The Crafts and Healys fled slavery. Their descendants just met. Are they actually cousins?

Just before Christmas, Tom Riley, 80, and his daughters, Kate, 51, and Erin, 48, did what many families do around the holidays: They exchanged greetings with their cousins over Zoom. Gathered at Erin’s Albuquerque home, they saw the squares on the computer screen filled by Gail DeCosta, 75, in Charleston, S.C.; Vicki Davis Williams, 73, also in Charleston; and Williams’s sister Julia-Ellen Craft Davis, 74, who logged in from her daughter’s home in New Jersey.

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