Maria Montgomery found me on Ancestry.com in 2016. Our family trees overlap because my ancestors enslaved hers. We are “linked descendants”—cousins regardless of whether we share DNA. She asked if I had any probate records that might list people…
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The Gwynn’s Island Project Reconnects the Descendants of Black Island Families to their Roots
Tagged with: Ancestors, diaspora, Dolly Jones, Enslaved People, family history, Gwynn's Island, Hampton, James Henry Smith, Jim Crow Segregation (1890- 1955), land theft, linked descendants, Maria Montgomery, Mary T. Edwards, Mary T. Hudgins, Mary Tompkins Hunley, Mathews County, oral history, plantations, Slaveholders, Slavery, VA, Virginia, William Smith
Posted in Finding documents & doing research, Healing, repair & action, Linked Descendants, Slavery & its legacies
Posted in Finding documents & doing research, Healing, repair & action, Linked Descendants, Slavery & its legacies
