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Follow Friday: Andrew Jackson Wishes

May 5, 2017 By dionneford Leave a Comment

President Donald Trump's comments earlier this week lauding the seventh president Andrew Jackson reminded me of a document I recently found at the Library of Congress website while trying to track down anything about my great, great grandmother Tempy Burton's family.  The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: African American History, Ancestry, family history, Uncategorized Tagged With: Andrew Jackson, Civil War, Donald Trump, Eliza Burton, Library of Congress, Lost Friends, MD, Robert C. Hilliard, Southwestern Christian Advocate, Tempy Burton

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

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

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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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