MELUNGEON URLS:

Here is a list of urls that I have found that deal with various Melungeon
families and research. Please send in any urls that you have
used during your research too.

This site contains many other Melungeon connections: Martha Short's
Melungeon links page:
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mtnties/mlgnlinks.html


Pam Cresswell's:
1. The American Local History Network,
Melungeon Research page;

http://cresswells.com/alhn/melung/index.html

2. The Melungeon Heritage Association, Inc.,
http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Inn/1024/

3. The Melungeon List Webpage

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/3778/

4.Short's Country Store; click on Melungeon Information. Martha has two
pages on Melungeons so choose to look at both.

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mtnties Mountain Ties or

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/3778/ Melungeon Page


5.In Plain Site
A fascinating site describing archaelogical findings in the middle of
the
United States of folks who were not supposed to be here but were.

http://www2.privatei.com/~bartjean/mainpage.htm

6.The Melungeon Outpost; a place for sharing...

http://www.bright.net/~kat/melung.htm

7. GenForum has a Melungeon site where you can read and post queries.

http://genforum.genealogy.com/melungeon/ or go to the GenForum site and
type in: Melungeon

8. If you are on AOL, go to aol's Genealogy Forum, click `Messages,'
`Ethnic and Special Groups,' `Melungeons.' You can read and post queries
here.

9. Under One Sky is a Melungeon news magazine. There are connections
here to
other Melungeon sites.

http://www.geocities.com:80/BourbonStreet/Square/5018/UOS/Page_1x.html

10. The Melungeon Health Education and Support Network
http://www.melungeonhealth.org/
This is my page on the health issues facing Melungeon
descendants. It is MOST important that descendants understand the
Mediterranean illness that can affect them. Please view this page with
that in mind.

11. Home of the Original Kansas Sundowner! Click on the Melungeon
connection.
http://www.fortunecity.com/millenium/redwood/971/.

12. Appalachia Creek Family History & Research
http://members.xoom.com/BJ_Dillon/Appalachiack.htm

13. Appalachian Mountain Families
http://members.xoom.com/Appalachian/

14. The Mystery of the Melungeons
http://archive.msstate.edu/listarchives/afrigeneas/199811/msg00737.html

15.Smythe County News
http://www.smythnews.com/981112/I-Articles/fp-2.htm

16. This site is under construction but keep going back for additions
http://dogwoodpress.myriad.net/dcm/melungeons.html

16. http://www.qni.com/~suni
Our Family Tree- researching Martin, Van Namee, Mann, Goodman, Lowry,
Rutledge, Roark and others; seeking info about Melungeons, Native
Americans and Black Dutch.

17. http://www.korrnet.org/overhome/page3e.html
Hancock County, the home of the Melungeons

18. http://www.murrah.com/gen/redbones.htm
Melungeons and Redbones

19.http://www.theroanoker.com/brc/melung/melung.html
The Melungeons: Blue Ridge Country Magazine

20.http://www.iigs.org/newsletter/9810news/melungeo.htm
The Mystery of the Melungeons, by Nancy Sparks Morrison
IIGS=D6 Newsletter - October 1998

21. http://history.cc.ukans.edu/heritage/cousin/cousin_main.html
Cousins Corner

22.http://www.murrah.com/gen/ashworth.htm
Ashworth Family Page

23. http://hometown.aol.com/bvmundy/Pubpage.html
Leven Cole Page

24.http://home1.gte.net/msnyder1/HOcem.html
Haw Orchard Cemetary, Grayson Co. Va

25. http://www.uwf.edu/~english/Panther-Yates/famhist.htm
Family History Page of Donald and Cedarsong Panther-Yates.

26. http://members.xoom.com/BJ_Dillon/Appalachiack.htm
Appalchian Creek Research page


27. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/8056/bakerb.html
Bolling (including Bolen, Boling, Bowling, etc.) and Baker family

28. http://www.abraxis.com/beegee/Genealogy/KyWhitle.html
Bunch Family of KY

29. http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/_vti_bin/shtml.exe/Virginia_NC.htm
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Delaware Free African
Americans

30. http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/vaindians.htm
Virginia's Indians, Past and Present

31. http://www.kentuckyexplorer.com
The Kentucky Explorer Magazine - this site has a fully functional
message
board with search capabilities. Many Melungeon surnames listed here.

