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From: "Mills" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] African-American research and Americans withAfrican-American Ancestry
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 22:49:11 -0600
Referring to previous APG-L postings about the work of Dr. Virginia DeMarce,
published in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Elizabeth Whitaker
asked:
noted:
> I keep running into mysterious populations
> here in South Carolina, at least one of which waged a successful court
battle
> in the 1950s to get their kids into the white schools.
and then asked:
> Would this article be available from the NGS?
Both DeMarce articles can be ordered for a reasonable photocopying fee from
the NGS Library and other major libraries such as the Allen County-Fort
Wayne Public Library. The citations are:
Virginia Easley DeMarce, " ' Verry Slitly Mixt': Tri-racial Isolate Families
of the Upper South--A Genealogical Study," NGS Quarterly 80 (March 1992):
5-35.
DeMarce, "Looking at Legends--Lumbee and Melungeon: Applied Genealogy and
the Origins of Tri-racial Isolate Settlements," NGS Quarterly 81 (March
1993): 24-45.
Virginia discusses a number of "groups" of similar origin throughout
theSouth, including the so-called Brass Ankles, Red Bones and Turks fo South
Carolina.
Elizabeth Whittaker also commented:
>There is a certain amount of speculation about some of former President
Carter's
>ancestry. Much to my surprise, President Eisenhower may have had African
<ancestry.
Investigations of Bill Clinton's and Warren G. Harding's ancestries have
raised similar questions. In Clinton's case, it's his S.C. Gibson line (a
family covered in Virginia's work, although not in the context of Clinton).
In Harding's case, it's his Virginia Harding line. And, of course, in the
case of at least a couple of presidents born north of the Mason-Dixon line,
their African ancestry comes through English royal lines. And all of this
points to one of the wonderful things about genealogy: honestly done, it can
do more to promote ethnic respect, as well as international peace and
cooperation, than any political decrees or social pressures. Genealogy,
truly, shows us that we are all cut from the same few cloths.
Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
Editor, NGS Quarterly
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