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DNA helps unscramble the puzzles of ancestry
Sacramento Bee ^
| August 3, 2003
| Stephen Magagnini
Posted on 08/03/2003 5:43:41 PM PDT by farmfriend
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:54:18 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Almost from the time he was old enough to read the "whites only" signs on department stores in Montgomery, Ala., Ulysses Moore has been on a quest. Where did I come from? he wondered.
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. Was he descended from Shaka Zulu or the great Mandinka warriors, or the builders of the ancient world's greatest library in Egypt?
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: ancestry; dna; genealogy; genetics; godsgravesglyphs
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To: mhking
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posted on
08/03/2003 8:22:59 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(Socialism is slavery.)
To: farmfriend
Englishman Adrian Targett found a 9,000 year-old relative in
Cheddar Man. The world's oldest family tree.
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posted on
08/03/2003 8:34:56 PM PDT
by
blam
To: decimon
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!
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To: MamaB
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)
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posted on
08/03/2003 8:56:12 PM PDT
by
thatdewd
To: farmfriend
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.
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posted on
08/03/2003 10:33:33 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: farmfriend
bump for later read
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posted on
08/04/2003 8:32:12 AM PDT
by
Sinner6
(Any one want to buy a chinchilla?)
To: thatdewd
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.
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posted on
08/04/2003 10:32:38 AM PDT
by
MamaB
To: thatdewd
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.
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posted on
08/04/2003 10:36:03 AM PDT
by
MamaB
To: MamaB
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.
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posted on
08/04/2003 7:44:56 PM PDT
by
thatdewd
To: blam; FairOpinion; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
01/24/2006 11:17:35 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(In the long run, there is only the short run.)
To: SunkenCiv
You like digging up fossils dont you?
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posted on
01/24/2006 11:20:24 PM PST
by
FOG724
(Governor Spendanator)
To: FOG724
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posted on
01/25/2006 12:03:32 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(In the long run, there is only the short run.)
To: farmfriend
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.
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posted on
01/25/2006 12:54:23 AM PST
by
RJL
To: RJL
"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.
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posted on
01/25/2006 7:43:59 AM PST
by
blam
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posted on
06/16/2010 8:04:50 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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