Roots Recovered: Reclaiming Our Names (June 2024 updated version)

We as a people so desperately need to find our ancestry. I want to do this and need to know where to start.

Being able to make these connections is so helpful for us all ❤

My fathers side have Harris as well Harris is written in many indigenous family names books

I always found the high number of people named Moses and William or Willie in general and in my family to stand out.

This was an outstanding documentary! It encourages me to continue on with the quest of finding out who my ancestors are. Kudos to you! ❤❤❤

The United States took all melinated people and made them all African Americans. My great grandma wasn't African she was Indian. The person conducting the census changed the family's tribal names to common names. Her name is Whining Rivers and her sister's name is Muddy Rivers, and they were changed to Winnie and Mattie Rivers.

My father is a double Collins ( his parentage has no relations)

But what of the others who came under the dutch and Spanish before the English?

Deut 28:68.

Its our names

You know there is a place for spiritual pilgrimage for black in drcongo. Like mahomet for the muslin, budha for the Asian, etc, Simon KIMBANGU Kiangani is the person will Help you to know you want to know about your ancestors. It’s a all Prophesy that’s the people from the slave trade will come back and learn about their families, in nkamba in the north of Angola. We also are working reuniting the ancient empire of kongo( Angola-Brazzaville-Kinshasa) so all the children of Maman africa will come home and together build the most powerful kingdom 😢that’s will pull africa and africa will rule the world as it was meant to be . The NGO taking care of this is called coscec-af ( coalition of civil societies for the emergence of Congo and africa).

How come none of our ancestor's have connections to the original american Indians?.

How is possible for millions of people from West Africa, Bantu people, that speaks 680 different languages yet none was ever documented as being spoken by anyone enslave. Those people,were in fact, Aboriginal to America, and the West Indies. the others, and not all black people were enslaved. The others, were as Abraham Lincon described as follows in his 1751 essay, Benjamin called them the sons of Africa..at point 23 & 24 in his Observations concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, (Yale University Library) (Just to add, the surname Douglas, is from Scotland and they too were black people and here are the facts as Benjamin Franklin said. 23. In fine, A Nation well regulated is like a Polypus; take away a Limb, its Place is soon supply’d; cut it in two, and each deficient Part shall speedily grow out of the Part remaining.4 Thus if you have Room and Subsistence enough, as you may by dividing, make ten Polypes out of one, you may of one make ten Nations, equally populous and powerful; or rather, increase a Nation ten fold in Numbers and Strength.5 And since Detachments of English from Britain sent to America, will have their Places at Home so soon supply’d and increase so largely here; why should the Palatine Boors be suffered to swarm into our Settlements, and by herding together establish their Language and Manners to the Exclusion of ours? Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion. 24. Which leads me to add one Remark: That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth. I could wish their Numbers were increased. And while we are, as I may call it, Scouring our Planet, by clearing America of Woods, and so making this Side of our Globe reflect a brighter Light to the Eyes of Inhabitants in Mars or Venus, why should we in the Sight of Superior Beings, darken its People? why increase the Sons of Africa, by Planting them in America, where we have so fair an Opportunity, by excluding all Blacks and Tawneys, of increasing the lovely White and Red? But perhaps I am partial to the Complexion of my Country, for such Kind of Partiality is natural to Mankind.

I find out my ancestors are white I’m 13%England Northwestern Europe

It’s sad that we have to do ALL of this…. The kidnappers were never held accountable