Tuesday, February 27, 2007

A family affair


This has been one of the better Black History months in my opinion here on the planet Earth. We had the Super Bowl, The Oscars just a couple of nights ago and now this? Now how funny is this? Genealogists decided to have some fun for this month and man...how are the holidays going to play out this year? Cousin Al presiding over Thanksgiving dinner with his new found family with me at the kids table talkin'bout PREACH ON,NIGGA! As said in The Seattle Times:
Alexander Sharpton's son Jefferson married a woman named Julia Ann Thurmond, who turns out to have been Strom's first cousin twice removed, according to the genealogists. When Jefferson died broke in 1860, patriarch Alexander transferred ownership of "Coleman, age 25 years, Biddy (female) age 22 years old, Harrison aged about 4 years and Bachus aged about 8 years" to Jefferson's four children, along with "the future increase of the said female slave."

I wonder if I'm kin to any famous white folks? Oh...and did you know this???

Uncle