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A Gift Given, Continues to Give
As an African-American child in 1980, George Edward Jones reflects upon a 6th-grade family history homework assignment that required him to research and share his family ancestry with his classmates. George recalls a caucasian classmate sharing, “My Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Grandfather fought against the English in the Revolutionary War.” George follows with, “My Grandfather owns a farm with a lot of cows, chickens, pigs, and goats. He pulls out giant Catfish trying to swallow his arm ...”. His teacher asks in a way of encouraging him to add more, “And what about his father?”. George could not answer that question.
George grew up believing that he was the oldest of 3 children and the man raising him was his biological father. He wasn’t aware that his mother swore an entire family to secrecy about his father’s identity which was revealed in 2006, when he was 38 years old.
It wasn’t until after he appeared on the Dr. Phil Show, “Who am I?” episode in 2007, that he spoke on the phone with his biological father, George Edward Freeney Sr., for the first time. It was actually his younger half-brother, George Edward Freeney Jr. that called him to share that they grew up as a family knowing about him and always wonder where he was.
Although George was relieved, he felt his life had been completely written for him, and then the whiteboard was wiped out. Discovering his biological father’s identity only made him wonder more about discovering who he really was and where his African ancestors originated from. Home-based DNA test kit technology was not available at that time, so George’s first attempts with researching his Genealogy revealed the proverbial wall caused by the civil war and Jim Crow periods.
