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An Oral Tradition

October 12, 2009 By dionneford Leave a Comment

When I read the New York Times article last week about Michelle Obama's ancestry, the fact that her family lore had suspected a white relative for years underscored the importance of gathering oral history.  For blacks, the paper trail often runs cold since many slave births and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: family, family history, geneology, Hilton Head, S.C., Uncategorized, vacation Tagged With: biracial, Dionne Ford, family lore, history, interracial, Michelle Obama, oral tradition, slavery, story telling

Finding Dionne

October 11, 2009 By dionneford Leave a Comment

by guest blogger, Monique Smith Anderson Early in the summer during the middle of the night, I came across a post that caught my eye on a popular ancestry website, but for some reason it took me three more nights to respond. Once I did, I was thrilled just hours later to find … [Read more...]

Filed Under: family, family history, geneology, Multiracial families, race, slavery Tagged With: African American, biracial, Civil War, history, interracial, slavery

Slaves and Masters in the Family

October 2, 2009 By dionneford Leave a Comment

Last night at dinner, my nine year-old daughter asked, "Why did we have slavery?" She has a knack for asking pointed questions, usually while we’re eating and my husband isn’t around to help me out with the answers. Dozens of moral and philosophical answers ticked through my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: family, family history, geneology, Multiracial families, race, slavery

Welcome to my family!

September 25, 2009 By dionneford 4 Comments

My earliest memories of my paternal grandfather, Martin Luther Ford, are of him sitting on his porch in the projects in the French Quarters of New Orleans. He was as white as any white man I’d ever seen, but I never questioned why he looked so different from my brothers and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: African American, Civil War, family, genealogy, history, interracial, Mississippi, New Orleans, slavery

Post Racial America? Not Yet.

July 21, 2009 By dionneford 1 Comment

Not only can you be arrested for driving while black, but add opening the door to your own house while black to the list of punishable offenses. At least that seems to be the charge in Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s case. The renown African American scholar (he's responsible for the … [Read more...]

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The search for my family's history began at age twelve when I asked the simple question, "Grandpa, are you white?"

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