Shaking the family tree...

[bobabode]

...you'll never know what will fall out.

http://thegrio.com/2013/11/12/white-...percent-black/

[merrylander]

I had better luck, traced my wife back to 7 X Great Grandparents. 6 X GGmother was titled, a Doña in Castile, Spain

[BlueStreak]

Ha, Ha! What a jackass..........

[mpholland]

I can only get back to my great-great-grandfather, Thomas Jefferson Holland. The trail goes cold back in Lincoln county, Tennessee before he hit the Oregon Trail.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Ha, Ha! What a jackass..........

Indeed. The white supremacist finds out that he is 14% black and calls it statistical noise and goes on to claim the oil and water don't mix...

[one1]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Ha, Ha! What a jackass..........

I have always known that no race is pure,Even hitler had some relatives he would rater not invite for dinner.I think all racists should do a search of the old tree before they sart hoopin' an a hollerin'

[one1]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Indeed. The white supremacist finds out that he is 14% black and calls it statistical noise and goes on to claim the oil and water don't mix...

Always gonna find a way to justify their belief's.

[BlueStreak]

My paternal grandfather was born in Scotland in the 1880s, his family landed in the Finger Lakes area of New York when he was a teenager. Grandmother on that side was born in Lillehammer, Norway, her family moving here when she was 6.

My mothers family can be traced all the way back to Norfolk, Virginia circa the 1690s. And that's where we simply run out of records. It's an English name, Wyndham, so we just assume that they came from there. When? We have no idea.

My mother always said she suspected there were blacks in her tree. 300+ years and the knowledge that some of the ancestors were indeed slave-owners, or at least had domestic servants, certainly presents lots of opportunity.

My take? I couldn't care less. Once the DNA strand is there, it's done, you can't change it. Besides, I've dated black women, so what?

Mention it to my brother and you may wind up taking an ambulance ride. He's such an ass.

Dave

[mpholland]

I lost my virginity to a black woman. Not really much of a reason there to hate 'em. I could really care less if there is some in my lineage.

[Oerets]

I'd like to get the test, anyone know how muck one cost?

My maternal side goes back to France in the late 1500's IIRC some Mi'kmaq mixed in once the settled in the New World. Fathers side early 1800's immigrants to PA., one side German the other English.

BTW the wife's 100% German ancestry, but Father was raised by an Irish couple after adopted. We are a blended society are we not?

Barney