Comments on: User Story: Genealogy in West Africa – the Birth of a Passion

By: Rougui

Rougui — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:10:38 +0000

This was amazing i was in tears, your english is excellent . I really want you to do farther research on your mothers side of the family. But it was detailled and well written.

By: Madina Touré

Madina Touré — Mon, 07 May 2012 10:22:37 +0000

Merci, mon cher oncle pour cette contribution. Je suis reellement touchée par l’interet que cet texte a suscité parmi la famille mais surtout pour les autres. Tu as raison de dire qu’il est important d’ecrire en anglais, malheureusement, mon niveau y est très faible. Cette version est une traduction de mon texte en français dans le blog myheritage.fr Tu pourras le consulter aussi si tu le désires, mais l’important c’est d’avoir lu et apprécié le texte. Merci et mon bonjour à ma tante Kadia et aux enfants. J’étais avec Mariam Sakho la semaine dernière à Kaédi. Bye

By: Ibrahima sakho

Ibrahima sakho — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:28:50 +0000

Dear Madina
My name is ibrahima cire sakho and I am based in Ottawa. I truly appreciated your article and I learned a lot on the close relationships between cerno bessomoro family and the TOure’s in one hand and with the Tall ’s family in the other hand. Writing articles on this interesting issue and sharing knowledge on these great people are the best way, I believe, to advocate for defending our legacy and history. Therefore, as member of these families I will be delight to learn more from those who tell stories and analyze the way that these families did contribute to this collective history. Even though you are more comfortable in French, writing in English is a window of opportunity to reach more people, and believe your English is great and more importantly it is very clear.
All the best
Ibrahima CIRE, lamine baba, RAcky Cerno

By: Madina Touré

Madina Touré — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:52:31 +0000

Thank you Michael Lois Byers for this comment. I’m very happy to discover your story and hope for you a lot of success in your future research. In fact, Historic research is very interested. My only problem is my weak level in English. I’m so sorry….

By: Lois Byers/Michael

Lois Byers/Michael — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:16:42 +0000

This was a wonderfully written story. My ancestors are from West Africa as well. They are according to my DNA test results are from the are of Mali, they were from the Songhai tribe. They did not all stay there, they moved all over, even going into some parts of South Africa and moving eastward as well. According to my DNA results done by Ethnoancestry, they also migrated into the Sahara to reach Morocco and into modern day Mozambique by the great Bantu expansions. About 500 years ago they were a part of the Atlantic Slave Trade. They were brought, I believe SC and from there moved to other parts of the South, ending up in Alabama where I was born. I am now finding other members of the Byers family. My mother and sisters and brothers have since passed on but, I am locating other memebers of those sisters and brothers of my mother and her sibblings. They were also taken to European and Asia and some parts of the Caribbean. My Haplo group is L3b. The Songhai group is Mesolithic, Cardial, Linearband, Asia Minor, Hebrew, and Palaeolithic. This is a wonderful and broad rich history to me. I have enjoyed the search through the past.

By: Moustapha Touré

Moustapha Touré — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:44:21 +0000

a Wonderful story!

By: Habibatou

Habibatou — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:59:17 +0000

Congrats Auntie! Thanks to you I knaw more about the Toures and other relatives and so will my children

By: Dieynaba Ba

Dieynaba Ba — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:50:23 +0000

A great discovery for me! congratulations!!! this is a a very good work which for sure will be helpful for new generation. Thanks

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:14:15 +0000

Not at all – it’s a great story and I think it offered an excellent level of detail, both on the branches of the family tree and what those people’s lives were like.

By: Madina Toure

Madina Toure — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 10:38:32 +0000

I am very weak in English, so I will say one thing only: my hope (when I was composed this text) was to call all my family for unity. Excuse me if I forgot or not develop all our genealogy. I will try do it another time. Thanks