Del Jupiter: 96 year-old. Flushing out award winning truths from family stories.

Del shares stories about having free rein of a millionaire's estate as a child in Pensacola, Florida and hunting for Spanish pirate's gold near the bayou; attending her beloved Spelman College; dispelling family lore that a slave ancestor was born in Spain by instead tracing her roots back to 1770 Spanish Louisiana; discovering her ancestor was Portuguese instead of Indian according to family tradition and translating his Spanish records; providing research which resulted in white and Filipino families learning that they share slave ancestry and a tale of a poisoning attempt; being the first black member of the Florida Pioneer Descendants Society by documenting ancestors living in Florida before it became a state; proving that her German speaking Swiss American Revolutionary War patriot Anthony Kelker had a descendant that was not full bloodied white, as argued by a relative, but instead was a Pennsylvania Dutch free man of color; receiving an award of excellence from the National Genealogical Society. Read Del's biography at www.daughterdialogues.com/daughters

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