In 1991, a meeting took place. Attending it were a few elders and prominent members and family heads from various multigenerationally mixed race families that had mixed ancestry in their family lineages going back to the colonial period of American and Canadian history before the independence of the two respective countries. The meeting attendees were kept anonymous to avoid scrutiny and harassment, because they were going to make a controversial decision. To choose a name for the community.

For generations, many of these mixed race families have been called many terms by outsiders to describe them, including terms like "Yellowbones" and "Free People Of Color" and terms that are considered slurs or outdated today.

Now, the community finally had a chance to make a name for themselves. The term Qarsherskiyan was chosen. It comes from Qarsherskiy or Qarcerskiy, which meant people of Qarcer. The legend of Qarcer was not written down, but was a folktale orally passed down over many generations in some families. It is considered to be folklore more than facts, but the legend of Qarcer is about a large tree called the Qarcer Tree. Different versions of the story disagree on what kind of tree it was and its location, but it's usually believed to be a Live Oak tree that had indentations on the ends of it's leaves instead of points, giving it's leaves a heart shape. According to folk legend, the big old tree with its gnarly and twisted branches was a meeting point for poor Whites and Native Americans and Black people and other people in colonial America to meet, where ideas and culture were exchanged. Because of this, the legend of Qarcer seemed like a fitting source for a name for the community, and Qarsherskiyan was chosen by a Qarsherskiyan elder who had Polish ancestry from a Polish immigrant who married into the family, an Ashkenazi Jew fleeing anti-Semitism and seeking opportunities in America. 

There are many different people who consider themselves Qarsherskiyan today, and the main Qarsherskiyan groups are the Tidewater Qarsherskiyan community and those that descended from the Tidewater Qarsherskiyan community by travelling to new areas and forming new communities, such as the Appalachian Qarsherskiyan community and the Ohio / Midwestern / Great Lakes area Qarsherskiyan community. In New England, some families not related to the main Tidewater descended Qarsherskiyan community also adopted the term Qarsherskiyan as they had similar mixed heritage and parallel histories. The same also happened for some mixed families and communities in Canada, and there are also Qarsherskiyan people who moved to Canada during the Great Migration of families who were Black or People of Color to escape prevalent discrimination. It is often said that in 1991, all the families considered to be what was then called "Triracial Isolates", who weren't categorized or belonging to any of the "Triracial Isolate" groups — such as the Lumbee Tribe, the Melungeon community, or the Louisiana and Texas are Redbone community — were lumped together as Qarsherskiyan if they sought to preserve their blended heritage and identity, which was the purpose of the new identity marker "Qarsherskiyan" being used. It is a new term but the Qarsherskiyan people are not new. It's the same old families that existed quietly for all these centuries, now united together through the internet and by attending cultural events. 

By 2019, the term Qarsherskiyan finally begin catching on by many members of these mixed families on the internet, and by 2025, as much as 3,000 of the estimated 498,000 Qarsherskiyan descendants were self-identifying as "Qarsherskiyan" to describe their heritage or ethnic identity. The term lacks academic recognition and because of the new nature of the term, the Qarsherskiyan Creole community has faced pushback from being recognized and accepted as a community. Young Qarsherskiyan people began using the Internet by 2020 to make videos and social media posts documenting the Qarsherskiyan Creole community and their theories about the origins of the families known today as the Qarsherskiyans. Because of the new name for the community and the nature of the Qarsherskiyan identity being an old identity given a new name, there aren't old records from before 1991 mentioning any such term as Qarsherskiyan. Qarsherskiyan ancestors are labelled as "negro" and "colored" and "mulatto" and many other terms that are now outdated and rejected by many Qarsherskiyan families, with terms like "quadroon" and "octaroon" being now seen as downright offensive. 

Since historical records obviously cannot mention the Qarsherskiyan community as a distinct and coherent identity before the new term "Qarsherskiyan" for the older community was coined in 1991, there has been much confusion on the internet, and misinformation has spread about the Qarsherskiyan community, with some people wrongly believing that the Qarsherskiyan people don't exist, because they never heard of the term and it seems to be a new term only recently catching on and only used on the internet. The struggle for acceptance and recognition is not helped by slander, with some bigoted internet trolls, with agendas to erase the history of mixed race people and interracial marriages in colonial America, working around the clock to spread misinformation claiming that no mixed race people existed in the USA or Canada before the modern times and coming up with conspiracy theories that range from anything as little as claiming Qarsherskiyan people are just Black and White and "not really mixed" to trying to claim Qarsherskiyan people are robots or a "bot farm hoax" on the internet, due to the young Qarsherskiyan people using social media to post about their history and culture for archiving and preservation purposes for future generations. Qarsherskiyan youth leaders online have asked their Qarsherskiyan friends and family to use certain hashtags such as the following to help Qarsherskiyan Creole people find one another's posts and support one another against racism, internet trolls, slander, and harmful conspiracy theories.

#Qarsherskiyan #Kriol #Qarsherskiyans #Zambo #Pardo #Castizo #Cafuzo #mixed_race #triracial #triracial_isolate #creole #mixed #mixedrace #multiracial #qarsherskiy #Qarsherskiyan_Tribe #Qarsherskiyan_folks #Qarsherskiyan_people #sweetgum_kriyul #qarsherskiyan #qarsherskiyans #qarsherskiy #ethnic_qarsherskiyan #sweetgum_creole #qarsherskiyan_people #qarsherskiyan_tribe #Karşirskilılar #Karşirskilı #Карширскийан #Карширский #καρσχίρσκιαν #καρσχίρσκιάν

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Through extensive DNA testing combined with genealogical research, the average Qarsherskiyan of Tidewater, Appalachian, or Ohio - Great Lakes - Midwest extract contains DNA from the following ancestral groups:

Black & North African:

Fula (Fulani), Yoruba, Hausa, Mandinka, Songhai, Touareg, Wolof, Fon (Dahomey), Igbo, Kongo

White or Caucasian:

Irish, Welsh, Frisian, Scottish, German, Icelandic, Scotch-Irish, Occitan, Breton, Cornish, Iberian (Basque, Catalan, others)

Jewish:

Sephardim, Ashkenazim, Mizrahim or Crimean Jewish

Indigenous / Native American:

Arctic, Great Plains, Eastern Woodlands

Other:

Malagasy, Saami (Sámi), Roma or Sinti