Interesting observation about African-Americans. Us white folks tend to forget that African-Americans rarely can trace their ancestry back more than a couple of generations. Once they get back to slavery (which for older black Americans is just a couple of generations) they can't go back any further unless they can find old records that show where their grandparents or great grandparents were "harvested." My wife can only trace her family back two generations and has no idea what part of Africa her family originally came from.

Jerry