tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575591869878254101.comments2019-01-27T16:55:46.760-08:00 Going Down Home Deborah Frieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15004617006967470368noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575591869878254101.post-58374964423685178652017-02-21T08:37:16.400-08:002017-02-21T08:37:16.400-08:00Deborah, I lean toward the thinking (like you) tha...Deborah, I lean toward the thinking (like you) that Mary Ann is the source of both the Native and the African Ancestry. But, what I don't know if you realize is how many people of African descent have that family story about a Native American ancestor, which turns out not to be true once their DNA is done. Since yours does show a trace, perhaps it is there someplace, but my guess is that it wasn't one of Mary Ann's parents. I think you have a better chance that you are giving yourself credit for. Stay tuned to your autosomal matches. Perhaps, one day, someone from the "right" family will come along to help push a puzzle piece into place. :)<br /><br />RenateRenate Yarborough Sandershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05289031155721526652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575591869878254101.post-13891090340450431512015-07-31T16:19:21.482-07:002015-07-31T16:19:21.482-07:00You are a beautiful writer! So arresting! So all...You are a beautiful writer! So arresting! So alluring and lyrical with your diction !!! I know you have a Great Novel in you - YOU JUST HAVE TO LET FLY AND GO FOR IT! <br />P.S. My only advice is to include at minimum one dog character of interest (if not two or three) AND to not be afraid to KILL OFF or HARM your characters (remember They Are Fictional after all). NOW DO IT! JSJohn Steigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10038697365721558826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575591869878254101.post-7261224872135447432015-07-16T10:16:41.573-07:002015-07-16T10:16:41.573-07:00Lovely! I hope to make it out there one day myself...Lovely! I hope to make it out there one day myself.Emily @ The Southern Belle Blogshttp://www.thesouthernbelleblogs.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575591869878254101.post-29697873503174154582015-07-16T09:05:28.018-07:002015-07-16T09:05:28.018-07:00I would love to see their vision come to fruition!...I would love to see their vision come to fruition! Lovey article, beautiful photos!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08906188603211965525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575591869878254101.post-56166048060673011532015-04-15T16:15:49.383-07:002015-04-15T16:15:49.383-07:00Hi, Denese. Thanks for commenting. No Hinsons or...Hi, Denese. Thanks for commenting. No Hinsons or Mozingoes that I know of, but I'll watch to see if those names turn up. My 2% likely came from my Armstrong line, or possibly through a Jarvis, Hill or Bryant. These lines are rooted in Tyrrell and Washington counties, although the Armstrongs made their way to Tyrrell County after spending 2 generations in Talbot Coutny, MD (Eastern Shore) after arriving from Ireland in the early 1700s. <br /><br />Thank you for wishing me luck, and the same to you!Deborah Frieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15004617006967470368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575591869878254101.post-64649272680644178912015-04-15T16:01:01.888-07:002015-04-15T16:01:01.888-07:00Deborah, do you have any Hinsons or Mozingoes in y...Deborah, do you have any Hinsons or Mozingoes in your tree? I have a match who is 98% Euro and 2% SSA and that is our match along with many others. Our MRCA was Needham Hinson (Mozingo descendent) born abt 1785 in Wayne, North Carolina. Bonne chance with your search.Denesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16724557656399049287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575591869878254101.post-36285788911844959362014-12-30T07:35:48.630-08:002014-12-30T07:35:48.630-08:00Fabulous post, Deborah, and a fitting closure to t...Fabulous post, Deborah, and a fitting closure to this busy year of making new connections! I hope we all find some answers in 2015, but either way, I pray that we'll learn and grow as we all continue (together) on the journey!<br /><br />RenateRenate Yarborough Sandershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05289031155721526652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575591869878254101.post-88331405430847541452014-12-04T06:32:00.973-08:002014-12-04T06:32:00.973-08:00I agree with the Oyster stuffing I know my Dad use...I agree with the Oyster stuffing I know my Dad used to ask my Grandmother to make it but my Mom usually made the box instructions. I have since been introduced (by my Husband) to an actual stuffed Turkey. I might try the Oyster recipe later. Most of the things I'm told about or know about were also passed down and they just "knew" how to make them but that has begun to disappear due to processed foods. That's one thing I'd like to do when I go home for Christmas this year is go through Grandma's recipe box and see if I find anything.. I always make my Mom's mother's "Chocolate Delight" which came from a recipe in a Church Cookbook I believe but I've never seen anyone else make it. It's a layered creamcheese, pudding, crushed pecan crust, coolwhip type dessert she made it every year. Watergate salad was common also. She also made the best roast beef ever with potatoes, carrots, gravy just mouthwatering thinking about it. Chocolate Gravy on biscuits. Monkey bread. Patricia Stueverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12719336734378890288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575591869878254101.post-74906395442936333032014-12-04T06:21:42.270-08:002014-12-04T06:21:42.270-08:00I did a lot of research on Old Christmas because i...I did a lot of research on Old Christmas because it was something my Dad's family observed/still observes. I asked my Grandmother if it was