Comments : I was watching Wierd U.S. and
realized I have a very prominent bump on the back of
my head. Could it be?
Comments continued :
Name : Ernest L. Trent
City : St.Albans
State : West Virginia
Country : usa
Home page :
Email address : mrjenglerocks@yahoo.com
Comments : My Family names
are,Adkins,Trent,Lovejoy,Black,Racer,Johnson,Stone,Thacker,McGee,Rice,Flora,Johnson,Beckett,Russell,Earlewine,and
Flora...which all come from,Cabell,Putnam,Logan,
Kanawha,Lincoln, Greenbrier and Pocohontas
Counties..in West Virgina..Ive be
Comments continued :
Name : Margo Elmer
City : Nampa
State : Idaho
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : chicken_1@htmail.com
Comments : Thank you for making this
information available.
Comments continued :
Name : Saundra Gayhart
City : Sanford
State : FL
Country : USA
Home page : bell south
Email address : aloehart@yahoo.com
Comments : Geneaological research brought me
to this sight. Surnames are Jones,Asher,
Hoskins,Sizemore,Blevins,Bowling,Vanover,Muncy,Stacy,Dixon,Gayhart/Gerhardt.
Health issues may be connected to Melungeon
heritage. Traced Vanover back to NC, NJ to Holland
in 1600s
Comments continued :
Name : Erol Kurt
City : Izmir
State : Izmir
Country : Turkey
Home page : http://35izmir.4t.com
Email address : Erol_kurt_492@hotmail.com
Comments : Well...Sweet Melungens, now its
known that you have Turkish DNA. GREAT... Here is my
humble web page which might keep you updated with
Turkey news... http://tchaber.20m.com We are proud
of you. Best regards, Erol Kurt PS : Turkish
National S
Comments continued :
Name : Robert Richards
City : Stanley
State : Wisconsin
Country : USA
Home page : www.msn.com
Email address : bobrichards47@hotmail.com
Comments : I have reason to believe I may be
of Melungeon descent. My dads family comes from the
region, and I have a number have the physical
characteristics of Melungeons.
Comments continued :
Name : Scott Keith Sharpe
City : Raleigh
State : North Carolina
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : sksharpe1@yahoo.com
Comments : My families name originally didnt
have the e at the end. My fathers doing. My fathers
family is related to Skaggs, Bryants, and Hopkins.
Mostly from the Western portions of Virginia, NC,
and WV. Also the eastern portions of Tenn and KY.
Comments continued : Old photos from the
family look very strikingly like those of some of
the melungeon family photos on this and other
websites. I would love to discover more about my
heritage and why I have a very pronounced bone ridge
on the back of my head.
Name : Mary Ann Hubbell
City : Logan
State : Utah
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : ole_crone@hotmail.com
Comments : Very interesting. However, I dont
think John Montour was exactly as described. In 1780
he participated with the kidnapping of the Gilbert
family - which was done by Indians supporting the
British. His Brother, Roland was also on the British
side. I guess
Comments continued :
Name : Michael Matlock
City : Monroe
State : North Carolina
Country : US
Home page :
Email address : mmatlock8@carolina.rr.com
Comments : I have the Anatolian Bump - does
that automatically make me Melungeon?
Comments continued :
Name : Daniel Paxton
City : Oberlin
State : Ohio
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : paxton@oberlin.net
Comments : Thanks for having such an
informative and interesting website!
Comments continued :
Name : Don Lawson
City : Huntingdon
State : Cambridgeshire
Country : UK
Home page :
Email address : donmappinginuk@yahoo.com
Comments : US Govt employee serving in
England. Ive been trying to confirm my Melungeon
Heritage for several years. This website has been
very helpful.
Comments continued :
Name : Charles Fregeau
City : Kankakee
State : Illinois
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : n5hsr@sprynet.com
Comments : I am decended from John Bond (1695)
of Beaufort County, NC. His grandson, Col John Bond
(1749) settled in Mississippi Territory around the
time the land now connecting Mississippi to the Gulf
of Mexico became part of the US.
Comments continued : Supposedly somehow I am
at least, in part, Choctaw Indian. I am trying to
figure out the links. There are MANY John Bonds,
however, and its tough making it clear who was
related to whom. Im here to see if I can clarify any
of this.
Name : Ron Hanks
City : Meridian
State : Idaho
Country : Ada
Home page :
Email address : beckyhanks0912@msn.com
Comments :
Comments continued :
Name : Erik Bergman
City : Vancouver
State : Washington
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : thebergmans@peoplepc.com
Comments : Grandfather comes from Appalacian
Mtns. Said I was decended from Champlain. He is long
deceased. I have skull ridge, bump on back of head,
darker skin than rest of family.
Comments continued :
Name : jan phillips castleberry
City : valdosta
State : georgia
Country : usa
Home page :
Email address : janipooh_29@yahoo.com
Comments : After viewing program on Weird
History,I became VERY interested as I have always
been curious about the very deep indention on the
base if my cranium (almost a hole) It freaks people
out when I let them see or feel it..I thought that I
was deformed...so I
Comments continued :
Name : Summer Hopkins-Crabtree
City : Indianapolis
State : Indiana
Country : United States
Home page :
Email address : gratefullmom@hotmail.com
Comments : I am very interested in finding
more out about these people. My father was born and
raised in Mulberry Gap TN. I would be very
interested in giving a DNA sample. I watched a
program about this on the History Channel and Iwas
feeling the back of my head fo
Comments continued :
Name : Stephen J. Anton
City : Saint Johns
State : AZ
Country : USA
Home page : none
Email address : antongenealogy@frontiernet.net
Comments : extremely interested in this, Ive
had some questions about some of my ancestry from
this area of the country and just maybe...
