Over a year ago I was contacted by Nikki in an attempt to discover how we are related. Nikki and I are not of the same race, she's Black and I'm White. I've known for a long time that this would eventually happen. All of my family, both sides, comes from North and South Carolina, through Georgia and into Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Louisiana, and Arkansas. Some of my ancestors owned slaves. It's a history that is hard to wrap your head around. You want to respect and think well of your ancestors but the whole institution is hard to accept.
Nikki and I must be related through slavery.
We have no ancestral names in common but we do have locations. The Cheraws District of South Carolina and Woodville, Wilkinson, Mississippi. My father's family lived in Woodville and neighboring Amite County, Mississippi and East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana.
This is our journey to discover how we are related.
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