Family Trailblazers
What fuels your interest in genealogy? What drives my passion is the excitement of discovering new ancestors and relatives and learning their life stories and h...
What fuels your interest in genealogy? What drives my passion is the excitement of discovering new ancestors and relatives and learning their life stories and h...
I am a Cumbo through my grandfather and a Hall through my grandmother. My Cumbo ancestors were free people of color who settled in Northampton County, North Ca...
We celebrated our 2016 Cumbo Family Reunion July 15-17 in Williamsburg, Virginia. The reunion reconnected Cumbo family branches literally separated by hundreds...
On July 15-17, over 200 Cumbo descendants gathered from across the nation and around the world in Williamsburg, VA for our 2016 Cumbo Family Reunion. Here are ...
Here is the family history I presented on July 16th at our 2016 Cumbo Family Reunion in Williamsburg, VA, where over 200 Cumbo descendants from across the natio...
I’m on my last day of vacation in Haiti. It’s been an amazing trip. My wife was born in Port Au Prince, Haiti. Her ancestors were from Les Cayes. O...
Britton Cumbo, my 4x Great grandfather and the root of the Cumbos of Northampton family from which I descend, was born a free person of color around 1825, orpha...
There were seven Cumbo Tribes of Northampton County, North Carolina. The biblical Abraham of our tribe was my great-great-great-great (4x) grandfather Britton C...
“My name is Kunta Kinte.” This week I have been watching the remake of Alex Haley’s Roots, airing on the History Channel. It’s brilliant. Watching this update...
The Science section of the New York Times published a wonderful article this weekend titled Tales of African-American History Found in DNA. The article details...