Secret Genealogy by Suellen Ocean

A how-to for tracing ancient Jewish ancestry.

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We have a period in history where European Colonists along the Atlantic coast, on occasion, lived peacefully with their Native American neighbors. The European men (especially Trappers) sometimes took Native American women for their wives. A Native American woman, who spoke in her native tongue and had the knowledge of hunting and terrain, was an asset to a Frontiersman, especially if she kept her connections with tribal members. As the years progressed, the Native Americans inter-married with Africans because they often found themselves living on the same plantation as slaves. And on occasion, the Jewish, Dutch, English, French and Spanish landowners took slave women as their wives or concubines. These slave owners were able to give their mulatto children a good education and a higher standard of living (though due to the hard working slaves). Many of them went on to marry white people or other light-colored mulattos, eventually the dark pigmentation disappearing leaving later generations to not know they had an African-American 11th great-grandmother.

Suellen Ocean is the author of Secret Genealogy a how-to for tracing ancient Jewish ancestry and Secret Genealogy II, Uncovering the Jewish Roots of Our Christian Ancestors, both available at Amazon, B&N and Ocean-Hose.

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