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I've been doing my own genealogy this year and I recently spoke to a private investigator about a uncle I never knew about that just past.
Long story short he mentioned that alot of the Native Americans in Louisiana and Texas were required to document themselves as Black or Mulatto rather than simply Native American. He stated that it is an excessive and drawn out process to Separate Native American Lineage from African American Lineage for cases like mine. He would need to uncover and try to decipher documents from the early 1800's to try to determine if someone was Native American vs Black. He would also need to pull up slave documentation as well.
So yeah, I have photos of my ancestors from the 1800's with Big Noses and Straight hair that are documented as Black. Native Americans went though a nearly complete Genocide thus making it very hard to identify Native American lineage other than a grandparent telling their grandchild who they are and them taking it for face value.
@Diego Pasta I feel you bro. Especially the part about people thinking I'm Dominican lol. I've come to the conclusion that facts don't matter to a few people in this thread and opening book or doing research doesn't feed their ego as much as regurgitating something they heard from whichever hoteper sounds good at the time.
Long story short he mentioned that alot of the Native Americans in Louisiana and Texas were required to document themselves as Black or Mulatto rather than simply Native American. He stated that it is an excessive and drawn out process to Separate Native American Lineage from African American Lineage for cases like mine. He would need to uncover and try to decipher documents from the early 1800's to try to determine if someone was Native American vs Black. He would also need to pull up slave documentation as well.
So yeah, I have photos of my ancestors from the 1800's with Big Noses and Straight hair that are documented as Black. Native Americans went though a nearly complete Genocide thus making it very hard to identify Native American lineage other than a grandparent telling their grandchild who they are and them taking it for face value.
@Diego Pasta I feel you bro. Especially the part about people thinking I'm Dominican lol. I've come to the conclusion that facts don't matter to a few people in this thread and opening book or doing research doesn't feed their ego as much as regurgitating something they heard from whichever hoteper sounds good at the time.