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Sometimes, history can surprise you.
Topic Started: Jul 17 2016, 05:48 AM (51 Views)
Jolly
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Geaux Tigers!
Every now and then, I tune in:

http://www.pbs.org/genealogy-roadshow/home/

I was watching an episode the other night, where a young woman of what we used to call Creole heritage was letting them research her genealogy. It came as no surprise that her great grandfather, two or three times removed, was spanish and his wife was black, and they lived in New Orleans in the early 1800's.

What probably came as a surprise, is that both of those ancestors were slave owners before they were married, which means the lady was a free black and had money. All of their children were listed as black, in the subsequent censuses of the time.

Interestingly enough, one of their sons enlisted and fought for the South during the Civil War. His name is enshrined upon a Confederate monument.

She is eligible for admittance to the Daughters of the Confederacy.
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