black race family
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what specifically is your question? Tell us the details and we will be happy to help.
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what specifically is your question? Tell us the details and we will be happy to help.
There is a group specifically dedicated to African American Genealogy
https://community.familysearch.org/en/group/4-african-american-research
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Thanks for your response Dennis and apologies for the rather puzzling question.
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I don't know who tolerates racism in your offices, but please, be mature and don't bring it here; Stop assuming my family is "african-american" without proof. From my parents back, on my fathers' side, are all 'choctaw' Indian and I need you to revert all the unnecessary changes you made. Purposely whitewashing and contorting history has been done for way too long. Tikba ihiya mih k issa. Stop doing that. Feel free to call your own relatives "african-american", not mine. So issa, micha chi haklo la chike.
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This post was instigated by User15917837955393323917, who seems to be quite happy with the response.
How do you work out that anyone was being racist here - in assuming your family is "african-american"?
If your comments relate to a FamilySearch record that implies your family's origins are African American, when they are not, you should raise this as a separate issue providing full details. Hopefully, your complaint could then be investigated and addressed. Raising your point here is confusing and unhelpful.
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@rbullock2018, not to pile on, but when you say "I need you to revert all the unnecessary changes you made", who is the "you" that you believe you're addressing? Also, "unnecessary changes" where, in what part of FamilySearch's vast sprawl of website?
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I don’t know if the user is still around but I have some information that may be beneficial for Native American researchers viewing records especially Census records. As a researcher, as I researched my family genealogy throughout family lines, I’m discovering that I’m not just looking at family information but I’m viewing historical data. A lot of people aren’t aware of this, but during the early days of record keeping of the Census, there was a significant discriminatory practice of people of color within the Census that actually changed their racial identity. This was during the Jim Crow period all the way up to the 1920’s and 1930’s. A lot of records were tampered with by discriminating census officials and takers with taking instructions from one of the heads of the Vital Statistics data and Census department, Walter Plecker who was known to be a racist. Walter Plecker and other government officials during Jim Crow were proponents of a segregation policy law known as the Racial Integrity Act. Under this law, African Americans and Native Americans were intertwined. Within census records, a lot of Native Americans were racial misclassified as Black or Colored and even Mulatto due to their various skintones. Ultimately, segregationists did not want Native Americans to have their own identities due to the fact that some of them were living in mostly White communities and other reasons. You can Google this information.
By the way if you have African American ancestry, there is nothing wrong with that. I’m an African American researcher. I just noticed that the poster seems a bit upset about possibly having Black ancestry. I have White and Native American ancestry and I’m proud of my ancestry. I hope this message helps someone.
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