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Walking Toward the Sunset: The Melungeons of Appalachia (Melungeons: History) (Paperback) | City Lights Bookstore
Walking Toward the Sunset: The Melungeons of Appalachia
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After many years in development, the results of a DNA ancestry project group with autosomal DNA lay to rest an old controversy in American history about Melungeons. The scientific data supporting a genetic mixture of white, American Indian and Sub-Saharan African were placed online today by the organizers of DNA Consultants' Melungeon DNA Project.
Granny Leona's family were the branch that were reportedly Melungeon, that tri-isolate group from up around Sneedville, TN. My uncle remembers his cousins used to hide behind the trees whenever he and his mama would pay her sister a visit up in the Newman's Ridge area. Melungeons didn't take to outlanders, even the ones they were related to
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cherokee melungeon | All these families, moreover, were linked with the Cherokee-Chickasaw ...