Roots Recovered: Reclaiming Our Names (June 2024 updated version)

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Original Air Dates: 2/23/24, 6/19/2024
"Roots Recovered: Reclaiming Our Names" is a documentary from 13News Now that explores the growing interest African Americans have in discovering their ancestral names. The research is a challenge because the names of enslaved people before 1870 were often not documented.
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@valeriewilliams1103 3 ай бұрын

The United States took all melinated people and made them all African Americans. My great grandma wasn't African she was Indian. The person conducting the census changed the family's tribal names to common names. Her name is Whining Rivers and her sister's name is Muddy Rivers, and they were changed to Winnie and Mattie Rivers.

@lf1496 3 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣 Right 😉I'm Yoruba Nigerian and found my Nigerian cousin on ancestry DNA and she looked just like my sister. You are ridiculous🙄

@MsLhuntMartinez79 3 ай бұрын

Same. That happened to a lot of our people. Many of them were removed from the Dawes Rolls in the late 1800s.

@Beauti23 3 ай бұрын

My great great granfathers surname was Rives from Ritters, NC. His first name ent from Boatswain to Bosan.

@Zaycream21 2 ай бұрын

@@lf1496 Everyone has a different story is the point really. But we also have many ancestors so we each may have lineage in both American Indian as well as some nations of Africa and other places such as Europe , India, middle east, asia etc... glad you found some of your people though; a beautiful thing to reconnect a link once broken before.

@MaSungoddess777 2 ай бұрын

Right my Grandmother always said she was indigenous / Indian to the Americas not from Africa.

@kaleahcollins4567 2 ай бұрын

My fathers side have Harris as well Harris is written in many indigenous family names books

@Roslyn-wj1ee 2 ай бұрын

Deut 28:68.

@lesliea9548 3 ай бұрын

Being able to make these connections is so helpful for us all ❤

@lorettarambo2245 3 ай бұрын

We as a people so desperately need to find our ancestry. I want to do this and need to know where to start.

@MsLhuntMartinez79 3 ай бұрын

You can do your ancestry without DNA sites or with the free heritage sites. Start with yourself, then your folks, then theirs as far back as you can. I use Ancestry and I'm on it more than I'm on any social media. They have a lot of documents. It's that interesting. I also did a paid DNA site because my grandma didn't know her dad and I wanted to communicate with my DNA matches (100s of ppl). Found him and a plenty of US history in my records 😂 If you use the DNA test, don't put much stock in the percentages part. We have 128 5th great grandparents! 😂 Look up your family's documents. ❤ Remember, start with an open heart and an explorer's mind. Know something is gonna shock you. And that your family have WAY more information out here on them than you think. ❤ Good luck. It's waiting for you.

@rebajeanforever3700 3 ай бұрын

Another resource that is free look in newspapers is called Chronicling American. It's starts from like 1700s to like 1963. Also, family search is also free, but some of their stuff you have to exist it through another site but a good source to put your tree on and get lot information for free.

@kaleahcollins4567 2 ай бұрын

But what of the others who came under the dutch and Spanish before the English?

@SDBOGLE 2 ай бұрын

How is possible for millions of people from West Africa, Bantu people, that speaks 680 different languages yet none was ever documented as being spoken by anyone enslave. Those people,were in fact, Aboriginal to America, and the West Indies. the others, and not all black people were enslaved. The others, were as Abraham Lincon described as follows in his 1751 essay, Benjamin called them the sons of Africa..at point 23 & 24 in his Observations concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, (Yale University Library) (Just to add, the surname Douglas, is from Scotland and they too were black people and here are the facts as Benjamin Franklin said. 23. In fine, A Nation well regulated is like a Polypus; take away a Limb, its Place is soon supply’d; cut it in two, and each deficient Part shall speedily grow out of the Part remaining.4 Thus if you have Room and Subsistence enough, as you may by dividing, make ten Polypes out of one, you may of one make ten Nations, equally populous and powerful; or rather, increase a Nation ten fold in Numbers and Strength.5 And since Detachments of English from Britain sent to America, will have their Places at Home so soon supply’d and increase so largely here; why should the Palatine Boors be suffered to swarm into our Settlements, and by herding together establish their Language and Manners to the Exclusion of ours? Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion. 24. Which leads me to add one Remark: That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth. I could wish their Numbers were increased. And while we are, as I may call it, Scouring our Planet, by clearing America of Woods, and so making this Side of our Globe reflect a brighter Light to the Eyes of Inhabitants in Mars or Venus, why should we in the Sight of Superior Beings, darken its People? why increase the Sons of Africa, by Planting them in America, where we have so fair an Opportunity, by excluding all Blacks and Tawneys, of increasing the lovely White and Red? But perhaps I am partial to the Complexion of my Country, for such Kind of Partiality is natural to Mankind.

@ellebelle4094 Ай бұрын

Your "roots" are irrelevant. Ancestorial names cannot even be pronounced. You are the creation of your own knowledge and choices. Rejoice in that fact.

@adriennebrailsford6291 3 ай бұрын

I always found the high number of people named Moses and William or Willie in general and in my family to stand out.

@yahwehblessus 2 ай бұрын

Why would u show the Devil your Blessings. U don’t share sacred rituals with the Enemy

@kaleahcollins4567 2 ай бұрын

My father is a double Collins ( his parentage has no relations)

@priscillaartis-lukoko4396 3 ай бұрын

This was an outstanding documentary! It encourages me to continue on with the quest of finding out who my ancestors are. Kudos to you! ❤❤❤

@leotajackson5602 2 ай бұрын

I am even more determined to find my ancestors after watching this. I can only say thank you. I have gotten so much inspiration from their stories.

@katiopaaflika9921 2 ай бұрын

You know there is a place for spiritual pilgrimage for black in drcongo. Like mahomet for the muslin, budha for the Asian, etc, Simon KIMBANGU Kiangani is the person will Help you to know you want to know about your ancestors. It’s a all Prophesy that’s the people from the slave trade will come back and learn about their families, in nkamba in the north of Angola. We also are working reuniting the ancient empire of kongo( Angola-Brazzaville-Kinshasa) so all the children of Maman africa will come home and together build the most powerful kingdom 😢that’s will pull africa and africa will rule the world as it was meant to be . The NGO taking care of this is called coscec-af ( coalition of civil societies for the emergence of Congo and africa).