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STORYTELLER	LOCATION	HOW YOU HEARD	YEAR TOOK PLACE	TELLER'S PLACE OF ORIGIN	WHAT IT'S ABOUT
Census research- John Pyle	Kaufman Co, TX	Research - census, family research	1870s	South Carolina, then GA, MS and Texas	A white man caring for a half-brother born a slave.
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father	Whitehaven, MD	oral and public records	1850s	Whitehaven, MD	My great-father got his 40 acres and a mule
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I heard it from a distant, elderly cousin.	Georgia	I did an oral history interview with an elderly family member.	1850s	Georgia	It is about a relative who chose not to pass for white though he could have
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I heard the strory from my mother and her siblings.	He delivered goods baked by his mother-in-law to the White House.	Oral family history.	1890s	Caroline County, VA. Grandfather DOB 5/4/1881.	Maternal grandfather said he was Irish/Indian/African. (Irish Overseer).
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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 father told bits of the story after he inherited family land	Yazoo County, Mississippi	It is a story passed down through my fraternal relatives	1900s	Yazoo City, Mississippi	White immigrant great, great, great grand father in rural Holy Bluff, MS
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My Grandmother Mrs. Carrie Bass (Deceased/1995)	Simpson County Mississippi (1880 Census Report)	Found in 1880 Census Records for Simpson County Mississippi	1860s	Crystal Springs Mississippi	White GG Grandfather was married to my Black GG Grandmother in 1880 in MS
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my mother's father	Ridgley, Maryland	oral tradition	1850s	Caroline County of the Eastern Shore of Maryland	great-great grandfather linked to a white family
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