Paula Deen shocked to learn her family owned slaves, Y'all"

**fattymatty** · May 23rd, 2012, 02:34 AM

I just had to add that several times tonight, I've looked at the title of this thread and giggled.

**BITTER** · May 23rd, 2012, 08:10 AM

Originally Posted by sluce

I really like this show and, for the most part, like Paual. However, she came across as fake in her dramatic response to this news.

I am appalled at how phony she and her sons have come across.

**SHELLEE** · May 23rd, 2012, 09:04 AM

Originally Posted by witchcurlgirl

I always laugh at the scene in My Cousin Vinny when they arrive in that little town and Marisa Tomei says "I bet the chinese food here is terrible "

Omg, the chinese down here sucks big time. Whenever I go visit my inlaws in Long Beach the first thing I eat is chinese, followed by pizza, and a buttered roll. I love ny food.

**greysfang** · May 23rd, 2012, 09:51 AM

I'm not a fan of Carolina barbecue either. Gimme some good ol' KC bbq.

**Mel1973** · May 23rd, 2012, 11:26 AM

Ok, I blame y'all and Paula Deen for the time I pissed away on ancestry dot com... And YES, I traced a line of my family back to 1540 (my daddy's daddy's line) and back in 1540, they were in Enland (waves at Novice - girl, we KIN) and then they immigrated and kicked some Native Americans off the land (or won it in the "lottery" from land that had been stolen from the Natives) and eventually, had 44 slaves there too. It's still a plantation (hunting lodge dealie) in Georgia... It is now the Buckeye Plantation. So, there! I'm not going to get all up in arms about and fake some vapors. Slavery is a shitty, dark and shameful chapter in the history and it looks like my ancestors dabbled in that shit too.

Lawd, chasing down them Louisiana fuckers is too hard... bastards always changing their damn last names... what the hell is that about? Illiteracy is what I think it is - either on the part of the families or on the part of the census-takers.

**greysfang** · May 23rd, 2012, 11:47 AM

Originally Posted by Mel1973

Ok, I blame y'all and Paula Deen for the time I pissed away on ancestry dot com... And YES, I traced a line of my family back to 1540 (my daddy's daddy's line) and back in 1540, they were in Enland (waves at Novice - girl, we KIN) and then they immigrated and kicked some Native Americans off the land (or won it in the "lottery" from land that had been stolen from the Natives) and eventually, had 44 slaves there too. It's still a plantation (hunting lodge dealie) in Georgia... It is now the Buckeye Plantation. So, there! I'm not going to get all up in arms about and fake some vapors. Slavery is a shitty, dark and shameful chapter in the history and it looks like my ancestors dabbled in that shit too.

Lawd, chasing down them Louisiana fuckers is too hard... bastards always changing their damn last names... what the hell is that about? Illiteracy is what I think it is - either on the part of the families or on the part of the census-takers.

Oh, so you're the one responsible for my however many greats-grandmother being on the Trail of Tears. No one seems to know that the Creeks were moved out with the Cherokee. C'mon let's fight.

**Mel1973** · May 23rd, 2012, 11:50 AM

Originally Posted by greysfang

Oh, so you're the one responsible for my however many greats-grandmother being on the Trail of Tears. No one seems to know that the Creeks were moved out with the Cherokee. C'mon let's fight.

HEY! we later made up for it by marrying into the Natives! so plbbfft!

**MrsDark** · May 23rd, 2012, 12:16 PM

So did you do the free trial thingy on ancestry.com?

**Mel1973** · May 23rd, 2012, 12:27 PM

Yes. I have 2 weeks to dick around in it.. and have traced back to my Great x 12 Grandpa on my dad's side.

**MrsDark** · May 23rd, 2012, 12:33 PM

I am sooo tempted to do this.

**Mel1973** · May 23rd, 2012, 12:56 PM

Well, it's definitely a time killer. I started yesterday and I think I've tracked down like 500 relatives. It's interesting in that I see where my ancestors came from England and wound up in Georgia and North Carolina and eventually married up with some Native Americans and then had slaves and finally freed them. Its interesting, for sure. And it really does not charge you anything to start. I gave my credit card number and they billed $1.00 and then credited me the $1.00 back.

**sluce** · May 23rd, 2012, 01:16 PM

I love ancestry.com. It's so easy to find your family because others have already done the work for you!

**witchcurlgirl** · May 23rd, 2012, 01:20 PM

Go Mormons!

**sluce** · May 23rd, 2012, 01:23 PM

I have helped a lot of adoptees find their birthparents, pre ancestry.com. We have a Mormon center in Broomall that has the most amazing genealogical library. We found so many people thanks to the records they keep.