I discovered my family through ancestry. I was able to locate my biological father and mother. While I communicated with them I never made the time to visit and meet them in person. They have both since passed away and I regret it. If you have the chance to discover your family, your roots, your history do it. You won’t regret it.
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❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I appreciate you speaking so articulately about these issues. I also appreciate the fact that you share your own story and help to bring up some of these boundary issues with phenotypes and racial identity. Keep putting out the good content professor.❤❤❤❤❤❤
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My mom is from Mexico. My dad, is from Ecuador, and I managed to track down the indigenous nations in Ecuador that we descend from following the death of my Ecuadorian Grandparents. Salasaca nation of the Andes, and the Napo Runa nation of the Amazon. It’s great to finally have a name for the people whose features have lined my face and insights have lined my brain my entire life. I’m trying to become a wildlife veterinarian, and I just graduated college, but it’s been really hard to get a job as a vet assistant right now due to the job market and overtaking of AI usage for the hiring process. My abuelitos were from Quito and I hope to do a masters there studying Tropical Conservation and Ecology before going to vet school. I want to work with these communities that I descend from directly to improve their access to the veterinary, ecological, and conservation fields — where their insight is much needed as uni researchers often waste limited funds finding answers that indigenous nations already have known and whose involvement in conservation projects more often then not lead to success stories since they’re affected by the same colonial/industrial realities that are causing animals to go extinct. Just trying to get employment and save up to continue my education in Ecuador in two years. Trying to stay sane with everything that’s been going on by watching channels like this, and writing a book in the meantime. That’s where I’m at. Hope you all are well take care <33
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I've been messing around with ancestry website and chat gpt. I've found a lot of ancestors going back 200 years
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Last year I scrambled and borrowed money so my family could visit my uncles family when he died. Never met any of them. Had such an awesome time. Connected for life.
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I've been researching my family and have gotten all the way back to the 1400-1500's but I haven't gotten any satisfaction on finding extended family from any of my black relatives. It's very frustrating as I have found some very interesting things but the empty spots are what I am searching for.
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I’m a Romanian orphan living in America via adoption. I am actually about to mail off a letter to my birth family. I got their address and translated it. I hope they respond but the older gen is illiterate . I also found out thru a dna test that my black heritage is actually from Australia and Melanesia and only a small percentage from Africa. Which is weird because in America they pegged me as Black and as such experienced horrible racism including school segregation. But either way I’m still proud.
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Hi! I just discovered your channel by searching for Findians (I live in that part of the US). if you're interested, I'm the child of a North Korean defector who escaped during the war. I was born in Korea and my brother and I were raised in Indiana, where he was born. (Side note, but Indiana is the opposite of Korea, so our experience was...unique.) I'd be happy to chat, and I'm sure my brother would too, , if you're curious about what that was like!
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Hey Danielle, can you make a video on Susie Guillory Phipps? She was a Creole woman from Louisiana who sued the Louisiana State Court for having documented her race as "Colored". She did this at age of 48 in 1970 if I am not mistaken. Third, Ms. Phipps lived all her life as a White woman, she married White men and raised White children. Even more surprising is that Ms. Phipps claimed she never knew she was of African descent. Susie even said that she shocked and sickened when she found that out. Her 4x Great Grandmother Margarita was an enslaved Black woman born in Africa.
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If you belive in the bible we are all technically realted and brothers & sisters.
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I used to think I would want to meet some of the family I never knew. I got over it. It would just be more people for me to scream at and start a war with. I am trying to stop coming here to your channel. Just to leave you alone. Family is not what I'm searching for now. When I was little and people would ask, "what do you want to do when you grow up?" I would always answer, "I want to have a family." When they asked what I would do if I was given a million dollars, I always said that I would buy a house and land and try to invest the rest of it so that I could have the things I needed without having to worry so much. I got nowhere close to either of those goals, probably farther away now than I have ever been. I am sick. I feel like dying.
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A few years ago, I went to Louisiana FOR THE FIRST TIME, and met my extended family. If you are reconnecting with your roots, wherever they are hidden, take that scary step forward. I'm planning our first scheduled live stream, and I want to focus on your family stories and questions. I'll discuss them live and we can crowdsource some research. What are you working on right now? Stay tuned for this week's livestream info!Everyone deserves to know where they come from. :)
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