on her side or my Grandfather's and she said it was both sides so it's hard to say if it was the same further back as they are 2nd cousin 1x removed) They always gave us bags of candy, apples, mints, hershey kisses, old style hard candy, reeses not always the same. I posted on a holiday blog I was part of a couple years ago (which expired) here it is on archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20121228231433/http://holidayshomemade.squarespace.com/blog So I decided to continue the tradition and my kids get candy and perhaps a trinket toy in their shoes (easy to find after Christmas sale bargains) we sometimes throw out oats to the Camels. ;) <br />Patricia Stueverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12719336734378890288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575591869878254101.post-53724236584961134742014-12-04T05:27:49.104-08:002014-12-04T05:27:49.104-08:00Yes, Cathy! I had forgotten about "Old Chris...Yes, Cathy! I had forgotten about "Old Christmas" -- something my mother also referred to as having been observed in her family in the past. I assumed Old Christmas, which falls around Epiphany, was meant to coincide with the events that followed the birth of Christ (arrival of the Magi) but it seems to have been a Protestant English calendar politics thing -- http://www.thehistoryofchristmas.com/ch/old_christmas_day.htmDeborah Friesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575591869878254101.post-32102368048804583222014-12-03T19:30:47.075-08:002014-12-03T19:30:47.075-08:00Oyster stuffing for the turkey. There are printed...Oyster stuffing for the turkey. There are printed recipes out there for it, and they all pretty much mimic the one my mother taught me to make by watching her, and she learned at her mother's elbow, who learned from her mother. I have no idea if it's a Tyrrell County thing, or just our particular family (Grandma was born and mostly raised in Washington County, but her mother was from Tyrrell County). You use a pint of good quality oysters, toasted bread slices, a whole stalk of celery, a huge onion or two smaller ones, and a stick of butter, and then your herbs - Mom always used McCormick's Poultry Seasoning. You rinse the oysters carefully, but reserve their liquid, and put them and the liquid in a pot and bring it to a boil, removing them from the heat when the edges of the oysters start to curl. Meanwhile, you cut up the celery and onions, dicing them, and sauteing them in the butter. Take a loaf of bread and toast each slice, then rip the slices to pieces, then add the sauteed veggies to the bread, then the oysters (including the liquid), add enough of the seasoning, a little salt and pepper and then add turkey stock (from where you'd cooked the giblets and neck and other organs) to moisten it all, mix thoroughly, but carefully, so you don't smash the oysters. Then keep in the fridge until you're ready to stuff the bird. As far as food is concerned, nothing says Christmas to me more than the taste of oyster stuffing and salty, Smithfield ham. Most of Mom's memories about Christmas were centered on what they did to decorate, and not so much the food. She did mention that during the winter, her mother would start a pot of soup and keep it on a back burner for the entire season, slowly adding new ingredients to it as the season progressed. Nothing went to waste. I also remember her talking about "Old" Christmas, where they'd actually get their presents in January, and not on Christmas Day, but the family stopped keeping Old Christmas at some point during her childhood, maybe the early 40s?<br /><br />I also remember Mom making collards with dumplings, but I don't remember now if she made corn dumplings, or just used regular flour. She had to learn to make pastry, because my Dad grew up eating chicken and pastry, and not chicken and dumplings, although his mother called the pastry strips she used dumplings - her family was from Gates County, NC, another northeastern NC county, but one where the accents and food ways might as well be hundreds and hundreds of miles away.<br /><br />I remember Grandma making yellow or white layer cakes, and covering them with a fudgy frosting, and when you cut into the cake, there would be funnels of chocolate running down through the cake. Before frosting it, she'd poke holes all over the cake and pour a chocolate sauce over it, so the chocolate would run into the cake. She would also make a hard candy cake, where she'd add hard candies to the batter before baking the cake, and the candies, usually those hard red and white mints, would melt and then harden again as the cake cooled. I didn't like that one as much as I liked the chocolate one (grin)!<br />Cathy Robertsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575591869878254101.post-4888775546393076122014-12-03T06:46:00.973-08:002014-12-03T06:46:00.973-08:00The Scuppernong River Festival put together a cook...The Scuppernong River Festival put together a cookbook several years ago. The Town Hall had a few copies when I stopped in last time I was there. I have a copy of the 2nd one they made (no idea if the first is different or just a 2nd printing) but there are lots of passed down recipes within. One I don't necessarily see in the book is Collards with Corn dumplings a Native American/English mix. I used this recipe for Thanksgiving although the dumplings could have used a bit longer to cook(I think I shorted the time) it was pretty close to what I remember Grandma making. http://grist.org/article/getting-back-to-our-green-roots-with-potlikker-soup/Patricia Stueverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12719336734378890288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575591869878254101.post-21186017349577298342014-11-30T15:04:52.262-08:002014-11-30T15:04:52.262-08:00Moderated comments are now available on this blog,...Moderated comments are now available on this blog, thanks to Renate and Jack!Deborah Frieshttp://www.deborahfries.netnoreply@blogger.com