A Brief History of the Cumbo Family
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...
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...
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...
The earliest document I have acknowledging the existence of my great-great-great-great (4x great) grandfather Britton Cumbo Jr., comes from North Carolina cour...
Who was Bug Cumbo? He was my great-great-great grandfather. I never knew anything about him until I started tracing my Cumbo ancestry. My family’s knowle...
My great-great grandparents Edward Biggs and Florence Cumbo were both listed as Colored on their 1890 marriage license. So why am I classifying their union as a...
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...