One of the Key gateways of returning to your African roots 

Please contact one of our Online Heritage Research Advisors 

 

Mr. Jerry Ward 

House Chairman  & Senior Historian/Researcher on  Indo African & Negro Genealogical  History in North Carolina

Jerryward@houseofancestry.org

 

 

Michelle Centers 

Senior field Research Advisor  European, African and Native American Genealogy 

Michelle.C@houseofancestry.com

888-693-8314  Ex 702    

 

The House of Ancestry

Adjunct Professors,

Presenters, Scholars, and Lecturers

 

Educational Advisors 

HRM Lonzado Langley -National Spokesman , Professional Forensic Genealogist/Colonial Historian on Indian Slavery and Colonial Slave Trade - Senior Researcher/Advisor on colonial racial laws. Census resporting and the history of Savannah River Uchee and Apalache people South Carolina and Georgia. 

 

Irma Suggs  Researcher and Family Historian on Early Virginia Colonial Laws. Maryland, DC, VA

 

 

Honorary Member 

Honorable - Beverly A. Harper 

FamilyHistorian/Genealogist 

Beverly.A.Harper@houseofancestry.org

 

Elearning@houseofancestry.com

 

Speakers@houseofancestry.com

Public Speakers 

Lonzado Langley  Forensic Genealogist and  Colonial Investigative Historian  

Jerry Ward - Sr  Family Historian  

Irma Suggs - Sr Family Historian

 

 

News

THE ONE DROP BLOOD RULE

The original inhabitants of Virginia looked very different from the European immigrants who started arriving after Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492. The Africans brought to Virginia in colonial times were easily distinguished from both Europeans and Native Americans - initially. However, once people of different races produced mixed offspring with a range of skin colors and facial features, the ability to distinguish someone's "race" just from appearance became more challenging. Offspring of whites and blacks ended up being categorized based on the status of the mother. All children of female slaves inherited the status of slavery, no matter what the status of the father. Children of a free black mother gained status as a free person of color. Mixed-race children with a white mother faced discrimination, but were not consigned to slavery. Native Americans used different criteria, and considered a child of a Native American father or mother to be "Indian."

Colonial Virgina creating social contructs

Louisiana one drop court case

 

 

 

Arkansas Act 320 of 1911

 

 

 

Colorline Upper and Lower Southeast

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