The Cumbo Family: Tracing one of the First African descended families in America
This is an ancestral story of an African man and woman's resilience and agency over bondage to build a free life for their son and future generations.
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The Life and Times of a Northampton County Cotton Farmer
Here’s what I have been able to uncover about the life of my 5th great grandfather Britton Cumbo Sr., a free man of color born 1776-1794 of Northampton County, ...
Using Social Media, AncestryDNA & Gedmatch to advance family research
Author’s Notes: All All living males born with the last name Cumbo (or its derivatives) who have Y-DNA tested are invited to join our Cumbo US South Y-DN...
Meeting the Queen
The New Museum This past weekend the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture opened its doors to the public. It was a herculean eff...
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...
Cumbo Family Reunion Group Photos
We celebrated our 2016 Cumbo Family Reunion July 15-17 in Williamsburg, Virginia. The reunion reconnected Cumbo family branches literally separated by hundreds...
Meet Edith Cumbo, Nation Builder
We celebrated our 2016 Cumbo Family Reunion last weekend July 15-17 in Williamsburg, Virginia. One of the reasons we chose Williamsburg was because Colonial Wi...
Photo Blog: Cumbo Reunion July 15, 2016
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 ...
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...
The 7 Cumbo Tribes of Northampton, North Carolina
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...