http://spittoon.23andme.com/big-questions/our-hidden-african-ancestry/

Given the Mormon obsession with genealogy I wonder what happens if the "most valiant in the pre-existence" ever discover they had a mixed race or black ancestor...

I'm sure they know-doesn't TSCC run a DNA program?

I do have a great -great -great grandmother that the census listed as "black" one year and "Mulatto" (sp?) another year. A relative of mine told me that the older generations of our family were claiming that this woman must have been Native American because they just couldn't accept that she was black.
By the way, she and ggg grandfather lived in a polygamous relationship with his other wife, although he was never married to the African American lady. I am guessing that is because interracial marriage was illegal then. None the less, he lived as if he had two wives and they all raised their children together.

a lot of slave-owners quickly figured out that the easiest, cheapest way to have more slaves was through sexual intercourse. Children born of a master-slave union were legally considered to be children of slaves, and as such were slaves themselves (another aspect of the Patriarchal System of which polygamy is also a part).

"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs is a more accurate picture of slavery in North America than "Gone With the Wind."

have a biological parent that is not among the 2 listed on the charts.

NONE of us are who we think we are.

I still love genealogy, but it's harder to take it seriously.

It sound familiar. Even Jesus was illigit. If he actually did exist at all. The jews kept pretty good records of their heredity and they don't confirm his legit existence.