32. http://www.geocities.com/~russmyers/names2.htm#Biggs
Biggs Family Researchers

33. http://members.tripod.com/gardner_2/idxd.htm#davis
Davis Family Researchers

34.http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gowenrf/msie.htm
The Gowen Research
Searching all spellings of this name including Goen, Goings, Goin/s,
Gouen, Gorins and many others.

35.http://www.ls.net/~newriver/nrv.htm
New River Notes, resources for the Upper New River Valley of NC &
VA. (Ashe, Alleghany, Watagua and Wilkes County, North Carolina and
Grayson County, & SW VA.

36. http://www.melungeons.org/hancock13.jpg
A picture showing the view from Newman's Ridge, Hancock Co., TN, right
outside of Sneedville, TN and home of the Melungeons

37.http://www.virginiadynamics.com/melung.htm
The Melungeons: Tri-Racial Isolates In a Clinch (Valley) - a short
article

38.http://artsci.wustl.edu/~stone/history/
Southwest Virginia History and Genealogy (Many Melungeon surnames on the
list.)

39. Melungeon Research page
http://members.aol.com/Strat43z/melung.html

40.From Virginia Tech, comes the story of MELUNGEON-COLORED, by Mildred
Haun.
Excellent story - be sure to read it.
http://athena.english.vt.edu/~appalach/readings/melungeon.htm

41. Renegade Cherokee includes the BOGGS family and more information on
those of Cherokee descent who did not go on the Trail of Tears.
http://community.webtv.net/RenegadeCheroke/RENEGADECHEROKES

42. Melungeon Connections is a new site that has some great info and
connected sites available:
http://www.angelfire.com/in3/melungeon

43 A Taliaferro webpages from which some Tollivers are finding
connections:.
http://assentweb.com/taliaferro/ and http://taliaferro.net/

44. From Gowen research a LOT of information on the Melungeons with
other surnames included and much data on the movement and placement of
Melungeons and their beginnings: Be sure to scroll down and read the part
entitled:
I Am Proud to Be a Melungeon and the two peices by Evelyn McKinley Orr.
http://www.llano.net/gowen/melungia/melungia.001

45. Virginia DeMarce has written much against Brent Kennedy's book. Here
Kennedy defends his theories and gives added information on the
Melungeons:
http://www.llano.net/gowen/melungia/melungia.002

46. Shalacy Manderson, 12 years old, is an up and coming songstress of
Melungeon descendancy. She has a wonderful song her parent wrote, simply
called The Melungeon Song. Visit her page, hear the song and check out
her links to her Melungeon ancestry
http://www.geocities.com/mamashills/MelungeonSong.html

47. Baber Connection: In the Shadows of the Blue Ridges. This
interesting story of one family's trouble with 'color' and the hiding of the picture
of "Baber," in a cedar chest, tells much about the way that many Melungeons
were forced to live.
http://baberfamilytree.org/People/shadows.htm#James Reed Baber

48 Denton Family and other Kentucky Surnames (Denham Connections).
http://www.netwalk.com/~mmchenry/denton.htm

49. Appalachian Origin Fuels Race Debate, an older article but with some
good information
http://www.kentuckyconnect.com/heraldleader/news/101997/forgins.html

50. Family Genealogy:
http://community-2.webtv.net/lrockcastle/FamilyGenealogy/=20
This site has several Melungeon surnames listed.

51. This new website is Sherry Huff's and it contains some Melungeon
surnames:
http://www.megspace.com/family/mourningstar/=20

52. Brenda Nichols Melungeon page. Unlike a lot of us Brenda knew all
her life that she was a Melungeon descendant. This site is from her
prespective as such. :
http://brendanichols.tripod.com/melungeon.html

53. The Melungeon Homepage:
http://www.melungeons.com
The Premier Melungeon research page.

 54.THE WAYBACK MACHINE This following url will get you to some OLD sites that
used to be on the net but are no longer there. IF you know the OLD url,
you insert it into the search engine and most of the time a page or two will
come up.

http://www.archive.org/index.html

55. http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Inn/1024/
  Melungeon Heritage Association

56.http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gowenrf/guests.htm
 Gowen Research Foundation Guests Page

57. http://melungeons.com/
  Melungeons.com

58. http://www.darkfiber.com/blackirish/
  the Black Irish Myth

59. http://home.att.net/~englishamerica/places/va169.htm#Virginia
 American Plantations and Colonies - Virginia Ships & Passengers, 1690-1699

60. http://www.multimap.com/
  Multimap.com: Online Maps to Everywhere

61. http://web.uccs.edu/~history/index/colonial.html
  Begin with Colonial U.S.

