealogy research?
My problem has been similar ... Virgina (West Virgina) the Census didn’t count Indians or Colored ... my Grandmother was both and I haven’t been able to find anything about her parents ... (her siblings have also passed)
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