Ancestry/Genealogy

I have relatively fair skin and hazel-green eyes, but my skin tans easily, hardly ever burns. And my hair... In high school they used to say I looked one of my parents was black. It's super curly, super thick, super coarse and super dry. The products they have for African American hair work wonderfully on mine (if I ever wash my hair and don't beat it into submission, then it looks like Diana Ross's hair when it was long and puffy).

In all my research, I've never found anyone that was stated to be African, black or even mulatto. But I DO know that, up until 1840's, my father's lines was definitely slave-owners (and all the the pictures I've ever seen of them, they have coal black hair and brown eyes. They are all listed in draft cards etc as having "med" or "olive" skin tone).

I don't know why anyone would want to deny part of their heritage now. I know why people used to do it, but now I wish there was more incentive to have people talk about race and how mingled everyone actually is.