Disir
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I like genealogy. Yours, mine, whomever. My founding families
:William Bradford (governor) - Wikipedia
William Penn - Wikipedia
And some others that would actually be classified as First Families rather than founding families and even more nobody important peeps. If I look at the other side of my family...........I am the Roman Empire.
The NYT always has an agenda. I wouldn't trust those people as far as I could throw them. Ya, I know they are all out on capitalism............which is why everyone is flipping out. AND they say so behind a paywall. I didn't read through the essays they have on the 1619 project. I'm not interested in hunting that down.
Be that as it may, there are some interesting stories . The DNA test from an elder in the family showed they were from Ghana rather than Angola. The reality is that they might not ever know but they are taking care of a cemetery with about 100 unmarked graves involved. I'm ok with some of the stories that come out of this. They are just ordinary people.
The NYT still pays a few columnists and editorial writers who are not on the Reservation, but their days are limited, true enough. Re the ]1619 Project', the only people I see touting that up have been racists cop killer fans like IM2 and his ilk, so I'll wait until somebody credible comes along and fill us in on it before I waste time researching it.
My brother had his DNA done, and it had a few surprises, but still mostly northern European, Norman, and Huguenots, the latter immigrating to South Carolina via Brittany and England, and the German relatives immigrating to first Georgia, then Tennessee, eventually fighting in the Civil War for the North in a Tennessee volunteer regiment; many Germans settled in Georgia were opposed to slavery, and were driven out of the 'Cotton Kingdom' early on, and migrated north. The poorer ones stayed and many died along with poor Irish immigrants building the levees around New Orleans and along the Mississippi; black slaves were too valuable to risk, so white laborers got the deadly dangerous low paying crap jobs in the south as well in the north. There are 10's of thousands of skeletons in those levees, just buried over where they fell dead on the job.
There was a time that I would read the NYT specifically for their global news. They ran two articles (at different times) before 2016 that made it impossible to take them seriously. The first was on education and presented as fact when it wasn't. The second was on bamboo crops and bringing those countries thus designated into the modern world by increasing their technology. As we all know the first thing we do to increase our children's mad tech skillz is have them grow bamboo. By 2016 I was done. The NYT Magazine is simply by extension and profit motivated.
You have relatives that died building the New Basin Canal? That is some interesting and largely forgotten history right there. Disposable people.