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All his life, people had asked Joe Mozingo about his name. He began to look into it, and the more he learned, the more he realized a key part of his family's history had been buried. So he set out to learn the story, traveling from the tidelands of Virginia to the hollows of Kentucky and southeastern Indiana and beyond. At times, he struggled to absorb what he was finding. He learned that his early ancestry reflected not so much a quirk of American history as the messy start of it, seeding an internal conflict that continues today.
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Add / View comments | Discussion FAQFascinating story. To me this is what "Who do you think you are" should be about. Ordinary people, not celebrities with plenty of money being paid to have expensive trips around the world and genealogists doing all the work for them. In addition Race as an entity needs to be removed from the equation once and for all. We are not race based humans we are just humans all of us everywhere in this world and we're all joined together. There's a saying in Scotland "we're aw Jock Tamson's bairns", which means we are all the children of one man (& one woman). Never was a truer word spoken
