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.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
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