Slave Descendents to Reunite, Test DNA
More and more people are getting DNA tests to help them in their genealogical quest. This time it’s a group of people descended from slaves of President James Madison.
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Barack Obama’s Ancestor’s Were Slave Owners
We recently heard that Strom Thurmond’s ancestors owned Al Sharpton’s ancestors. Now it appears that Barack Obama’s white ancestors also owned slaves.
For anyone who has been living in a cave recently, Obama’s mother is a white American woman and his father is a black man from Kenya. According to a researcher, William Addams Reitwiesner, his mother’s ancestors owned slaves:
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Ancestry.com Expands African American Collection
Interest in genealogy is growing among black Americans. This is probably largely due to all the buzz about Oprah’s roots and her DNA test and all that jazz. Well, whatever. As long as it generates an interest in genealogy, it’s all good.
Ancestry.com has just launched a large collection of African American records:
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