
When asked to research the ancestry of a mixed-race woman, I thought it would probably be a short search as records for African Americans tend to disappear before the Civil War. I was totally wrong. At least two lines of MeShawn's ancestry were Free-Blacks who lived above the...

When asked to research the ancestry of a mixed-race woman, I thought it would probably be a short search as records for African Americans tend to disappear before the Civil War. I was totally wrong. At least two lines of MeShawn's ancestry were Free-Blacks who lived above the...