Comments : It was always said my ggrandmother was
heavily dipped, so nobody ever spoke of until my grandmother
died. Then we asked our grandfather and he laughed and said
no she came from the Blackwater people. Unfortunitally I
can`t find a thing of her before the m
Comments continued :
Name : Vikki Sims
City : Bismarck
State : Arkansas
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : paulsims@starband.net
Comments : My husbands g-grandparents were John Wiley
Tapp and Fannie McCowen Tapp. They lived in Winthrop, AR and
are buried there.
Comments continued :
Name : Debbie Aguilar
City : Garland
State : Texas
Country : U.S.A.
Home page :
Email address : dagui26935@AOL.COM
Comments : There is lots of information on the
website. Thank you for all your hard work. Debbie
Comments continued :
Name : James Keith Houston
City : Acworth
State : Georgia
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : james_houston@hotmail.com
Comments : Both mother & fathers family are swarthy
people blended with lighter, Caucasian-looking kin like
myself. Mothers geneology had member listed in VA that had
Melungeon or Indian with question mark next to name. Her
Mothers family claimed they were Black Iri
Comments continued :
Name : Evelyn Barton Owen
City : Brevard
State : North Carolina
Country : Transylvania
Home page :
Email address : ebowen@citcom.com
Comments : My grandmother told me stories of her
grandmother was an indian and my grandfather was a trader
and that is how they met. My grandmother was a Hyde from
Bryson City NC.
Comments continued :
Name : Beverly Andrade Gonsalves
City : New Bedford
State : MA
Country : U.S.A.
Home page :
Email address : TeechaESOL@aol.com
Comments : I had been in contact with Dr. Kennedy his
heritage and his people. Id seen his article in the Newport
News, VA newspaper and thought he was a Cape Verdean, which
are a mixed ethnic group of people, like the Melungeons.
Maybe we are related and dont know
Comments continued :
Name : Linda Cannon Ratliff
City : New Caney
State : Texas
Country : U.S.A.
Home page :
Email address : canaan39212@yahoo.com
Comments : Shalom and Osiyo! I am Native American and
Jewish. My fathere was born in Georgia, Cannon family, and I
feel we are sephardic. We have Cooper cousins. I want to
know more about this and have been attending Sephardic
seminars and doing research on family n
Comments continued :
Name : Sarah Pipkin Singleton
City : Gainesville
State : Florida
Country : US of A
Home page :
Email address : sst1806@aol.com
Comments : Researching my mothers Sexton line to find
the story of my heritage, found this as a Melungeon family
name which explains a lot of the physical features of my
family
Comments continued :
Name : lonnie lawson
City : lafollette
State : tn
Country : usa
Home page :
Email address : wildman@ccdi.net
Comments :
Comments continued :
Name : Vanessa Price
City : Johnson City
State : TN
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : legal_eagle73@hotmail.com
Comments : I grew up in Council (Davenport), VA and
recently heard about the Melungeons. After reading a few of
the articles, Im wondering how/if Im related.
Comments continued : Some surnames in my ancestry
include Harris and Ball. :)
Name : Linda Bennett Burroughs
City : Richwood
State : WVa
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : kelmika@hotmail.com
Comments : My great grandparents were Spencer and
Dicie Mullens Bennett.I would be most interested in being
able to contact Brent Kennedy. I am interested in the
infomation on the Melungeons. Linda
Comments continued :
Name : Wanda
City : Tolbert
State : NY
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : vagabond@capital.net
Comments : I just read about you in a book so I dont
know much. But, I think you should get the race listed on
the census, etc. Since my husband and I are both mixed, it
would be a great choice. I could also shut my mother up.
When I married a black man, she asked w
Comments continued :
Name : Jim Williams
City : Linden
State : Va
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : snhs_1982@hotmail.com
Comments : Helen, Please contact me in regards to the
Croston families of West Va. Im interested in their origins.
