The following link navigates to my cousin, Patricia Bayonne-Johnson’s, blog describing information in a book detailing the history of our ancestors (Pre-Civil War Era). Our common ancestor was my 3rd Great-Grandmother, Martha (Morgan) Taylor. What stuns me about this book is that a few months prior to my knowledge of its existence, I created a rough pedigree chart for a few of our family members who were trying to piece together the nature of our relatinship. This book already had a pedigree of my family with more names than I knew, including, my 5th great-grandparents, Leven & Judy Weathers, the first ancestors I’ve discovered born in the 18th century!!!!
AFRICAN ROOTS: The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom 1750-1925: I have had this book for years and did not know that my ancestors were included until a couple of weeks ago. As you can see, it is a used…