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Slavery’s Descendants

December 26, 2018 By dionneford 2 Comments

Along this journey of digging up my family's history, I met many other descendants of slavery including members of the national organization Coming to the Table. I was honored to be asked to help edit an anthology of some of the members' stories. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: African American History, Ancestry, anthology, family history, genealogy, Multiracial families, slavery, Uncategorized, writing Tagged With: Anthology, Rutgers Press, slavery, Slavery's Descendants, writing

Carnival of African American Genealogy: Grandmother's Hands

April 12, 2010 By dionneford 9 Comments

My great-grandmother, Marie Watson Anderson, was always busy. Born Lucy Marie Anderson in Texas in 1899, she spent most of her life in Oklahoma. At some point, she had her name legally changed to Marie because she liked it better than Lucy. She worked as a housekeeper, raised … [Read more...]

Filed Under: African American History, Ancestry, family history, Multiracial families, Uncategorized Tagged With: Carnival of African-American Genealogy

Treasure Chest Thursday: Great-Grandmother, Josephine: FOUND!

April 8, 2010 By dionneford Leave a Comment

One of the biggest mysteries in the search for my family's history was that of my great-grandmother, Josephine Burton Ford for whom this blog is named.  Born and raised in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, she was married there, raised a family there, but disappeared after the 1920 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: African American History, Ancestry, geneology, Mississippi, Multiracial families, U.S. Census Tagged With: Treasure Chest Thursday

This Week's Genealogy Find: Another Cousin

April 6, 2010 By dionneford Leave a Comment

The foundation of my research on my paternal ancestors comes from documents donated by my distant cousin, Renee Smith.  Renee gave her information on our family, including the amazing photo of my great, great-grandmother, Temple Burton with her former owners, the Stuarts to Ray … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ancestry, family history, geneology, Multiracial families Tagged With: Cousins

Treasure Chest Thursday: My 60 year-old Grandparents earn their GEDs

March 25, 2010 By dionneford Leave a Comment

When my maternal grandparents were in their 60s, they decided to go back to school to get their GEDs. Alonzo Walton and Louise Coleman Walton both grew up on farms around the turn of the century.  The Waltons owned theirs, and the Colemans were sharecroppers.  Like a lot of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Abraham Lincoln, African American History, family history, Ford, mulatto, Multiracial families Tagged With: Grandparents

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FINDING JOSEPHINE

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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