Hello, my name is Tammy. I live in southern ohio, but grew up in ann arbor,michigan, My dad passed away last year at 55, he lived in ky. after his death I grew...
"Black Dutch" - A Polite Euphemism? http://www.melungeon.org/?BISKIT=367877315&CONTEXT=cat&cat=10092 by Darlene Wilson Note: This article, slightly revised...
Go to -- http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?resource=frengdict There is a French to English (or vice versa) dictionary. Type in "mixed" for the English word. See the...
In the last message, Vance noted "melangeons" as a form of the French verb "melanger", meaning "to mix". It is the first person plural present tense and the...
Would somebody out there know of an online Masters Degree in Native American Studies, or Appalachian Studies? I have searched several times with no luck. ...
Hi, My grandmother-Alice Collins was a Melungeon. Her parents were from Sneedville Tennessee. I would be very excited to talk with someone that knows about the...
The y-chromosome test will not owrk for me as it goes back to my Hawkins -- English/Irish. mom too goes back, through mtDNA to European. So I went to GeneTree...
Greetings, After Jean Patterson Bible passed away in December 2005, I bought her book, The Melungeons: Yesterday and Today. The book I bought was published in...
Dear Group, Can anyone tell me if any of the following are known to be Melungeun surnames? I know that none of them is as common as Goins or Collins etc. But...
I am a descendant of Ambrose Brewer, through his descendant Braxton Brewer of Sneedville, Hancock County, TN. Any cousins out there? Sandi Rose Kansas City,...
Wikipedia, the largest on-line encyclopedia, has a fairly long and detailed definition of Melungeon at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melungeon There will be...
The Importance of the Melungeon Community to Turkish-American Relations by David L. Arnett I would like to begin by expressing heartfelt greetings to all of...
My husband's families are very vague about their origins. The grandmother who raised him was born on a reservation in Ada, OK, in 1907. She said her...
Hello, I have been researching my family history for three year now. I also taken an mtdna test. What I'm discovering is that I'm of Portuguese, NA and East...
My family came from the south several generations ago. We have dark, very curly hair. Our eyes have the asiatic fold in the corner. We also have the anatolian...
There will be an Atlanta Meeting for Melungeon research this Saturday July 15th at the Borders Book Store across from the Mall of Georgia off of I-85 @ 4 PM....
This will be my last post here. I have heard Collins, Goins etc etc since being in this group. I have a Collins and lots of Driggers which is supposed to be...
I just thought of something else too. Mr Heneigg's Book speaks of Emmanuel Rodrigues being bought by a Francis Potts of Magotha Bay, North Hampton Co, Va. in...
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Yvonne -- You might have just solved the last puzzle of the mistery -- by having a historical document shortening RoDRIGUES to Driggers. This might be the...
Happy BirthdayVirginia! Virginia Dare - the first child of English settlers in America - was born on this day, August 18th, in 1587 to Ellinor and Ananias...
Hi everyone, I'm new here and very happy to have found this group. My husband is Melungeon and I want to learn all that I can about his heritage. He was also...
I submitted a mtDNA test to the Genographic Project. I have a straight maternal line back six generations to Rachel, who my grandmother told me was Creek...
Some of the most obscure and mysterious ethnic groups in America will be discussed at the Atlanta Central Library on November 18. Moreover, a surprising number...
My godfather practiced a form of religion that he said he learned in Virginia in the 1960's when he was adopted into a group of people he called "the Free...
Hello to all of you! My name is Jeff and my wife is Tina. My wife is cousin to the underonesky.org owner Bill Fields. I'm glad to have found this group and...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/melungeonsorredbonesorrenegades/ Years of research by many genealogy hobbyists, and some professionals as well, to dissuade...
Hello, I am new to this group and wanted to introduce myself. I am Fran C., I live just outside of Louisville Ky and originally from Lee Co.Va. Am trying to...
I think I left off some very important ancestors from my previous message. Claypools, Spurlocks, Avent and Bakers. I may have added some of these names but...
