This is a photo of Homer Plessy, a black man:

This is the saying some where on Ancestry.com: White people or European-Americans are least likely to search their genealogy and/or do genetic-DNA testing for these fears: White people from the North and Northeast are fearful to find Jewish ancestry and White people from the South are afraid to find African/Black…

My 3x great grandfather was born a slave in Virginia in 1800. After he bought his freedom in 1836, he married and moved to Windsor, Ontario via Chicago and Detroit. My great great grandfather and his brother fought in the Civil War for the 27th Michigan Volunteers. They were shunned by the rest of the family because…