The Goings were Free Blacks who intermarried with whites. Y-DNA  tests of a
man from our family Goynes, Goings, Guynes has determined the African (not
Portuguese) roots of our family. We are descended from the Goings of
Virginia who migrated after the Revolutionary War to Georgia and then
Mississippi.  Some of the family later migrated to  Texas.

My working theory is that Michael Going the immigrant was from the
Portuguese possession of  Angola, Africa.

Some of the descendants get fanciful ideas relating to the Goings as French
or Portuguese or Indian. It could be that one of the men married a woman of
these descents. It is all in the DNA.

Tree Mother
Decendant of James Goings/Goyne,  Revolutionary War  soldier.



On Feb 9, 2008 3:43 PM, Shelley Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> Mixture" label.  Indians and half white half blacks were referred to as
> Mulatto and this is also a possibility.  Some excellent reading on other
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> Subject: [VA-ROOTS] Rent Rolls-Early VA
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> census records, I found this but not sure what it means, is this where
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> later census this person appears as White, but found a marriage
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> Henry Goings,the couple are called Free Mixtures.. Is there an assumption
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