All four of my grandparents immigrated to the United States from Hungary as adults. My DNA results were the purest I've ever heard. I was 99% Hungarian! No surprises there!

I have been following the channel for a few years now like to come back and watch

Amazing, ten years later! Hahom to all who share the journey!

Great video. Learned a lot

Congratulations! Still going strong! Keep on keeping on!

Im trying to figure out how some people have the same last name but not related.

There's not alot on Richard holloway and he was a big person of south carolina

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We just found the book of those who where born free ' just saw a podcast of someone who has book/ >

Welcome ... thank you ladys... im was also born in St.Louis...we have family in the N/S Carolina ....

Show me proof that so called Blacks came of ships from Africa. It is a Historical fact that many Indians copper tone alias Negro/Blacks was enslaved not just by so called white there was also so called Black European slave masters. The 1619 projects in references to the 20 odd Negroes show no proof that these people came from Africa. It is clearly conjecture. here is a quote: Historians have long believed these Africans to have come to Virginia from the Caribbean, but Spanish records suggest they had been captured in a Spanish-controlled area of West Central Africa. It starts of by saying believed they came from Virginia from the Caribbean (conjecture) then states Spanish records suggest they have been captured in Spanish controlled area of West Central Africa again conjecture or consideration. It is also a fact that the Spanish many who are Sephardic and Muslim Moors was of a swarthy complexion who used the term Negro/Black as a descriptive term for the Ingenious Aboriginal American Indians. Then it mentions the Anglo Powhatan Wars that slowed down the alleged trafficking of African which was in fact them, taken people from the South and North America's and Island's. To further show that the term Black which is Negro was given to Powhatan Wahunsonacock by Captain John Smith stating Powhatan, more like a devil than a man, with some two hundred more as black as himself. It is a shame you people are misinforming people by twisting to meet the narrative of an alleged African slave trade which did not happen until the late 1700's according to Slave Voyages.org. I am considered Black and have done my Genealogy and found no African but I did find Powhatan, Shawnee, Black Foot, Black Scottish/Irish and French to which some of the Scottish and Irish came from Iberia which take you right back to the Spanish who are from Iberia. Tell the Truth and stop this false interpretation of an African Slave trade.

Hm..the 1970s census is out there now? On the Louisiana 1900 census my ancestor was indicated as “AI” under her gender, it’s very clear to me it is an AI, perhaps American Indigenous or American Indian. I heard those indicators were changed to make it look like something else 🤨.

Im awake i know my kin folk from arkansas. I know im cherokee indian.

Thank you Beautiful for the much needed clarifications it is greatly appreciated ❤

18:46 so records from Natchez, Mississippi can be found in Louisiana? I just found out I’m related to abdul rahman ibrahima but I have no connection on how. Just DNA from others

So glad I found this presentation on LA and MS, and how to research! My family on both sides are only from LA and MS that I know of, and from many parishes. Many of my mtDNA and autosomal matches are spread all over LA and we’ve never been able to find a family connection, probably because of the nature of American slavery. I will listen a 2nd time and take detailed notes. Most valuable and relevant teaching I’ve had on these 2 states, and on how to do basic research. Thank you all!

Researching Red Shoals Plantation in Stokes Co NC .

I keep noticing something occurring from 1830 to 1850 Census in families in our area, there seems to be large increase in the population of the slaves on rural farms. Example; SC Rural back woods farmer owns 10 slaves in 1830 then in 1840 he owns 56 slaves. How does someone acquire that many slaves in 10 yrs? What happened in that time period that caused such a shift?

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Peace and love sister I love your your work I love to follow you but it's one time a couple of times you have a guest and the energy is not good with him so it's offensive so it pushes me away from watching your video I look for the videos that doesn't have this individual in it. (Non-masculent)

I hope I'm in the right place to ask a question. I'm looking for my GGF James Guess. I found him in the 1910-20-30-40-50 census with various spelling of his last name such as Guest. Goss. Graees. and Guess. Guest is in the 1930 census. Born in Louisiana. Goss is in the 1880 census also born in Louisiana. Graees is in the 1910 census born in Louisiana. Guess, who is in the 1940-50 census born in Louisiana. And, Guess is in the 1920 census born in Mississippi. After typing this out and seeing it on paper, I conclude that My James Guess was born in Louisiana, in 1872, and I don't have a birth or death Cert. I have traced My GGGMother Parthenia Osborne almost up to Charlotte Osborne and kids born in Arkansas where I found all of them, and My GGMother Litha Moore's family. I know it's too late to make a long story short. But how do I trace James Guess's family in Louisiana? when I don't know where in Louisiana. What little information I have is just in the 1950 census he was living with his daughter Willie Guess' Champ, separated. I still haven't found much about her. How do I find James Guess in Louisiana? Thank you all.

Greetings all! I have an original newspaper clipping of my great great grandmother's death announcement, obituary draft, and photo. She was born in natchez Mississippi. From a little black catholic prayer book, it appears either she or her daughter had a connection to the O.S.P. of Baltimore, MD. She was born Margaret or Maggie Miller. In 1930, in Leavenworth, KS, she married William Brown. She also married another man in 1945. Deacon Joseph R. Cromwell of The Second Baptist Church in Ann Arbor, Michigan. My search, also, surprisingly lead me to Nova Scotia. She passed in 1955 in Ann Arbor.

