Greetings, My name is Cynthia and I have become our family's unofficial historian. I inherited the job from my uncle who once did everything the old fashioned way by going to court houses and libraries to do research. He would present his findings at family reunions, and I saved everything he handed out. Once genealogy went online, I started to enter and search for the names of the people on those documents, and I was amazed and hooked. I found out about Wikitree yesterday, and decided to see what it was about. I have gotten to a place where I am stuck. I am primarily interested in African American genealogy, but we also have some European ancestry that I am trying to sort out. I feel like I have done a pretty good job piecing things together considering the challenges involved in researching African American Genealogy. DNA testing has been very helpful. We used AncestryDNA, and I had the oldest living member of each branch of the family take the test, in hopes that it would help with accuracy. Currently, I am searching for Dorseys from Troup County, Georgia and Lee, Alabama. Primarily, Ritter Dorsey b. 1800 and her family, who were free persons of color. I am also looking for Porches from Pike and Meriweather County, Georgia. We have several DNA matches to European people who list Hannah Wrenn (b. 1743) as a common ancestor. I have the same situation with John T. Hall (b. 1823) who is from Green County, Georgia. He died in Colorado. It is going to take a while to get things transferred over and cited, but I have to start somewhere. I am a little concerned that this may be too much for me. Because of work and family I cannot do this full time, and I have primarily used Ancestry because I need one stop shopping. However, it appears that Ancestry is not the primary choice here, but we will see what happens. I do like the idea of collaboration!
