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  • Were My Kin’s White Neighbors Descendants of My Ancestor’s Owners?

    Julia Ann Scott (born about 1840, died in December 1893) was my maternal great-great-grandmother, a “mulatto” woman who lived in Lunenburg County, Va. According to her marriage record to Willis Rainey on Aug. 15, 1868, her mother was M. Kensey, but no father was listed. I have suspected for some time that her father was…

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    Christopher Lee, Henry Louis Gates Jr.






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    July 17, 2015
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