Wiccocomico and the History of The History Guy 

Yeah, voluntarily submitting your DNA to the government could never possibly have bad repercussions for you, right? LMAO...

Wow, you look almost exactly like your great uncle!!

What a twist! I didn't see that coming.

Thanks Lance for sharing this little known American history that deserves to be remembered; especially your personal connection. You are "the spitting image" of the guy in the top hat🤔😁😎

It seems that you always state history first and then give us a surprise just like you did with the Gold episode and then springing the award from RU-vid with the gold play button clever History Guy

I agree.

They aren't asking for reparations, just recognition and remembrance.

@@WvlfDarkfire please explain how your remark has anything to do with anything in this video or this persons comment.

2nd that!!

Yes, it deserves to be remembered and celebrated. You sir, brought a tear to my eye. … much respect!

Very interesting information I never knew

I live right next to Wicomico County and work there. When I saw the title of this video I figured the two names had to be associated somehow. Its a beautiful area, but unfortunately it is starting to get a bit crowded for my tastes.

​@@slughunter20definitely becoming way too crowded 😔

Also, there is a hall by the same name at University of Maryland College Park. My daughter went there, but I did not learn until a few years later that I am a direct descendant of Chief Taptico..

Give it a try! Count on it being slow progress. But the rewards can be really worth it. My family tree is quite extensive because we've been working on expanding it for a couple of generations I know that at least my great grandmother worked on it, and so has every generation since. Right now we can trace some lines back to the mythical Norse chronicles which are highly suspect, but the most accurate record of that era, and also to similar in Ireland. But my paternal line dead ends in the 1850s. We knew my third great grandfather came from Germany, but did not know where. I can't find him on any ships' manifests either. But about 15 years ago I found somebody else's family history that clearly described him, his wife, and his children, with some variations of spellings of names, but all very similar, and the same number of children with birth years within a year or two of my family records. This was eight children, so the match was very clear. They had a record of him being born in Koben an der Oder in Prussia, which I recognized to be a town name on the Oder Rver. But I couldn't find that town both by Internet searches, and following the Oder river from its source in the Czech Republic to the Baltic Sea on Google maps. After a long time of periodic searching, and I don't remember how long it was maybe a year or two, I found a website with a list of current Polish names of former German cities. Koben an der Oder is now called Chobienia, Poland. So, that line isn't from "Germany" because Germany did not yet exist when he left. They were ethnic Germans living in modern-day Polish territory. So the descendants of those who stayed are some of the ethnic Germans that Hitler used as an excuse to invade Poland about 85 years later. In the 15 or so years since I found that he came from Koben an der Oder my sister-in-law has found the names of his parents and some sparse information on them. They were born in the same general area, but that was part of the holy Roman empire at the time, so German ethnicity but not German citizenship because they were born about 80 years before Germany existed. So far we've been unsuccessful with finding church records to expand this, but that's not surprising since that area of Poland was devastated in both world wars. In the late 1800s one of my brothers found that as an old, senile, blind man one of my great great grandfather's had his teenage son (that adds another quirk to the story) who was mentally handicapped shoot the neighbor. The boy was found not guilty based on his young age and his mental capacity, and the old man was clearly crazy. About it being slow going, I personally have found very little sense the Koben an der Oder discovery, but one of my sisters in law for the most part but also my brother and their kids, have found a lot. They have created a Family Tree with over 16,000 people in it. Much of that was identified by previous generations, but they have certainly added quite a bit. I don't know what to guess but likely 1000 or more. Including finding the next generation of our Prussian line. I tell you those stories, just to motivate, because certainly there are interesting stories to be found in your family tree.

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The Natives robbed/enslaved eachother for hundreds of years.

Have you done a D.N.A. test?

I also am. As my gr x8 grandfather was William Taptico, the last chief.

They weren't "robbed". They lost a WAR against a superior enemy. It happens. Deal with it like a man.