Gustavus Croston was my 5th great grandfather. Im looking
for additional information on their native american lines.
regards, jim
Comments continued :
Name : margaret cooper
City : weimar
State : texas
Country : usa
Home page :
Email address : margaretc@cvtv.net
Comments : I found this website while looking for
information on Black Dutch. I really enjoy the articles. I
am still not sure what Black Dutch is but I
Comments continued : have learned a lot about history.
I have always thought of myself as 100% human any way. Great
website. I shall return! MAC
Name : Laura Sherfey
City : Ann Arbor
State : MI
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : daisymaraisy@myway.com
Comments : I am particularly interested in the Guineas
of Weest Virginia and the prevalence of the Asian eyefold
among Melungeons and related groups. I am descended from the
Spurrs, and via oral history we are Black Dutch and Guinea
descended. If anyone knows about
Comments continued : I also would be interested in any
upcoming Melungeon gatherings, social or academic, so that I
may attend.
Name : Sherry
City : Chester
State : IL
Country : US
Home page : www.nostraprogenitors.com
Email address : wvhillgal@yahoo.com
Comments : Your history is fascinating...however
nearly impossible to read. The dark letters on dark blue is
very hard on the eyes. :)
Comments continued :
Name : Edgar Clark Jr.
City : San Diego
State : CA
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : EdandMaeClark@cs.com
Comments : I wish to know about Melungeons who lived
in Glade Spring, Washington County VA during my growing up
there during the depression, but left at fifteen years of
age to join the Armed forces to retire, and not too return
except for rare visits. I was not awa
Comments continued :
Name : Nancy Moran
City : Waterville
State : Maine
Country : U.S.A.
Home page :
Email address : nangirl63@yahoo.com
Comments : Have these surnames on family
tree-PYE,PIKE, DE LACY,RAINEY,VER HEY-should anyone be
interested in other family tree info
Comments continued :
Name : Linnan
City : Lebanon
State : Virginia
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : linnan76@yahoo.com
Comments : Both my mother and father are Mullins. As
far as I know, my mothers fathers family descended from
France, but her mother is a Jones/Harman/Vance, and we feel
this may be of Welsh ancestry. However, my greatgrandfather
is said to be 1/2 Cherokee. My father
Comments continued :
Name : June Goins
City : Kingsport
State : Tennessee
Country : United States
Home page : ??
Email address : cookie19512000@hotmail.com
Comments : Searching for information on the connection
of all Goins-Hand ancestory. If any information, e-mail
cookie19512000@hotmail.com.
Comments continued :
Name : James Caudill
City : Nashville
State : TN
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : jimcaudill@comcast.net
Comments : Hi! A Melungeon native of Letcher Co. KY,
here. Last name formerly Caudillo Hope to attend the
convention next mo. in Kingsport TN
Comments continued :
Name : Ingred
City : Toronto
State : Ontario
Country : Canada
Home page :
Email address : ingred42@hotmail.com
Comments : I found your site, while trying to find
some information about my family who are originally from
Barbados on both sides. My mothers family are Millers, her
grandfather was from white and from Scotland and her great
grandmother was of mixed race (possibly
Comments continued :
Name : Frances
City :
State : Nebraska
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : hskrzfan2002@yahoo.com
Comments : Hello. I was looking thru your pages and
find that you are interested in descendants of William
Cantrell. Our family of Cantrells descend directly from this
family. You left no contact info so I do not know how to get
in touch. Thank you.
Comments continued :
Name : William A. Pennea Jr.
City : Yorktown Heights
State : ny
Country : United States
Home page :
Email address : Billp10598@verizon.net
Comments : I am curious about Rebecca Penneas point of
origin before she got to Jamaica
Comments continued :
Name : Michele Vetula
City : Bradenton
State : Florida
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : TDClymer@msn.com
Comments : I was very curious about Etalka Vetula Good
Grimwood. I have not been able to trace the origin of my
last name Vetula. I am only one of 10 listed in the U.S.
phone book listings. Wondering how you discovered that
Vetula was Romano Gothic and meant little
Comments continued : Please help! I have been
re-searching my family history for years but can only trace
my family back a few generations. The name Vetula has been a
real Challenge.
