Well, my ADOS story is not typical I guess. My grandfather’s grandfather’s father fought in the Revolutionary War is a certified Son of the Revolution as I recently discovered finding the certificate. However, in 1778 in Louisiana, not part of America until 1803, he married a mulatto woman whose mother was a Senegalese slave. Her son, a quarter mulatto went on to marry a woman one quarter mulatto (called creole when the US took over and brought more restrictive slave laws about “negroes” and “mulattos”). He went on to become Governor in 1850. Though his wife died he had kids late life with, perhaps a female slave. But by 1915, after my grandfather got his law decree from Tulane, he called himself “Spanish-French” heritage, since the one-drop rule came into effect and he was a bout a quarter (Bantu, Xhosia, Aka and Senegalese). Hence he left rather than risk his life I believe, and brought his sister and mother to Newark, NJ. The laws got worse, not better. So he told everyone “aunt Carmelita” was French-Hispanic and married an Irish woman, as he had an Irish last name who would guess. The city was half Irish immigrants. My father died without telling me about this passing, I suppose out of shame, but I really don’t know.