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... hear present-day Galveston, Texas. He is the first known person of African ancestry to enter what is now the western United States. 1539-Esteban is ... border of Arizona and Mexico. 1541-Persons of African ancestry accompany the expedition of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado from ... blacks, and 2,439 mulattoes. Persons of African Ancestry are among the founders or early settlers of numerous towns in Texas ...

... a very good, and very extended, set of comments on the reporting of Michelle Obama's mixed-race ancestry. This is worth a look. Related articlesMichelle Obama's Ancestry: From Slavery to the Halls of the White House (abcnews.go.com)US researcher unearths Michelle Obama's slave ancestry (news.bbc.co.uk)Tracking Michelle Obama's slave roots (cnn.com)

Ancestry seems to have added more Australian electoral rolls onto ancestry.com.au without any great fanfare. At least, if there was one I missed it, and I didn’t get an update about it. They now ... and I started there. I selected New South Wales, then 1954, then MacQuarie (as spelled by Ancestry). I then selected Bathurst, and E for the initial of my ancestor. The page that came up was for ...

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Genealogy site Ancestry.com expects to raise $115 million as it plans to price 7.4 million shares for an IPO, the AP reported. ... over-allotments, which raise the total raised from the IPO to $115 million. This is the second time in two months that Ancestry.com went to the capital markets. The company, which filed for a $75 million IPO in August. Related Ancestry.com Files For ...