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.