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STORYTELLER	LOCATION	HOW YOU HEARD	YEAR TOOK PLACE	TELLER'S PLACE OF ORIGIN	WHAT IT'S ABOUT
father	South Carolina and England/France	Chris Rock was on Oprah talking about my great great grandfather/my father	1944	Smoaks, South Carolina	My family name being on this show and inspiration
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Mother	Russia	Grandparents, Russian Germans	1930s	Alsace Lorraine, France	Slaves of the Siberian Work Camps
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Mother's cousin	New Orleans, Louisiana	oral history	1770s	New Orleans, Africa, France, Germany	Survival, overcoming adversity, Gaining freedom, Love for family
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My aunt Lily Geneva Whitely and then the true story from Toronto newspaper	Battle of Vimy Ridge in France	Relative narrations then research	1917	Pittsburgh Pennsylvania	African Americans that left America for Canada
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my dad,uncle auntes.	Barbados	yes.Iwas told that my grandfather was from barbados	1901	Iwas told france and maybe germany	I feel like a tree without any root.Ihave been trying to find my history
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My Mother's first cousin, another family historian.	New Orleans, Louisiana	oral history, proven by archival records	1770s	New Orleans, Louisiana, Marseille and Provence France; Mali, West Africa	self-purchase, love and affection, overcoming the odds
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