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Finding Charlotte is a work many years in the making which takes us on a remarkable journey through oral traditions, church records, legal documents and DNA verification. It accesses archives from the Bahamas, the United States and the United Kingdom to piece together and provide a comprehensive proof of Charlotte Cooper’s identity and the families descended from her. These pages bring new life to Charlotte and her descendants. Part I contains the proof argument identifying Charlotte Cooper and Part II is a narrative spanning six generations of her descendants in the Bahamas and the United States. This work is an example of the Genealogical Proof Standard at work with forewords from Dr. ...

This book is the long awaited follow up and revision of its predecessor, "The Descendants of Guinea Jim - Gibsons of Savannah Sound, Eleuthera, Bahamas." It became necessary to incorporate the many historical finds and correct some unintentional errors and omissions. The massive amounts of new information also made it necessary to break this work into volumes. This volume will chronical the first three generations and their children with future volumes focusing on descendants of the children and/or grandchildren. While Guinea Jim remains the earliest known ancestor of the Savannah Sound Gibson family, he is not a Gibson nor exclusive to the Gibson family. He is the father of nine and pa ...

The Legend of Guinea Jim will be another proud addition to all Gibson libraries. It is likely the first time a comprehensive study was done to positively identify the elusive Guinea Jim. Family traditions are analyzed and correlated with existing documentary sources to reveal the Gibson patriarch. The sources range from registers of birth to DNA and will shed light on questions like: • How are we related to Guinea Jim • Who is the Scotch Planter of Land of the Pink Pearl • What is our connection to Guinea, West Africa • Was there ever slavery in the Savannah Sound Gibson family