I must have watched this episode ten thousand times today. My family's enslavers lived in Chester county SC (after leaving colonial VA, and then migrated to KY) and I was able to find the loose papers today from 1789! Those documents confirmed relationships for me. Thanks for all you do (and your panel) to help us find our peeps. ❤

The first lie is the term (African American)

Virginia research is next on my list. Last night I found my 3X great grandfather on a SC estate bill dated 7 April 1790 - 4 months before the first US Federal census! I didnt initially recognize what I was even looking at. The currency was still in British pounds. I already knew my gfg grandfather was enslaved by his son so this was a great find. The slave owners were from VA but Im not sure yet which county or when they left VA for SC. I dont think there are any census records so I'll have to see what I can find in tax records perhaps. VA had a lot of records that didnt survive. I hope Im not at the end of road as far as records go, but if I am, Im glad to have gotten back to 1790.

Great show....

I don’t know my father and my mom didn’t know her parents. It’s impossible for me to find my roots and it sucks.

Thanks for sharing

That fact that these videos don’t have more than a million views or likes just motivates me even more to find my family lineage 😢 as African Americans we need to know and we to know are real history not what school told us…

Why not start at the beginning the slave kings and queen of Africa and the slave markets they ran, in deals with the north Atlantic slave trade company, made up of Spain, France and the English, then a high percentage arrived in the north before it was illegal, but legal to take a man off the street and bring him to a plantation from the north this was common then you in 1830, there were 3,775 black (including mixed-race) slaveholders in the South who owned a total of 12,760 slaves, William ellison being one of the biggest and I believe his son was the first black confederate on record, there's the full story no halfway truth! Who said that.

There wasn't a Field Office where my people were. Frustrating to think that I have to go on a wild goose chase to try and find out where they might have gone to get assistance. 😢

All of my great grandparents was born in Arkansas. Problem is: We Not from Arkansas. We did own slaves, tho. For those whose ancestors ended up in AR in the mid to late 1800s, your family were most likely plantation/farm/slaves owners. And them evil demons had to wait for your ancestor to die before they could steal the land. My father's side had plantations in North Carolina until my 4th great grandfather died in 1884. Lastly, Arkansas was once apart of the Louisiana Territory. That alone makes Louisiana better.

This was so informative. I’m learned so much. The most valuable thing was it gave me inspiration to persist trying to find slave info at a point in time when it would be easier for me to just give up.

Im biracial 57% European 43% African My dad is african american and my mom is white

I have a Freedmens Marriage Register for my great great grandparents. Underneath the clerk's name is another person with the initials DC following their name. Does anybody know what that stands for?

That all I have to work from is my grandmother on my mother side ,is her obituary. But am stuck there...because I have no BIRTH PLACE.

I just asked ChatGPT if the first African’s to arrive in the United States were servants ad this is what it said. Yes, the first Africans who arrived in Virginia in 1619 were brought as indentured servants, not slaves. Over time, the institution of slavery developed in the American colonies, but it wasn't fully established at that point.Indentured servants typically worked under a contract for a set number of years in exchange for passage to the New World, after which they could gain their freedom. Slavery as we know it in the United States became more entrenched in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Ben Carson is so whitewashed. The fact he used immigrants and slaves/enslaved is so telling. I've never seen him more than an accomplished clown and a face for the only "urban" office in the executive cabinet. Kidnapped Africans are *_never_* the same as immigrants who _willingly_ choose to come to the U.S. by whatever means necessary!

Black🖤, Negro & Colored North Americans 🇺🇸 are NOT Africans⚠️

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My name is Brandon Tillman my family was born in Little Rock Arkansas Jonesboro Arkansas pine bluff Arkansas but my mom last name is Harrison I took my dad last name

02:03:00: That's not a conclusive answer! 20 documents? 30 documents?! How much can I amass on an ancestor born in 1801? Like come on. It's difficult, yes not impossible but it's still an enormous task.

The playlist doesn't work in 2023! Can't add to it

01:05:00: Just point out the elephant in the room! The conference(s) are racist and don't want to hear the work of Black researchers and genealogists in the space. Don't be PC about it Ms. Angela! I wouldn't patronize them and support the conference if they have a preference for White and non-Black presenters. Thanks for all the library recommendations folks.

The links used need in the pinned comment section or the video description please!

44:20: Disobeying his Dad, he shouldn't be expected to live on the plantation *forever!* After emancipation, he should rightfully cut all ties. Thank God he was able to escape but his Dad is evil period for thinking his son would stay forever tied to him in more ways than one.

What part of Arkansas cause Little Rock Arkansas had no slaves

They have Blackfoot Indians there also and been there all there lives some moved to Canada never heard of Native American but Indians in Arkansas

Rice Ballard. Franklin ,Armfield Some off the largest slave traders in Virginia. Tredger, Lumpkins Jail.

Virginia is the South. We are not a part of the DMV. I had to say it again.