Anonymous Black

Black-20829 and Black-1271 appear to represent the same person because: [email address removed]

This is the same individual thank you.

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Loretta, please do not add Elizabeth Bragg or Susanna anymore to this particular Edward Bolling. The sources are there that he did not marry nor had children. Your source of the "Blue Bollings" of an Edward Bolling's marriage must be one of the "Blue Bollings" which is a different group Bollings as cited in the Shawnee Heritage book. Also the Pocohontas Association does not recognize the "Blue Bollings" in their resources. I know this is hard for you and maybe more research will land where your Bollings come from )-:.

There is an excellent theory by the Arrington researcher that may help which was discussed in G2G. I recommend that we contact the Native American project leaders to solve this issue. Are you a member of the project?

Btw, loved your Father's Mirage poem.

Here's the lowdown on Don's compilation (which sort of broke my heart) but good to know (-:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Shawnee_Heritage_Fraud

I just saw that you are in the Titanic project. Did you know that we have a Native American project?

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Native_Americans

Shirley, the leader, is very nice and Jillaine and Jeanie Roberts, are amazing historians. I hope you join. You seem to do a lot of research.

Hi Loretta, Thanks for any imput you can find for those profiles. You are correct that most Virginians have trouble doing their genealogy because so many records are gone )-;

I am one of those people that love the Shawnee Heritage book (it's on my bookcase from my Mom's collection). But after studying genealogy in school, I found it's a bit hard to use Don's book as a source anymore. Especially since Bill Deyo, the Virginian Tribal Historian, said that it was not reliable. Bill has actually been in touch with some of our WikiTree Native American folks a few years ago when we started up that project. Here's Bill's works ( he is a really neat researcher): http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2002037745/

Shawnee Heritage book can be an secondary "alernate source",

Wow! I got a lot of links from your link for Elizabeth Alexander, Thomas King & Susan Ann Sharp! Thank you very much!

Hello Loretta

Congratulations and a warm welcome on joining the Titanic Project. We are delighted to have you as part of the team. Don’t forget to add Titanic to your tags.

Hi I would like to invite you again this year to join the 2018 Spring Clean-a-Thon and join the Team Tennessee Volunteers 2018 Spring Clean-a-Thon this year I am going to be the leader like I was for Team Tennessee 2017 Source-a-Thon. I will also be the leader of Team Tennessee Volunteers 2018 Source-a-Thon too this year. Notice the change in the name of the team. Here is our free space page:https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Team_Tennessee_Volunteers_-_2018_Spring_Clean-a-Thon. It is April 21 - 23. You need to register for this by April 19th that is the last day to register.

Star this is the link you need to go to and The registration deadline is April 19, 2018, at 12:01 am. Note: Please post as an answer not as a comment. Thanks! https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/586403/will-you-participate

Relationship Found

Loretta and Marsha are 9th cousins twice removed Loretta Black and Marsha (Cramer) Baker are both descendants of Elizabeth (Underwood) Butler.

1. Loretta is the daughter of [private mother] [unknown confidence] 2. [Private] is the daughter of Fred Brittain DNA confirmed 3. Fred is the son of Bertha Mae (Scott) Brittain [unknown confidence] 4. Bertha Mae is the daughter of Martha Bryant DNA confirmed 5. Jane is the daughter of Laban Bryant [unknown confidence] 6. Laban is the son of Randolph Bryant [unknown confidence] 7. Randolph is the son of Judith Elizabeth (Winfrey) Bryant [confident] 8. Judith is the daughter of John Winfrey [confident] 9. John is the son of Elizabeth (Slaughter) Winfrey [confident] 10. Elizabeth is the daughter of John Slaughter [unknown confidence] 11. John is the son of Francis Slaughter Jr. [unknown confidence] 12. Francis is the son of Elizabeth (Underwood) Butler [confident] This makes Elizabeth the tenth great grandmother of Loretta.

1. [Private] is the daughter of Edward Cramer [confident] 2. Edward is the son of Birdena Henrietta (Robinson) Cramer [confident] 3. Birdena is the daughter of Candice Margaret (Stephenson) Robinson [confident] 4. Candice is the daughter of Zadock Stephenson Jr [confident] 5. Zadock is the son of Alice (Thornton) Stephenson [confident] 6. Alice is the daughter of Charles Thornton [unknown confidence] 7. Charles is the son of Sarah (Taliaferro) Thornton [unknown confidence] 8. Sarah is the daughter of William Taliaferro [unknown confidence] 9. William is the son of Elizabeth (Catlett) Taliaferro [unknown confidence] 10. Elizabeth is the daughter of Elizabeth (Underwood) Butler [unknown confidence] This makes Elizabeth the eighth great grandmother of Marsha.

I see that you've marked a number of your ancestors' parental relationships 'confirmed with DNA'. There's one more step you need to do for each of those--put a statement on the profile of each of those people explaining how you used DNA to confirm those relationships. Here is a page that explains how to do that: http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/DNA_Confirmation

I can see that you've added some general statements to some of the profiles, but you haven't included the information about how the two test takers are related and how much DNA they share. That link shows you the expected format of your statements. Please let me know if I can help you with the wording of your statements. Thanks!