tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4773058005679938889.post5158214284821639756..comments2023-07-06T08:55:09.782-07:00Comments on Your Genetic Genealogist: Autosomal DNA: A Revelation for African Americans Searching for their Roots Your Genetic Genealogisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14696248341534125135noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4773058005679938889.post-11551857781207033322014-09-02T12:43:05.813-07:002014-09-02T12:43:05.813-07:00Hello,this is just completely amazing and i am exi...Hello,this is just completely amazing and i am exited for these people honestly and this will give African Americans confidence and fill that void.I know why African-Americans are excited this will give them courage and strength to believe in themselves,this is really good for self empowerment.Best wishes:)<br />-------------------------------->><br /><a href="http://streamafrica.com/culture_cats/history" rel="nofollow">discover Africa history</a><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14291520728896721344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4773058005679938889.post-46077321293110863582013-08-31T09:39:36.512-07:002013-08-31T09:39:36.512-07:00I also remember very briefly learning about slaver...I also remember very briefly learning about slavery in my American history class. My history teacher was my favorite. She was so passionate and engaging. Unfortunately we glossed over slavery in about 10 minutes one day and never went back to it. When we got toward the end of the school year I asked her when we were really going to talk about slavery. By that point we had already started on WWI so she said she had not had enough time to discuss it. She did the same thing when I asked the next year about why our world history course consisted of an entire semester on European history. When were we going to talk about African, Asian, Latin American history...you know the rest of the world. She told me once again that we did not have enough time. She became so obviously uncomfortable I felt like she was lying to me. So I kept questioning her about why she had not planned more time for "the world" in world history. She eventually snapped at me and said she needed to prepare for the next class. I was so disappointed I stopped paying attention to her in class. Once I realized that something similar was going on in the other history classes I joined the African American History club. Then every time that teacher gave us a project I would find a way to work black/Mexican/Chinese... history into that project. If she wasn't going to teach us real American history than I was going to do it. <br />I think its a shame how little things have changed in the classroom between the 1960's/70's and the early 2000's when I was in high school. After talking with my 16 year old niece I know there has been some progress and a lot of it has to do with the teacher. If the teacher cares about teaching the truly complex history of our world then the students will learn it in the classroom. Otherwise the few students who care will teach themselves outside of the classroom.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4773058005679938889.post-71412854082512377442013-08-27T10:44:18.894-07:002013-08-27T10:44:18.894-07:00Thanks for getting the permission to share this ex...Thanks for getting the permission to share this experience of Charles Holman, CeCe. I remember secretly researching African American history each Saturday in the public library from the time I was in the fourth grade. I checked out books on Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and others. I kept these book with me during the week, and read them during my spare time in class. They were different from the books found in our school library, and the faces were different from the ones in our text books. Because I found the writings of successful people who looked like me, I knew I was capable of great things from the fourth grade on. Robin R. Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10520036289307741520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4773058005679938889.post-46300477511839450042013-08-26T13:36:39.378-07:002013-08-26T13:36:39.378-07:00Barb, with CeCe's permission, I'm replying...Barb, with CeCe's permission, I'm replying to ask that you contact me via email so I can ask you a follow up question, please. My email address is legalgenealogist (at) gmail.com. Thank you!Judy G. Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09684727163817159899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4773058005679938889.post-77084800138657614742013-08-26T13:27:07.138-07:002013-08-26T13:27:07.138-07:00Beautifully stated, Barb! I agree with everything ...Beautifully stated, Barb! I agree with everything you said here. DNA is uncovering all sorts of secrets - both good and bad. I think eventually most of our family mysteries will be solved through DNA. Thanks for commenting!<br />Your Genetic Genealogisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14696248341534125135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4773058005679938889.post-68101847066027395952013-08-26T12:29:03.240-07:002013-08-26T12:29:03.240-07:00Lenny Zimmerman left this comment, but it accident...Lenny Zimmerman left this comment, but it accidentally got deleted, so I am reposting it:<br /><br />Great response by Mr. Holman. Thanks for sharing, CeCe! Your Genetic Genealogisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14696248341534125135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4773058005679938889.post-7432342690279195332013-08-26T10:26:31.828-07:002013-08-26T10:26:31.828-07:00I want to say that Charles Holman is a very lucky ...I want to say that Charles Holman is a very lucky person to hang in there all these years and discover who he really is. I am searching too, and I am trying to find out who my grandmother's real parents are? We have solid genealogy on paper, but as a white person, I have African DNA of about 6% which means that my grandmother's family descended from slaves in Louisiana or Alabama. She was born in New Orleans. More than likely my grandmother's ancestors were French-Canadian and Creole. I was able to determine which grandmother the African-American came from by testing two sets of 1st cousins, one set on my mother's side and one set on my father's side. So as you can see there is a reverse-side to slavery and it also affects other ethnic groups. Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04301428635696488946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4773058005679938889.post-61178880440021707502013-08-26T08:40:38.624-07:002013-08-26T08:40:38.624-07:00Thanks for the info on the above tools. I made a ...Thanks for the info on the above tools. I made a comment about the doors this opened on an earlier blog by mistake.Wanderin'https://www.blogger.com/profile/18099094689836499939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4773058005679938889.post-35199466726574076742013-08-25T19:30:24.317-07:002013-08-25T19:30:24.317-07:00DNA knows no shame or pride - it gives you the fac...DNA knows no shame or pride - it gives you the facts, the untidy truth of where you originate and sometimes the glory of a happy history. We are all human and our ancestors were just like us. I love the fact that there is no illusion to what is there with DNA. You just need to keep looking, and with some compassion, realize that our forebears made choices,some good, some very bad-just like today. You have to be brave to chase the DNA - you don't know what is there, but you can be sure it will be interesting. In my family, an illegitimate pregnancy made a woman in 1879 face terrible shame, but then, it would not be that different in many more more recent generations (like 1950!). In 2013, life for her would have been much different and she would face no judgement from her 2x great grand-daughter...but figuring out what happened (she refused to name the father on the birth cert) has taken DNA as a tool for me and I am still rooting it out. There is a story here and I want to know who he was - there are so many surnames that come up in all my DNA profiles that don't appear in my own extensive tree -- are they his (the father's) family? Will they point me to the right William Ward in Lincolnshire, England in 1879? DNA is my only hope to find the cousins that are also unaware of me. I doubt any of us care what happened in 1879, but to find family -- priceless!Barb Gallagherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05153693296869611311noreply@blogger.com