Johnson/Johnston & Botts introduction

 Hi Family,

  My name is Stacy Johnston. I am the grandson of; 

Augustus Johnson  born in the year 1870 in Montgomery County, Maryland.       

Mamie Botts  born in the year 1896 in Nottoway County, Virginia. 


 

   I am creating this blog to help find and contact family members from my maternal side. Johnson/Johnston & Botts from Maryland, Virginia and DC.

I also want to place family photos and letters where more family members can access them and may also share anything pertaining to our family if they want to. 

There are some family members on the Johnson side that have done some very good research and or documentation  however as with almost all African American families there are plenty of unanswered questions. Hopefully this blog will help squeeze out a few more answers. I recently took a DNA test at Ancestry dot com and it's been very helpful when it comes to finding lost branches of my family. Now I want to reach out and see if we can't find some common ancestors.



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