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Blackwell's Kinfolk Tree traces African American family's linage back to 1789

The Blackwell's Kinfolk Tree was created by Thelma Short Doswell, a genealogist who traced the Virginia family's lineage, which counts tennis great Arthur Ashe among its descendants all the way back to its first African ancestor in 1789.
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