This was a writeup on April Fool's Day 2024 , originally put on the frontispiece. Parts of it as of July 2024 are removed from there.

Latest finds in progress April 1, 2024

As April Fools' Day suggests, don't be a fool. The best thing to do is practice the true and best way of life. That I learned long ago, and recurringly comes back to me, and sometimes affirmed through factual proofs that that is wisest, regardless of when folks may seem to direct you in directions that take you off course.

Some aspects of the pedigree, not even going back more than about a half dozen generations have been discussed more than others.

Earlier this week, I have obtained a photo of 'what appears to be' my grandmother Marilyn's grandmother or aunt sitting amongst school mates. Marilyn told me that Fany used to babysit for her. Until the course of study/verification is complete, there is the story background that either my grandmother Marilyn as she told me, or her mom, in my great grandmother Vivian, were babysat by a woman they described to me as aunt or great aunt, named Fany/Fannie,  and/or middle name might be different, Fany/Fannie L's niece (??). Fannie or possible spelling variation Fany Johnson. There is both, her grandmother and aunt with the same name. In carefully reviewing the records, the grandmom born perhaps in the middle 1850s appears to have died a couple of years before Marilyn was born. So the aunt story lines up, as she was about 20 to 30 years old when Marilyn was a baby about 80 years later. Unfortunately, I cannot figure which one of the dozen or so girls in the referent photo she is. If it were the case that she was an exception due to some exclusions based  on some ground of some sort, even still, I cannot see the difference, at least not now. It might explain why grandma was hurt when excluded -by her own relatives?- from riding a school bus back in her late middle school years, c. 1945, Alabama/Mississippi Selma/Biloxi/Montgomery area. 

For now, please see a pedigree chart at Johnson - Johnston page. It may help clear up some questions if there any.

I remember in my childhood days (maybe it is daze) being somewhat shocked that that side of the family genealogy records were submitted to the 'Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture', NYPL. This especially after all the sacrificing the family did to remove the blemish of the use of color to denote humans. And that, that area of the human family was not really the predominant pedigree pool. Perhaps she knew something I was not told. Based on the picture though, if it were to be in the Schomburg, the fit might questioned by at least passerbys.

In case anything happens, such as I lose traction on the project, it appears that there is a breakthrough on an ancestor, not discussed as much. For protection of some of our readers, such as youth, the pick up the tail end and run with it possibilities, the entire name and other facts will not be mentioned here. For historians and senior family members, the omitted information is pretty obvious.

P Marks, 'died before 1872'. Well it appears it was long before then, .. Chatham, not the one built in 1856. Veteran?. There are several entries with same name. Died as prisoner? 

Mack Wells, his mom Lizzie says (per written records) it's Mackey in a few places, and I've seen that years ago in at least one other place, by the way appears to have married again. Nellie's mom is clearly written as Betsey (not Bestey, (it's a bit something so far off, and posted on numerous genealogy websites, even with computer transcription errors)). Nevertheless, thank yous go out to those that did that work and compiled the records. I studied the records, and might be able to give back soon.

Mack or Mackey had siblings. When I was a kid of about 12, I was told something something had to do with descendancy of Napoleon. I studied in intense detail what might be described as a zone of genealogy research, (attempting to confirm a nexus between him and us) about 2 decades later, and turned up with nothing. On to studying Napoleon the III, still nothing. But perhaps there is, something. DeLaplagne, spelling?, she shows up down in that region, which the amount 'have something to do with what is in the framework might be nearly nil, except for what graves down in the region look like.

Mr Stackhouse appeared to have married one of the females.

In certain eras, terms like colored, and black, could mean 'foreign', 'immigrant', or 'outsider', in other eras, anything not considered completely 'white'. During the years in US history for efforts of 'miscegenation', a denotation of a color could be because of who that person married not necessarily their pedigree.

Before hailing what appears to be another veteran in the War of 1812, resting a hat on German immigrants, 'complexion: black'/ 'am yellow', let's get the crystal clear facts in. Uncross as much up as doable, in the end, before you reach the end, regardless of what might comprise it, it's the guidance just to practice the right way of life.