You know, one of the nicest things for me to realize, is that I don't have to 'cultivate' my moorish heritage, or seek it out.  I've already been living it my whole life.  The beauty is that I can just relax into 'being me.' The...

i've been writing so much about my mother and her family and very little about my father.  well, until recently, i thought i knew all there was to know about my father's family.  but now there's been yet another major familial wake-up call.  my father's family were 'danish jews.' ...

These are excerpts from "Transgressions in Race and Place" by Darlene Wilson and Patricia D. Beaver, from a Women's Studies collection of essays entitled Neither Separate Nor Equal : "A word portrait of the Melungeon or mountain 'native granny' may be gleaned from legends and document...

Does anyone out there remember the book 'In Wilderness Is The Preservation Of The World' ?  Since exploring my ancestry I've joined a number of Native American online groups and have discovered that we do indeed all share a great love of nature, just as it is, with minimal amendments.  I'm...

I loved this leather lampshade when I was a little girl.  At that time, it sat atop a rounded orange glass base and had a plain little ball on top rather than this finial.  If my theory is correct, and my great-grandmother was one of the 'Delaware Moors' then perhaps this shade was made in...