The Cumbos as Lumbee Indian
Bloggers note: Lumbee is a modern day term. This blog is about Cumbo ancestors whose descendants currently make up the modern Lumbee tribe. Who are the Lumbee...
Tag: North Carolina
Cumbos as Free People of Color
If I were to ask you, “Who were free people of color in America?” how would you answer? If you were to survey say 100 Americans with a reasonable gr...
Charting Cumbo Migration Patterns
In a previous post I explored the origins of the name Cumbo and uncovered its beginnings in Africa and Italy. In this post I will explore Cumbo residence and m...
Were the Cumbos Melungeon?
The origins of the American Melungeon have always been considered mysterious. Melungeons are generally known as a group of families from relatively unknown but ...
My Cumbo Ancestry Video
About a year ago the Ancestry products team reached out to me and invited me to record a testimonial video for a chance to star in an Ancestry TV spot. I thoug...
Were the Cumbos Portuguese?
My Cumbo ancestors migrated to Northampton County NC at the turn of the 19th century likely from Virginia. Census records tracked them starting in 1820, as fre...
My Ancestral Pilgrimage to Northampton, NC
My Cumbo ancestors settled into Northampton County, North Carolina at the turn of the Nineteenth Century. Here is a travelogue of my trip to Northampton in Oct...