Barry, it is good to see you posting. Thanks for the links. Those are both very evocative and beautiful. I still can get lost for hours in your site...the tunes and your arrangements, etc. are so incredible and extensive.

My mom's brother did a lot of genealogy research pre-internet; he travelled to a lot of places, finding graves, etc. He traced us back to a Sir John Yeamans of Barbados, I suppose the most famous/infamous of our ancestors as he had a large plantation but coveted a neighbour's wife. He wound up killing the neighbour in a duel. There's a picture of the house and the story HERE. I've seen other records which report he brought 3-400 slaves with him from Barbados. Not something to be particularly proud of. Interestingly enough, my daughter's boyfriend is from North Carolina and is an American of African descent. In all of their research they have never found any ancestor who is listed as a slave.