Walter Francis White - Connections Need Fixing

Started by Debbie Gambrell on Friday, April 23, 2021
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I believe there is an error in the connections for this line on Geni. Walter Francis White is well-known for his work and that his ancestry is mixed. Yet Geni has him descended from Pres. William Henry Harrison and his white wife rather than his slave mistress. The correct info is in this Walter Francis White's 'About ' section where it states:

"Of mixed race with African and European ancestry, White's appearance showed his high proportion of European ancestry. He emphasized in his autobiography, A Man Called White (p. 3): "I am a Negro. My skin is white, my eyes are blue, my hair is blond. The traits of my race are nowhere visible upon me." Five of his great-great-great-grandparents were black and the other 27 were white. All of his family were light-skinned, and his mother Madeline was also blue-eyed and blonde. Her maternal grandparents were Dilsia, a slave, and Dilsia's master William Henry Harrison, who much later became president of the United States. Madeline's mother Marie Harrison was one of Dilsia's mixed-race daughters by Harrison, and her father Augustus Ware was a white man."

But Dilsia has been left out of his Geni connections other than to show her as: Dilsia is Walter Francis White's great grandfather's partner instead of his direct ancestor.

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