62.http://www.geocities.com/bourbonstreet/inn/1024/plecker.html
  Plecker

63. http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Square/5018/Page_8x.html
  Darlene Wilson on Race

64.http://www.geocities.com/~underonesky/Page_14x.html
 Kennedy's response to DeMarce

65. http://www.geocities.com/mamashills/shadows.html
  The Forgotten Ancestors of the West Virginia Guineas

66.http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mtnties/source.html
Melungeon Source Page

67.http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mtnties/name.html
 Melungeon Names by Geographic Area

68. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~appalachian/
Appalachian Mountain Families

69. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~ysbinns/vataxlists/
 "1790" / "1800" County Tax Lists of Virginia

70. http://www.cla.sc.edu/sciaa/staff/depratterc/newweb.htm
  Santa Elena home page

71. http://www.ls.net/~newriver/swva/swvahs.htm
 Historical Sketches of Southwest Virginia

72.http://www.udent.com/askadentist.asp?t=48
 Ask a Dentist -  UDENT is Your Source.
 For the shovel teeth naturally!! :-)

73. http://www.geocities.com/mikenassau/definition.htm
  Melungeon Definition 2000 While new information continues to come in about Melungeon origins, this
  concensus definition is still a pretty good one.

The Hi-Jacking of Melungeon Research Part II

The following is taken from a post I made at Ancestry.com. The original Hi-Jacking of All Melungeon research is below this part II and if you have not read it, you need to do so in order to understand the current arguments that are taking place. Just scroll down the page to get to that entry before reading this.

 

A member of the opposing group of Melungeon researchers responded to my original post. Here is my response to her with bits and pieces of her post so that it will make sense:

 

Nancy wrote:
You and your group have HI-JACKED ALL Melungeon research and your response to this post of mine shows what I am saying to be EXACTLY what you are doing.

You refuse to let anyone have any opinion of their own about Melungeons and ONLY the things that you say are supposed to be true. You inundate the internet with hateful mail and then when folks respond you have it deleted!! But at least it is on there long enough for folks to read both sides of the story.
And this post will be on my blogspot soon at:
http://journals.aol.com/nmorri3924/MelungeonResearch/

Your OPINIONS do not make things TRUE. You have NEVER been able to turn this into anything to amount to anything.
You note:

For years you ran this on your page
''Here is an overview of the five major medical problems that some Melungeon descendants inherit. ''

YES, I did. I have never denied this. Then ONE illness was shown to not be inherited, so I changed that, THEN I was ASKED to remove the MJD materials by Marie Boutte with whom I PERSONALLY consulted, not just listened to a report because of the seriousness of the illness and the stigma that it placed upon families amongst whom it was found.

You have ABSOLUTELY NO PROOF of the following statement. YOU WISH it were true. IT is NOT.

"When in fact there was not ONE Melungeon descendant that had inherited it."

Please note the following from my own report which you just used on Marie's talk about MJD which you THOUGHT proved your point. It doesn't!:

Nancy wrote:

"At 10:30 am June 17, 2004, Marie gave a talk to a full room on Machado-Joseph's Disease.
MJD is a rare illness. To date Marie said that she had not identified this illness in any Melungeon family and she was researching in order to do so or eliminate this illness.

PLEASE NOTE the 'to date' - Marie was not able to eliminate this illness simply because of what Brent KNEW.

You just DISPROVED your own wish by copying Kennedy's statement:
"Also conveniently overlooked by DeMarce are half a dozen confirmed cases of the extremely rare genetic disorder Machado-Joseph Disease among Melungeon descendants (most recently in an elderly East Tennessee male now cooperating with Portuguese geneticists at McGill University, and an eastern Kentucky woman diagnosed with MJD this spring at Johns Hopkins, who has also been referred to McGill)."

Aside from these folks mentioned above, I personally spoke with 2 other people who had been diagnosed with this illness. It is ALWAYS fatal and if one parent has it, there is a 50/50 chance that the children can have it. IT STIGMATIZES EVERY family that shows this illness.

AND it SHAMES YOU that you continue to mention this illness, when you KNOW what you are saying about it is NOT TRUE and it is damaging to all Melungeons.

You note:

"No Melungeon diseases,"

NO ONE HAS EVER SAID there were any Melungeon diseases. I have repeatedly said, "there are no Melungeon diseases and there never have been!"

