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toubab1020
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 Posted - 17 Jun 2011 : 11:10:23
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Next Alex,why not spend a little (  ? ) time trawling through this topic there MAY be something of interest to you here :
http://www.gambia.dk/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3673 |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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NextAlexHaley
USA
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Posted - 29 Jun 2011 : 17:31:27
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Hello everyone!
Thanks for your comments!! This has been an interesting journey and a great history lesson.
I have read all your comments and they have been extremely helpful. I have done some name searches online (that’s how I discovered this website) and the tribes you have been matching with names is what I have discovered as well. Also it matches the historical record. The tribes John Holman and other salve traders were working within the Rio Pongo area were the Baga tribe. They were in wars during the mid to late 1700’s with the Fulani. Also they were bringing enslaved Africans from the interior (hinterland) from the area of present-day Mali. So discovering that the names of enslaved Africans in Holman’s estate inventory are Fulani and Mandinke is not surprising.
To make this research more interesting, I have also done Y-DNA testing for my paternal line. According to the results, my Y-DNA haplogroup is R1b1b2. It’s European. Y chromosome is passed down from father to son unchanged (except for slight mutations occurring in approximately 500 years intervals) regardless of the ‘race’ of the mother. The paper trail is taking me back to Meredith, Ginney, Numah, Mahmah Toay, etc. I haven’t matched any European families closely. The families my Y-DNA is similar to are generally families that have legends of admixture from Roman soldiers in ancient Britain. I’m mentioning this because the Toure clan (according to Ibn Battuta) as well as some other African clans had admixture from the Romans. The Romans were in North Africa. When the Arabs conquered North Africa they intermixed with the people who were already mixed with Roman stock. It was those North Africans who through invitation, invasion, trade or travel came to the empires in West Africa.
I also noticed in the Holman’s inventory some of the names sound Jewish. Names like Moriah and Yah Morah. Doing further research, Jews who escaped or were displaced from Israel after 70 AD traveled from North Africa through trade, came to the interior of Africa as well.
Are there any recommended books on the histories of the West African kingdoms and the various clans I should read?
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NextAlexHaley
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Posted - 29 Jun 2011 : 17:34:12
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Toubab,
Thanks for the link. This was the link I discovered in researching African names that brought me to this website.
NextAlex
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Originally posted by toubab1020
Next Alex,why not spend a little ( ? ) time trawling through this topic there MAY be something of interest to you here :
http://www.gambia.dk/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3673
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toubab1020
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Posted - 29 Jun 2011 : 17:37:46
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| Next Alex, you have been very busy and your research appears to show that you are a mixture of everybody if I read you right,fascinating, bet you are going to write a book ! please keep bantaba in cyberspace updated with your work most interesting,I told you that you would find much info here. |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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Sister Omega
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02 Jul 2011 : 11:32:08
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Hi NextAlexHaley,
I have often found in historical texts misspelling can be often be misleading and can send one off on a wild goose chase. However it does seem as if you are heading in the right direction. Yah which can also be pronounced as Jah is a Fula surname and your right they did migrate from the North east Africa to West Africa.
Peace
Sister Omega
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turk
USA
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Posted - 06 Jul 2011 : 23:16:40
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| Who knows maybe I am a relative of Sista... She does have some of my traits. Maybe it is due to our DNA. |
diaspora! Too many Chiefs and Very Few Indians.
Halifa Salah: PDOIS is however realistic. It is fully aware that the Gambian voters are yet to reach a level of political consciousness that they rely on to vote on the basis of Principles, policies and programmes and practices. |
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toubab1020
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Posted - 06 Jul 2011 : 23:43:06
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Turk,
"Maybe it is due to our DNA." more likely to be through your faith in ORAL HISTORY ,nothing at all to do with your "traits"  |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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turk
USA
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Posted - 07 Jul 2011 : 05:36:41
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Toubab
My faith in Oral History? Let me ask you again. To find out what your grand father name is, did you go to registration office? Or did you have to do DNA? |
diaspora! Too many Chiefs and Very Few Indians.
Halifa Salah: PDOIS is however realistic. It is fully aware that the Gambian voters are yet to reach a level of political consciousness that they rely on to vote on the basis of Principles, policies and programmes and practices. |
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toubab1020
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Posted - 07 Jul 2011 : 14:13:27
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| No problem there at all I knew and spoke to him before he died at that time I didn't have any interest at all in learning about my roots,so his oral history I do not know.However without any difficulty at all I can retrieve any information from STORED records,which are available on the internet for FREE or a SMALL fee.Other more specialised records are available from libraries and organisations upon application,Manorial rolls of estates in times hundreds of years ago,many many places and names are interconnected,so turk I fear that your side of the discussion cannot be sustained,that's a fact.I am not saying that oral history is unimportant it is, it is VITAL if you have NO STORED WRITTEN INFORMATION within your culture. |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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turk
USA
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Posted - 07 Jul 2011 : 16:02:00
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| Did I ever say if oral history is only information you can use? No. Did I ever say written record is unimportant? No. What is happening here, you come up saying that recorded history is more accurate and useful than oral history which I have never denied. And you are in some hallucination that I was opposing the importance or accuracy of recorded history over oral history. Everyone on the planet knows that recorded history is more accurate and practical than oral history. So I don't know whom you are arguing about it. Recorded history is more accurate, practical and permanent than oral history. That is a fact. No one disputes that other than your imaginary friend. |
diaspora! Too many Chiefs and Very Few Indians.
Halifa Salah: PDOIS is however realistic. It is fully aware that the Gambian voters are yet to reach a level of political consciousness that they rely on to vote on the basis of Principles, policies and programmes and practices. |
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toubab1020
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Posted - 07 Jul 2011 : 19:03:50
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"Recorded history is more accurate, practical and permanent than oral history. That is a fact."
Job done then Turk, by the way "No one disputes that other than your imaginary friend" that's not you then ? |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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turk
USA
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Posted - 07 Jul 2011 : 19:46:52
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| Not me. I never disputed about recorded history. But I do not need to look at the registry if I know who is my great great grand mother is. I trust my parents for this. |
diaspora! Too many Chiefs and Very Few Indians.
Halifa Salah: PDOIS is however realistic. It is fully aware that the Gambian voters are yet to reach a level of political consciousness that they rely on to vote on the basis of Principles, policies and programmes and practices. |
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toubab1020
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Posted - 08 Jul 2011 : 00:03:47
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| OK. |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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njucks
Gambia
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Posted - 10 Jul 2011 : 11:45:57
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Originally posted by turk
Not me. I never disputed about recorded history. But I do not need to look at the registry if I know who is my great great grand mother is. I trust my parents for this.
Turk u can be funny sometimes |
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turk
USA
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Posted - 10 Jul 2011 : 15:50:47
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Hey
You have not been posting here for a long time. Wha da gwan? |
diaspora! Too many Chiefs and Very Few Indians.
Halifa Salah: PDOIS is however realistic. It is fully aware that the Gambian voters are yet to reach a level of political consciousness that they rely on to vote on the basis of Principles, policies and programmes and practices. |
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