Explore Sussex County genealogy through Thompsonville's Thompson clan: free people of color navigating land, racial classification, and oral traditions in Delaware. Archival records, oral history, and genetic evidence tracing the matriarchal legacy and descendants of Phoebe Thompson Davis in Sussex County. A historical biography of Hester Ann Morris, examining matrilineal kinship, labor, and community resilience among Delaware's mixed-ancestry families. An examination of Tidewater Creole communities and free people of color in colonial Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware prior to 19th-century racial codes. Read the story behind Genotype Scout: a free, privacy-first in-browser raw DNA analysis app built to explore deep ancestry and haplogroups. Tracing Comfort Harmon, matriarch of Delaware's free people of color, through colonial land records, tax rolls, and descendant lineages. A breakdown of 21 AncestryDNA biogeographical regions, tracing African and European ancestral roots with archival corroboration. An archival and anthropological synthesis examining tribal identity, oral tradition, and colonial records of Delaware's Nanticoke community. Trace Amindab's 14-generation legacy from 18th-century Delmarva servitude to the 21st century through court records, deeds, and genetic genealogy. A side-by-side genomic comparison of father-daughter raw DNA data, exploring autosomal recombination, inheritance patterns, and shared SNPs. Examining the oral history of Indigenous heritage in African American genealogy using archival documents, census records, and genetic evidence. An in-depth exploration of African paternal haplogroup B (Y-DNA), its ancient origins, migration pathways, and Delmarva genealogical connections.
The Thompson Clan: A Tribe of Our Own
Phoebe (Thompson) Davis (1920–1981)
Hester Ann Morris (1877–1944): A Life Defined by Kinship and Resilience
Before They Were “Black”: The Tidewater Creole People and the Oldest Free Families in America
I Built a DNA App Because Nobody Was Building One for Us
Comfort Harmon: A Matriarch of Delaware’s Free People of Color
What the Numbers Finally Said: Breaking Down My AncestryDNA Results
The “Last” Nanticoke of Delaware
The Life of Amindab: Tracing Enslaved Ancestry in Delmarva
Father VS Daughter DNA
“My Grandma Was an Indian” (And She Might Have Been Right) Maybe…
African Paternal Haplogroup B Explained: What Your Y-DNA Means
