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Hi Everyone! I posted a little bit earliet this year for assistance on help with finding out more about the Riano brothers and greatly appreciate the assistance, as grest strides were made! So thank you.

My current headscratcher involves some information regarding Irene Riano's father. I've linked the old thread page for reference.

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=806577.72

I've kept coming across that her father is Joseph Rice, a theater owner from Philadelphia on both wikia and find a grave and a few other sites. Now i know these can be edited and such but i have not been able to find anything regarding him in my research as i have little to go off on aside from these blurbs and the fact he worked in show business and it fits with Irene's background in entertainment.

I've come across one issue that she may not be related to this man and was actually born in ohio in 1874 and died in 1940 in Los Angelas, California. Her maiden name may have been Couples but that's been up for debate. Im curious if I'm on the right track with Couples or if Joseph Rice is in fact her father and there's a mix up of indfomation?

Any assistance would be appreciated to get me on the right track. Thank you as always!

Okay, I did a little more sleuthing and found a US Federal slave census record that matches up pretty closely to the information I have on Samuel. He was a slave at the age of 7 when he was on the Urquhart plantation. According to the records, it looks like this was in Montgomery County, Alabama to a slave owner named Henry S. Urquhart on October 7th, 1850. Hoping this pans out a bit and if I can find any slave owner records that can expand on.

Are there any direct line male descendants available for yDNA tests? or even autosomal  DNA might match the Urquharts closely enough, assuming someone on the slaveowner's side has submitted samples.

Thank you for the book recommendation! I'll look into it.
I do not think there are any direct males that we know of sadly.

Hello everyone!

I'm having a little bit of trouble tracing back my fiances' roots and want to make sure I'm on the right path. Their family has claims to be descendants of the Scottish Urquhart clan, with her mother having done a little bit of research and the oral history going back a few generations, meeting some very distant cousins and so forth.

What I've been trying to find is that "correlation" between when their family began. My research and information has been that it may be from Samuel J. Urquhart (JUL 1842: Alabama - AUG 1885 : Early County, Georgia, USA ) who was a slave. Now this is probably all but impossible but I'm trying to see if Samuel was the illegitimate child Alexander Urquhart: AUG 1799(?): Georgia -  3 OCT 1864: Bethel Baptist, Clay County, Georgia). It goes from the family being Mulatto (mixed) to the  Scottish lineage of Urquhart.

I know I'm probably way off, and that the family tree can abruptly end with the slave trade history but any assistance would be appreciated! Thank you as always!