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kentuck

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3. Also, there the Pridemores, the Gibsons, and the Goins...

Reply to kentuck (Reply #1)

Fri May 25, 2012, 05:53 PM

May 2012

All these families were always very poor, it seemed to me.

I remember how impressed I was that our neighbors, the Hembrees, were "Indians". The boys in the family did not look like "Indians" but their father and mother looked very native American. Their grandmother, Aunt Sally Gibson, lived with them and she looked as if she was over 100 years old and I was always hesitant to walk too close to her... She had the braids and the appearance of a wise old Indian chief...

Other than that, I knew nothing about their family or where they came from?

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DNA study seeks origin of Appalachia's Melungeons [View all] HiPointDem May 2012 OP

There were several families in SE Kentucky... kentuck May 2012 #1

Also, there the Pridemores, the Gibsons, and the Goins... kentuck May 2012 #3

Collinses, Goinses, Gibsons, all traceable along the NC/VA line moving westward into the mountains carolinayellowdog May 2012 #8

I always found this topic very interesting... kentuck May 2012 #9

You might want to read this book about the lost colonists of Croatan ... eppur_se_muova May 2012 #11

The DNA says African + european. 77 family lines tested, all lines that were listed as melungeon HiPointDem May 2012 #12

Very interesting history. northoftheborder May 2012 #2

Many historians suggest they are of Portuguese descent... kentuck May 2012 #4

lost colonies stuntcat May 2012 #10

Raleigh was a slave trader. As were a lot of explorers of the period, but they don't tell us that HiPointDem May 2012 #16

The history of the term Melungeon is as complicated as the genetics and genealogy carolinayellowdog May 2012 #5

In researching the family in the mountains of NC... kentuck May 2012 #6

Article says they studied only descendants of families called Melungeon in records from the 1800s. HiPointDem May 2012 #14

families can have multiple lines-- there's no disagreement here carolinayellowdog May 2012 #17

cyd... kentuck May 2012 #19

Thanks for posting Randomthought May 2012 #7

weird. it's like nobody read the article. nobody talks about the DNA results, just the lost colony. HiPointDem May 2012 #13

Claiming native American heritage was a strategy used all over this continent EFerrari May 2012 #15

True that Bohunk68 May 2012 #18