And yet, you continue this litany apparently hoping not only to convince others but yourself that it is true when it already IS TRUE. There are no Melungeon diseases and you and your group are the ONLY ones who use this terminology and are RESPONSIBLE for spreading this lie around the internet.

You said:
"no Melungeon squats,"

I apologize for starting this MYTH in my innocence as a beginning Melungeon researcher. I HAVE ALREADY apologized all over the internet anywhere I find this mentioned. I have been apologizing for YEARS now. NO ONE BUT YOU has ever kept this up. YOU are responsible for spreading this MYTH around the internet simply because you think it embarrasses me, when in fact you are the one who should be embarrassed.

You wrote:
"no Melungeon bumps"
And again this is YOUR MYTH. No one has EVER spoken of a Melungeon BUMP. Anatolian yes, but NOT MELUNGEON and YOU are responsible for spreading this MYTH over the internet.

You said:
"-- we haven't hijacked anything but we sure have straightened out the Melungeon research"

And that is strictly YOUR OPINION of your research capabilites and your EGO speaking!! You can not prove any of the things you have spoken of in THIS e-mail. What you have done is use innuendo, half-truths, untruths and other specious arguments to try to put yourself in a good light and demean others. You embarrass yourself by continuing to do so but apparently you do not see that. Is it not seeing the forest for the trees?

A good researcher does not need to do things like you have done; destroying reputations of disabled folks who are not able to defend themselves should not make you proud. How sad that it seems to for you!
Love and health in family ties,
Nancy
The Melungeon Health Education and Support Network:
http://www.melungeonhealth.org

 

The Hi-Jacking of ALL Melungeon Research

The following opinion was posted to the Melungeon message board at rootsweb.com.

I am also posting it here and in other places to assure that it remains available on the net.

 

To any Melungeon researcher:
Approximately 50 people have hi-jacked ALL Melungeon research, calling it their own and refusing to listen to anyone who has conflicting views.

 

Wherever possible, the owners of lists concerning Melungeons have restricted their membership to those folks who agree with their statements and have refused to allow any statements other than approved ones to be on their lists.  Their stated purpose is to limit their lists to people who support the aims of the list and who are in tune with its philosophy, thus insuring that any IDEA in variance with these aims will never be heard by their membership. Doesn't this sound 'funny' to you?  Isn't something similar going on in Texas today?

 

Some members of these specific lists have been unsubbed from the lists without notification. This also closes the archives of these lists to the view of anyone having an opposing position. What is all the secrecy about? Is there something shameful going on that we should know about and that they don't want known?

 

Even this message board has been taken over by this small group and I feel it is quite likely that my message here will be deleted shortly, so I am placing it on several Melungeon blogs as well. It will remain on the net for folks to find.

 

I firmly DISAGREE with much of what has been written in the last few months on boards such as this one, excepting certain proven documents from the past. I firmly believe that Melungeon research should NOT be quashed by folks who have determined that ONLY the people that they WANT to be Melungeons or descendants can post to this or any list without them posting e-mails with all sorts of complaints, ridicule, nasty words etc. I FIRMLY disagree that the reputations of researchers who are unable because of disability to defend their work should be ruined by POLITICAL debate of something that happened after WW I that has been ongoing in Melungeon research at the present.

 

I have as much right to research and disseminate Melungeon data as anyone else. Yet, I am talked about both behind my back and to my face. I am dismissed from Melungeon research according to this SMALL group of approx. 50 people and made fun of. This affects me, but it also affects hundreds of other folks who would LIKE to know about their Melungeon descended families, possible health issues and more, and yet they are afraid to post simply because of what they have seen posted by a VERY FEW of the most vocal of this group of restrictive Melungeon researchers.

 

The beliefs of this small group of researchers about Melungeons are racist, restrictive, and in my own personal opinion they try to deny anything other than European and Native American ancestry. While I would like to unify people, they divide.

 

If you do not like such tactics, I invite you to join my Melungeon mailing list where folks are friendly, many origins, and genealogies are discussed along with culture, history, dna, and more. There is NO fighting, NO arguments on my list. It is active, different everyday and highly interesting. Please send an e-mail to:
Melungeons-subscribe@topica.com

 

Look for a response from nmorri3924@aol.com and I will be glad to have you joining us.
Love and health in family ties,
Nancy
The Melungeon Health Education and Support Network:
http://www.melungeonhealth.org