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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mine too...in the hull of the ship
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+1 I don't think this is something to be proud of. Your ancestors are the reasons mine were here, and also the reason why I'll NEVER know my history beyond a few generations. [/quote]

I think you know that one of the reasons that people get excited about this is because they get more stories about their family with a well documented group like this and not because of any great pride. [/quote]

I understand what you're saying to an extent, but then why the license plates, special clubs in which you must verify your lineage (why not just come out and say "no blacks need apply"???), and the bragging? Even so, if its simply excitement over knowing your lineage, great. Keep it to yourself, and thank your lucky stars you and yours were on the right side of history. I know very little about my family history, beyond the fact that my last name is likely the name of the family that owned us, and the light skin, "good hair", and blue eyes that run in my family are the direct result of the rape of my foremothers. [/quote]

A reminder: on an anonymous board, try to avoid conflating the words of different posters, or worse, with the actions of people off the board. I have a regular VA license plate, don't belong to any social or fraternal groups, and why would I brag about having ancestors who participated in shoving people off their own land? I don't. Also, I'm not a mayflower descendant. What I do find interesting about my family history is that I can know when and where some of them died, which land they owned, how litigious they were (and some really, really were). The only reason I know these things, though, is because people very dedicated to genealogy pored over the books and papers and slips and then someone put it on the internet. My involvement was to type in an ancestor's name, and figure out who was who.  I think because the history is so painful and the documentation less complete, African-Americans haven't gotten into genealogy to the same extent as white people. Some of it is there.[/quote]

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