Name : anita greene
City : mooresburg
State : tn
Country : usa
Home page : www.murasakikobudo.com
Email address : anitarussell914@charter.net
Comments : my father owned a junk yard on short/clinch
mountain and a melungeon family visited us once a week for
repair supplies...there was a young man named Ricky maybe 15
and i was 12. that i was totally in love with...he was the
most beautiful human i had ever
Comments continued : if ricky is out there and
remembers this..........id love to hear from you
Name : anita greene
City : mooresburg
State : tn
Country : usa
Home page : www.murasakikobudo.com
Email address : anitarussell914@charter.net
Comments : my father owned a junk yard on short/clinch
mtn and a melungeon family visited us once a week for repair
supplies...there was a young man named ricky maybe 15 and i
was 12. that i was tottaly in love with...he was the most
beautiful human i had ever seen.
Comments continued :
Name : de la Penha
City : Amstelveen
State :
Country : Holland
Home page : home01.wxs.nl/~penha001/
Email address : david.h.de.la.penha@wxs.nl
Comments : I am looking for the familyname of VIEIJRA
and LOPES CARDOZO, for the Family TREE
Comments continued :
Name : David L. Kent
City : Austin
State : Texas
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : chirologe@hotmail.com
Comments : As the author of Barbados and America
(1980), I read with an appreciative eye Lila Salazars
informative article on the Melungeon culture of Barbados and
Appalachia. As she implies, economics drove the formation of
this culture and its many manifestations.
Comments continued :
Name : Condro
City : Lyon
State : Rhone
Country : France
Home page :
Email address : a_rechle@hotmail.com
Comments : Dear Sir, I found my name on your list with
Jno Condro May I ask You to give me information about his
orgin.... Thank You Regards From France J Condro
Comments continued :
Name : Wendy Pryor Ainsworth
City : Wimberley
State : Texas
Country : Hays
Home page :
Email address : wendy_ainsworth@yahoo.com
Comments : My grandfather, born in 1900 was from
Tennessee. Floyd Johnnie Pryor. I think that he must have
been melungeon. He had blue eyes, black hair. Thanks for all
of the great info. I enjoy reading the history.
Comments continued :
Name : anita wright
City : akron
State : ohio
Country : summit
Home page :
Email address : ivy1223@sbcglobal.net
Comments : My mother was a baber her father is from
gallipolis oh (portsmith ) he lived in ashland kentucky with
his mother arti who had three children one whom is of white
race the other two are just fair compleded. richard who is
of mixed stayed with theire grand
Comments continued : could there be any connection to
our baber family ive been looking for so long since my
mothers murder. the people i rember are lyde ,frances,
blanche, essemae bolden/jackson one of those names where her
last name the other a cousin im told since i didn k
Name : casto
City : medford
State : oregon
Country : united states
Home page :
Email address : sryker@ai5.net
Comments : I am of the long line of Casto decendents
from David D, Casto of West Virgina going all the way back
to Azariah Casto. very interested in the possibility of
serphardic origen.
Comments continued : I have a diffrent name now other
than Casto because I am a female my first name is Mary
Name : Mary Belyea
City : Holland Landing
State : Ontario
Country : Canada
Home page :
Email address : marybelyea@rogers.com
Comments : I am researching family names that may be
Melungeon - May, Francis, Cox, Sexton, Martin, Adams,
Lowery, Patrick
Comments continued :
Name : Holly Spry(Harmon)
City : Kankakee
State : IL
Country : US
Home page :
Email address : hollyspry@hotmail.com
Comments :
Comments continued :
Name : Brenda
City : Cleveland
State : Ohio
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : byork@adelphia.net
Comments : I am looking for relatives and information
regarding anyone named TYNES.
Comments continued :
Name : Stephanie
City : Pittsburgh
State : PA
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : konwakeri@msn.com
Comments : Thanks for all your efforts in finding my
heritage. I will pass on everything you find to my children
and grandchildren! Love you! xoxoxox
Comments continued :
Name : virginia martin
City : Glen allen
State : VA
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : vamoonmtn@aol.com
Comments : PLease add my name to the mailing list.
