Hello everyone, I am investigating the genealogical history of my community, the Qarsherskiyan people, a small group of multigenerational mixed-race families mainly living in the Eastern USA. Very little is available for me to do research but the last few years our community has been making breakthroughs on discovering our origins. I got a big hit last week, when tracing back my European ancestry to Wales. Apparently, Welsh Quakers from Pennsylvania came to Newport News, Virginia and maybe also to somewhere around Moyock, North Carolina during the late 1800s, and they had some members of their community marry into some of our families, which explains why some of my cousins have the North Atlantid phenotype (Blue eyes, dark hair, good sized forehead, etc). I am struggling to find much good materials on the Welsh-descended Quakers on the Virginia Peninsula and in the Hampton Roads Area, and I was wondering if anyone knew any good sources to try. I'm kind of new to genealogy and it's been a real struggle to uncover my family history. A lot has been intentionally buried and destroyed, we are like the Melungeons, if you know what I'm talking about. Lots of family history had to be kept secret and buried.
