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From what you are saying your forefathers came from around the same regon as mine. There was alot of people from other countries joined the Vikings after an attacked. a village and showed them how to protect themselves and as the vikings their new friends were leavinng some of the men joined the Vikings. So by the 900 when the Vikings stopped there were many colors. I remember my white Norwegion Grandma saying when I asked how come there is differedt colors skins and she replied the east way to explain it is the white skin the lord took them out of the oven to soonand the dough wasn't baked. The red skin was more what what he was after and as the Brown skin paople they baked to long and was burnt. It has been a source of amusement for me for many years. because she apparently ddn' know either.

SSgt Robert Simonds yes, my son's father's DNA profile, for his paternal side. And yes, different people transplanting into the culture became families.

Do you know when this first started? The black slaves out of Africa that first came to America. They all went to the confederate states Democrat states at the time. Then remember the ole river boat the paddle wheelers that crused the missippi? From what I hear Big ones with 200 to 300 state rooms and five an six stories.the still coome up on the Fourth of July every year. Until 2006 I I used to go down ole mississippi river about 10 miles below St Paaul sit on the bank with my fish pole and lunch and wait their arrivel in St Paul Minn. years ago they had Darkies that sang to the passengers from the top deck. They were all suposed to be white men with charco painted on their face as black folk wern't allowed on Boats. Why di they paint them self to look like black men? could it be they wen't all white and some black were painted black men because they had a great voice. A lot of instresting questions back in those years and today . Though one of my Grest Grandfathers and their families owned some of those river boats. Like the Cns John Simonds that I have a photo of and was used duriing the civil war.

SSgt Robert Simonds I do remember a big bruhaha back in the 1980s when some history surfaced about "blackface" and actual blacks were singing. They had layers of blackface also, to ensure if so done wiped y them, they would get black makeup on their clothes to show they were not black. I have not heard the term Darkie in a month of Sundays spanning 5 decades. So in your area of the country do they still use the term Darkies?