Thanks. I would like to know where you got the Baber cenus
records for 16ll and 1612. Thanks, Virginia
Comments continued :
Name : Ernest Shelton
City : Walbridge
State : Oh
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : SheltonErnst@aol.com
Comments : i am looking for information on Pimberton
Taylor from Hancock Co Tn had a daughter Julie that married
Bengiman Lee in Tn or Whitley co ky Pemberton Taylor Tn
earley
Comments continued : EIGHT NUNDREDS JULIEY IN LATE
EIGHTTEEN RDS THANKS
Name : Cherokee Council of America
City : Box 411302, Charlotte
State : NC
Country : USA
Home page : http://www.cherokeecouncilofamerica.com
Email address : noemail@duetohackerss.com
Comments : Learn more about Powhatans, Saponi,
Catawba, Creeks, Shawnee, Delaware, Waxhaw, Sugaw, Kaw, and
others like Kentucky Cherokee Chief Red Bird Brock Sizemore
and Chief Doublehead and other signers of the Chickasaw,
Cherokee 1806 - Washington DC, Dearborn
Comments continued :
Name : Barbara Lou Townsend
City : Los Angeles
State : CA
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : barbroots3@yahoo.com
Comments : Thank you for the work you are doing.
Comments continued : Im experiencing some confusion on
testing for Jewish geneology...thanks for posting the
familytreedna project link. Additional clarification online
here would be helpful to a lot of people. A lot of people,
female, researching on their own, and would like
Name : Mabel viveros
City : Terre Haute
State : IN
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : Cissymabel@aol.com
Comments : All this research on melungeons is awesome.
I read some on it almost everyday. I have had trouble
finding both sides of my family but I have found thomas Fox
(mothers maiden name and Hodges a direct lineage of my
ggrandmothers side. Thanks for all your de
Comments continued :
Name : Mabel viveros
City : Terre Haute
State : IN
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : Cissymabel@aol.com
Comments : All this research on melungeons is awesome.
I read some on it almost everyday. I have had trouble
finding both sides of my family but I have found thomas Fox
(mothers maiden name and Hodges a direct lineage of my
ggrandmothers side. Thanks for all your de
Comments continued :
Name : Rebecca Kauf
City : Shreve
State : OH
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : MaraWalker63@yahoo.com
Comments : Wow! I didnt know this site existed. My
aunt told me about the Melungeons several years ago and she
had spoken with someone there one time and said that our
family was most likely of this descent. My mothers maiden
name is Bowlin. If you could please send
Comments continued :
Name : esther shouse
City : holly
State : mi
Country : usa
Home page :
Email address : shouse4house@kw.com
Comments : I am a native of Breathitt Co., Ky.My
maiden name is Landsaw.I have been told all my life that I
look Indian and/or middle eastern.My mother is a neace from
Lost Creek, Ky.She has many features of the Melungeon
tribe.My father now deceased looked very Sco
Comments continued : My family suffers from several of
the diseases and traits that this hertiage has. I would like
also to know how to give a dna sample for testing.
Name : esther shouse
City : holly
State : mi
Country : usa
Home page :
Email address : shouse4house@kw.com
Comments : I am a native of Breathitt Co., Ky.My
maiden name is Landsaw.I have been told all my life that I
look Indian and/or middle eastern.My mother is a neace from
Lost Creek, Ky.She has many features of the Melungeon
tribe.My father now deceased looked very Sco
Comments continued : My family suffers from several of
the diseases and traits that this hertiage has. I would like
also to know how to give a dna sample for testing.
Name : lonnie e lawson
City : lafollette
State : tn
Country : usa
Home page :
Email address : wildman@ccdi.net
Comments :
Comments continued :
Name : Sue Sanderson
City : McKinney
State : Texas
Country : Collin
Home page :
Email address : suesanderson1@comcast.net
Comments : My father, Bob Goins, and I have attended
the Goins family meeting in Nashville several years ago and
started us on a fascinating trip through Melungeon history.
We enjoy keeping up with new findings and researching our
family name.
Revised September 07, 2007