@Whiskey Monk remember that when America aka west China is forced to speak Chinese or Spanish

I love your story. It makes me sad when people paint others with a wide brush like; you're white and have the "white experience" or you're black and have the "black experience", it's just not true. Each person and their family histories are important and they all take unexpected twists and turns. Everyone should be respectful of each other because we don't even know the history of the individuals we meet on a daily basis. I think each person's story should be recorded for history sake.

I’m also a blue eyed blonde with some Cherokee ancestry and Jewish ancestry. According to my DNA test, I’m a carrier for Tays Sachs.

I knew a family like that. The parents were so pure looking, So Cherokee, and really dark, and the wife at least said her family were very particular about marrying Cherokee people, so she was 100% Cherokee, and her husband was nearly so, he just had the one German great grand parent. So as it turned out, they had these three sons, two of which looked very native like their parents, and one towering, blond haired blue eyed, Saxon looking son who everyone thought was adopted. He was actually 90% Cherokee. Those genes get handed down the family tree in funny ways.

No you don’t. My great grandfather married a little petite Swiss woman, blonde blue eyes. They say opposites attract, he was 7’0 tall, Powhatan Indian they must’ve been a sight.

Elizabeth Warren... is that you?

Same with me. Struggled with history my whole life, now at 60 I absorb these lessons like a sponge. I wish Vance was my history teacher too

Still learning and wish I knew more about my last name and how I tie into it all :)

I lived in Chesapeake from 1999-2001 off Military Hwy.

I was born in Norfolk, VA in 1952 and lived there until the late 80s. Do they still call the area "Tidewater"?

@@tombrickhouse-growthmatrix6201 Yes they still call the area Tidewater. I used to go watch the Norfolk Tides play baseball...

@@tombrickhouse-growthmatrix6201 yes, it's still called tidewater.

@@tombrickhouse-growthmatrix6201 Norfolk General 1952. And my twin sister!

Richard Pace is my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather. I'm sure you know about Paces Paines and 1622. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_massacre_of_1622

@@kennethpace9887 Hi Cousin Kenneth. Yes, I know about Paces Paines. I took my children to the 1994 family reunion when the current owners allowed our buses of Pace relatives to visit the property. I'm also aware of the massacre. There are lots of books on the Pace Family and many more on Jamestown and early English settlers. I'm the happy owner of several of them. It's great to 'meet' you via modern tech. I think everyone who descended from Richard Pace has heard family stories. Gotta love 'em.

Amazing! I come from the same lineage, Vincent Tapp born 1726 is my 5th great grandfather.

We are Cherokee, Wiccocomico and Comanche. Also Congolese and a lot of English. We did our genealogy, it's amazing! Queen Mary of Teck was my gr gr aunt! My gr grandfather was Henry William Albert Somerset the fourth, born at Somerset house. Shalom from Texas!

That's easy! Colonel Geiger - he's a Kentucky Colonel, after all.

I had never heard of them either, until I passed through the itty bitty burg of Wicocomico east of Kilmarnock.

I lived near Callao all my life and there was a large oak tree in Heathsville that fell in the late 80s, I can't remember what year, called the Chicacoan Oak. It stood close to Rt. 360 right between the Subway parking lot and the vacant lot that used to have the office for the Northumberland Echo.

Using the link he provided you can have it done for $39 + shipping.

@@IceLynne That will only give general information about what geographic region her genes come from...unless her grandmother happened to also have added her DNA to that particular company's records.

If your grandma is still living, you'll want to do the test on both of you. Keep a watch on the different DNA companies as they always have sales on their kits, and they always have one around Mother's Day which is coming soon!

@@WildWestGal Good tip, WWG!

@@WildWestGal good idea 👍

LOL that was a joke, really. That is an AI photo of me.

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Nice. I did think the part about him being a haberdasher was a bit too ironic.

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel ha ha ha ha ha! Good one, THG.

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel i fell for it and mike drop to you for pronouncing Schenectady correctly

My first cousin does look like our great-grandfather.