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Surnames: Chavis/Grant/Peavy/Williams/Coward/
Classification: Query
Message Board URL:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/1UI.2ACEB/239.242.243.263.265.1....
Message Board Post:
Just have to respond to your message regarding "not looking Indian." I live in Oklahoma. Native Americans do not all look the same, there are blue eyed Cherokees all over the place! In the Chavis family, we come in all shades. In my own family there are vast differences in skin tone. Because I have fair skin does not make me any less related to my Chavis family.
It is conceivable that your family is French, and your name just happens to be close to ours, or perhaps the same.
Most of us out of the NC/SC area know what we are, many have been deprived of rightful acknowledgement of that fact.
Those of us looking for answers to what happened to our ancestors, and how we all connect have little doubt as to who we are. We are the descendants of a very proud, private, in many cases, very poor group of people who lived off of the land and supported eachother in the survival of our families. Our ancestors were listed in census records under color as "M," some times it was "Mu," standing for Mixed or Mulatto. Some were listed as "W," it was all about skin tone. People of color had no rights in the early days. It is my intent to try to educate. Just had to respond. Sincerely.