I would like to know where my paternal grandmother, Mariah Green (also spelled Maria or Marie; maiden name unknown),…
I’m African American, but about a year ago I received the results of genetic testing, which indicated that I’m 5…
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My family oral history is adamant about my great-great-great-grandfather Joe Wheaton (also spelled Weeden, Whedon,…
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My research into my family origins reveals that in the 1680s, Maudlin Magdelen Magee, an Irish woman who was married…
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The past always informs the future, and never more so these days than in Finding Your Roots, the PBS program hosted…
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I recently discovered that I have an ancestor listed as “mulatto” on the 1850 and 1860 census records. Her name is…
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I have a great-great-great-great-great-grandmother who was on the 1817 Cherokee Roll: Lucy Briant, No. 91. But she…
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In 1932, the poet Langston Hughes spent Christmas in the “dusty, coloured, cotton-growing South” of Uzbekistan, then…
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I am trying to confirm whether my free-person-of-color ancestors in and around Northampton County, N.C., emigrated…
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I am trying to learn more about my family’s history. My mother, Ora Lean Johnson, is from Alexandria or Shreveport,…
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My great-grandfather Abe Davis was born in Texas (well, actually, Mexico) in September 1835. As of 1870, he was…
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Sixty years ago, Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Ala., sparked a yearlong…
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I have done a lot of research into my family’s Madagascar ancestry, but I want help understanding how my mother’s…
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I’m trying to find out if my grandfather and great-uncles fought in World War I and if they were assigned to the…
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Editor’s note: This column has been updated to reflect additional information received after it was published via a…
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I have always been told by my grandfather Ruben Lavelle Ingram Jr. that his grandmother, Zula Bell Harry, was Native…
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There are relatively few detailed, firsthand accounts of the 12 million Africans captured and forcibly transported…
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I read your column “Do Most Whites Have Traces of African DNA, as I Do?” with interest. The questioner in that…
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I have been working on my family tree for the past two years and have become stuck. My great-great-grandfather…
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My third-great-grandfather Hypolite LaFargue Jr. (born 1819) shows up in the 1850 census in New Orleans as a mulatto…
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