[Charlene66]

I see it’s been a while since this was posted.Do you have any more information?I have a Whitehead/Whited from SC marrying / having a child with Turner in Tennessee

[MarcSnelling]

Record72;31670 wrote: Thanks all, I don’t know why I have’t found this site before. I am semi-new to this. I started working on family history about 8 years ago, and with work, bad relationships and keeping up with my house just got away from it. I have more patience now to work on it. You know what kills me is I can onily find relatives listed as white all the way back to the late 1700’s. The Whitehead/Whitteds are just so uneasy about this subject and hold true to the English-Welch origins of the family. They were Quakers at one point but were kicked out of the church because of to “many outside marriages”. I am fine with them being English, but the fact is the intermarried with various tribes from day one of being in this country. Our government just stinks for what it has done to our people, and blacks alike. I guess I will just have to suck it up and deal with the fact that these people were just scared for ther lives and couldn’t admit to the truth. Not getting off the subject the Whiteheads are another chapter of the family delimas. I searched for alot of surnames and found a great deal of the surnames just not the ones I am looking for. I will do some more searching until I find something. This site is just to awsome!! Bless All Bobby

This is very similar to my family. The part about once being Quakers but being kicked out for ‘marrying out of unity’ (MOU). There is similar unease & denial among present day ancestors about origins. The Whiteheads of early 1700s NC are part of a small group I’ve identified through matching my family, DNA cousins and Clovis Anzick sample on GedMatch.

I think the unease present day comes from the fact that many of these lines had to move, change names and do whatever it took during the removal period to hold on to land.

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