Melungeon The Americas Ethnicity

Melungeon The Americas Ethnicity

Melungeon

Melungeons are a group of dark fine-featured people who have lived in Appalachia for at least 200 years and probably longer. They are not, at least exclusively, Native Americans, not African American and not the "usual" Caucasian (read: Scott Irish/German) Appalachians. They were reported to have been there when the first "white" settlers came and were living in cabins, speaking broken Elizabethan English and saying they were "Portyghee". This original group settled in Hancock County, TN, and early on spread to Wise County, VA. Now there are Melungeons and their descendants all over the region, east Tennessee, western Virginia and northern North Carolina. There are also several other similar groups that the name has been applied to, such as the Kentucky Melungeons, in southeastern Kentucky, and the Graysville Melungeons, between Knoxville and Chattanooga.

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- Established to document and preserve the cultural legacy of mixed-ancestry peoples in the southern Appalachians. Articles, links, and information about periodic Melungeon conventions known as "unions".
- A discussion group mainly for Melungeon genealogy.
- Archives at RootsWeb. Choose arranged by subject threads or chronological order, with or without names and dates. Search for names or topics of interest.
- Messages on this Rootsweb mailing list. Includes some of the discussion on the Malange area of Angola as an origin of some of the original ancestors of the Melungeons.
- Message from Wayne Winkler of the Melungeon Heritage Association about the meeting at Vardy this Summer. Vardy is on Blackwater Creek, behind Newman's Ridge from Sneedville, TN, site of Melungeon mission school.
- This is the Melungeon information page for the American Local History Network.
- How to join the Melungeon Mailing List, from Martha Short's Melungeon Resource Page.
- A theory as to why people of Irish descent like to lay claim to Spanish blood from the Armada. Links the Black Irish to the Melungeons. By Tom Kunesh.
- Contact board for a major new effort to organize Melungeons in state, county or regional groups. See this to establish contact with other Melungeons and interested persons in your area. Posted by SKYEAGLE.
- Melungeon and Genealogy information and links. SE Kentucky connection.
- Jason Adam's paper on the Melungeon struggle for self determination.
- Article in Islamic Horizons, which is a reprint of part of Brent Kennedy's book.
- 1948 article based on Census research on Indian and mixed race groups of eastern U.S. Description, location and common names given for many groups, including the Melungeons and Redbones. By William Harlen Gilbert. 32 pages.
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- This society is trying to preserve the Vardy Melungeon site on Blackwater Creek in Hancock County, TN. Museum in the old Melungeon school. Mahala Mullins' cabin brought to the site from Newman's ridge.
- Description of what is known and unknown about these people of Appalachia. Includes some traditional versions of their origins and description of physical characteristics.
- Discussion of genealogical topics about Melungeon families.
- A magazine which regularly covers items on Melungeons. Link to the Melungeon Registry, which traces family histories of many Melungeon families. List of common Melungeon names.
- A site which has a very long list of other information on the Melungeons plus a recounting of some of the older stories about Melungeon history.
- An interesting site highlighting racial laws that affected Black and mixed race people, with one letter on the Brass Ankles of South Carolina.
- By Nancy Sparks Morrison. Provides information about the major Mediterranean illnesses that are inherited through the Melungeon connection.
- A definition of the term Melungeon with an attempt to describe who would be included in the group.
- Here is a site from Melungeons determined to resist scientific and historical research and maintain their old legends as truth.
- Shirley Hornbeck's This and That Genealogy Tips, Genealogy Tips on Black Dutch and Irish, Melungeons, Moravians, Pennsylvania Dutch
- Six different meanings for the term Black Dutch or Black German.
- By John S. Kessler and Donald B. Ball. Paper on the Melungeons of Carmel, Ohio, presented at Third Union, posted on the Melungeon Heritage Association webpage. Good history of Melungeons and it gives name distributions.
- Full-text on-line book with annotated bibliography. Description and history of the Melungeons and other mixed race groups in the eastern United States. By Mike Nassau.
- Histories of her family and some notable Melungeons such as Mahala Mullins. Some links. By Brenda Nichols.
- GenSeeker at Rootsweb links to Melungeon sites (89 sites)
- An article about early contact between Native Americans and Muslims, which contends many Native Americans adopted Islam. This may tie in with the better known Masonic movement among Native Americans.
- Melungeon research, family searches and other information is freely exchanged in a friendly forum.
- This Group is for Goins From Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Everyone with Goins ancestry (all spellings and areas) is welcome.
- Discussion group on Melungeon history and origins.
- The Redbones or Louisiana Melungeons are a mixed origin group living near the Sabine River on the Texas-Louisiana border. They are connected to both the Melungeons and the mixed race groups of South Carolina.
- A site dedicated to the folk heroine of the Melungeons with a photograph of her.
- If you follow these links that I have listed here you'll notice that there are various theories on who the Melungeons were, and what their ancestry was. This makes the Melungeons all the more interesting, because no one knows for certain their background
- Gives links to many sites, including the articles on the new DNA study.
- Term paper written by a Turkish student in Colorado.
- Historical sketch, and information about surnames common in the Melungeon community.
- Shalacy is a 13 year old country/folk entertainer. She sang her "Melungeon Song" at the Melungeon Third Union. Site has links and her school report on the Melungeons.
- List of Melungeon surnames. Register your family.
- Newsletter of Melungeon research and history by Bill Fields. No longer published, but information still available.
- A group dedicated to investigating the history and origins of the Redbones, also known as the Louisiana Melungeons.
- Listings of books, journals, bibliographies, and other research resources, including links, provided by the Appalachian State University Libraries in Boone, North Carolina.
- Information on families with the name Gowen, including variations. This includes the most common Melungeon name, Goins, Goin, Goings, Going, and others. Search the newsletters.
- The Black Dutch, German Gypsies, or Chicanere, and their relation to the Melungeons, by Linda D. Griggs.
- A book by Pat Spurlock Elder. Published by Continuity Press. Very controversial and considered unreliable by many researchers. Includes link to her talk at Second Union.
- Part of Mountain Ties, Martha Short's site for Appalachian genealogy. This list gives many Melungeons sites.
- Historical information on this group, Saponi Indians who migrated widely and contributed many ancestors to modern Melungeons, Cherokee, African-Americans and Whites in the Southeast and Appalachians. Perhaps the principal Indian source of the Melungeons.
- Article from Blue Ridge Country magazine on the First Union of the Melungeons and Brent Kennedy's work.
- Book on American Indians and the origin of the Melungeons, by Karlton Douglas.
- Family history of 500 African American families who were free in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland and Delaware from the colonial period until about 1820. Gives information on the free Mulattos of Virginia and their role in the formation
- Includes a FAQ about the mixed Mediterranean-Indian heritage of Melungeons, genealogy links, and information on the Melungeon mailing list. By Martha Short
- Some reference to Muslim presence among the Indians which might tie into the cultural observations which have been used as evidence of a Turkish presence in Colonial times. Emphasis is on Mediterranean Muslims, not the much better evidenced contact with
- An introductory site on the Melungeons, with a list of common surnames. By Nancy Sparks Morrison
- Site where Melungeons can post pictures of their family for others to see.
- Description of several groups which are called Melungeon. Stresses the need to have a definition broad enough to cover all of them, by Mike Nassau.

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