I’m a Frigging Multitude

I got my DNA back y’all, and I’m a friggin’ multitude — for realz!

This ancestry shit been fucking with me serious. Folks leaving they “slaves” to they kids. Family members fought for the Confederacy. Been tripping I’m related to Shakespeare (confirmed) and Irish kings (confirmation pending). Been trying to keep my cool, but your whole life knowing jack shit about where you come from; hoping to get answers before the people got ‘em all die off, it’s a fucking miracle suddenly have centuries your mah fugging history spread out like a king’s mah fugging feast.

On a humble, y’all, I got relatives all over the mah fugging place and I don’t even know where to start. Funny AF most of them link to a woman ain’t nobody in my family know nothing about. My great grandmother Sally Mary Johnson was stolen from her family at age 13 (or so the story goes) and married my great grandfather. I pieced together a lot on great granddaddy ‘cause there was a bunch of information on his side. I ain’t had zip on great grandma.

One day looking over the tree—a lot of personal genealogy is looking at your tree and hoping to find something you missed—I saw a hint had popped up. Some stranger somewhere had made a connection on they public tree and that had showed up on my tree as a possibility. I was all o’ sudden able to trace my great grandmother’s people back to emancipation and before. That is hard as hell with family who were treated as property.

The bigger surprise was they had changed their names and I was able to find the name given to them by the hostage-takers/“owners” and the name they had selected for themselves after liberation. I have a ton of matches to confirm them too. So, a whole new branch of ancestors to follow and all they descendants to reach out and say hello. People who was never meant to survive none of this shit. Black Lives Miracles.

I got a message from Avis Smith. Avis was a boxer, who had fights held at Madison Square Garden. He told me about a cousin who was secretary to Coretta Scott King. It looks like I’m not the only fighter my family produced. I certainly know who to call when I want to work on my left hook. I’m gonna reach back to Avis and check out his family tree and share with him what I got in mine that he may not o’ known before.

Anyway, I thought y’all’d appreciate another ancestor update, since they the one’s making all this magic possible. Hit me up, you got questions.