Re: ONE OF DARK COMPLEXION
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ONE OF DARK COMPLEXION
Wilbert Morell III 2/23/08
Have you participated in a y-dna test?That is the best starting point.Race was determined by the census enumerator not the individual being enumerated.There is one case that I know about--not a Murrell/Merrill/Morrell--where the individual was mulatto in one census, white in another, and Negro in another--and may have been legally white under the race laws of Tennessee.DNA testing has subsequently shown that his male line was African--although no one really knows his ancestor's path to the Continent.
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Re: ONE OF DARK COMPLEXION
Wilbert Morell III 2/24/08
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Re: ONE OF DARK COMPLEXION
Wilbert Morell III 2/24/08