Comments continued :
Name : Timexx Nasty
City : Cape Girardeau
State : Mo
Country : USA
Home page : www.drivinrain.net
Email address : timexx_nasty@yahoo.com
Comments : Hey I saw this on TV last night.
First time I had heard of this. I am Cherokee Indian
and I have a lot of kin for your part of the world.
Mom says we are also Melungeon. Glad to see the
site. Ill read more!
Comments continued : Check us out at
www.drivinrain.net www.cherokeetrails.net
Name : Kevin Barrett
City : Salisbury
State : MD
Country : United States
Home page :
Email address : choochoorr@comcast.net
Comments : Hello I am very curios and would
like to find some answers if possible I have the
shovel teeth and a small lump on the back of my head
i look african american my grandmother was part
blackfoot indian from North Carolina as far as i
know her maiden name wa
Comments continued :
Name : Kimberly Martin
City : Santee
State : Ca.
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : Meneldil@earthlink.net
Comments : I am so thankful that you have this
site available. I was watching a new show called
Weird USA on the History Channel. They did a bit on
their show about Melungeon people and described
certain characteristics including the tell tale bump
on the back of th
Comments continued :
Name : Kenneth Fields
City : Tishomingo
State : Oklahoma
Country : Johnston
Home page :
Email address : ken_fields1@sbcglobal.net
Comments : I am a decendant of Ludovic Grant.
His daughter married my gggg-grandfather Richard
Fields.
Comments continued :
Name : sheila mullins
City : stanford
State : KY
Country : usa
Home page :
Email address : Jubal16@aol.com
Comments : Interested in learning more about
the Melungeons
Comments continued :
Name : Michelle Looney
City : Harrodsburg
State : KY
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : LoonUSA1@msn.com
Comments : I have certainly enjoyed your site.
I am direct descendant of Robert Looney, Sr. of
Virginia and have many Melungeon ancestral names.
Thank you for all that youve done. Regards, Michelle
Comments continued :
Name : Fatih
City : Adana
State :
Country : Turkey
Home page :
http://goturkey.kulturturizm.gov.tr
Email address : badras01@yahoo.com
Comments : If you listen the deep of your
hart, you will find the truth and you will be very
happy to call yourself a Turk... The Melungeon :
Meluncan The Turks know that The Melungeons are
Turks as well...
Comments continued : U.S.A. & Turkey for
forever
Name : Tom
City : Costa
State : California
Country : USA
Home page : www.insurancefusion.com
Email address : costatlc@yahoo.com
Comments : In reading James Quills History of
the Azores Islands I came across a reference to
Melungeons. They were described as voyagers from
Flanders in route to the Azores island of Terceira.
Comments continued : Also, the word Melungeon
translates roughly into shipmate or commarade in
Portuguese.
Name : W. SUSAN DAWSON
City : COLUMBIA
State : TN
Country : MAURY
Home page :
Email address : DAWSONSUSAN@BELLSOUTH.NET
Comments : HI: I HAVE MOVED TO A NEW ADDRESS
AND NO LONGER RECEIVE ANY NEWSLETTERS I WOULD VERY
MUCH LIKE TO HAVE ANY AND ALL INFORMATION SENT TO ME
AT: 3902 CAMPBELLSVILLE PIKE COLUMBIA, TN 38401 ALSO
I HAVE MISPLACE JOHNNIE RAYES PHONE 3 COULD SOMEONE
SEN
Comments continued :
Name : James d. Meriwether
City : cleveland
State : OHIO
Country : U S A
Home page :
Email address : jmeriwether3@aol.com
Comments :
Comments continued :
Name : Carl Phillips
City : Kokomo
State : Indiana
Country : u.s.a.
Home page : netscape
Email address : carlbob77@netscape.net
Comments : Grandfather was Loyd Mullins.
G.mother Ethyl{Thomas}Mullins on my moms side from
Virginia.My father was also from Virginia.
Comments continued :
Name :
City :
State :
Country : TURKEY
Home page :
Email address :
Comments : turkish and melungos friends,
Comments continued :
Name : Debbie
City : Topeka
State : KS
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address :
Comments : I really like reading this type of
history. The beginning portion of this article is
confusing, though. Are you talking about Johnston
City or Johnson City? They seem to be used
interchangeably. Johnson City is in Washington
County, TN - not Hancock Count
Comments continued :
Name : Belle Shepherd
City : North Las Vegas
State : Nevada
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : belleshep@cox.net
Comments : I am related to the Hanks family.
Martha Ann Hanks married Stephen Pinckney Haynie
from Virginia. My Shepherd/Shepard/Shepperd folks
lived in Southern Ohio, Northeastern Kentucky. My
sons in-laws have the names of Barker and Sexton. I
have seen these n
Comments continued : Havent found much about
his ancestors who lived around Foster, Bracken Co.
Kentucky. Belle Shepherd belleshep@cox.net
Name : yates
City :
State : Maryland
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address :
Comments : This is complete speculation, WITH
NO FOOTNOTES, OR EVEN SLIGHT EVIDENCE, passed off as
fact. You should be ashamed. I think you need to
accept being indian!
Comments continued :
Name : La Sonna Hayes
City : Lakeworth
State : Florida
Country : usa
Home page :
Email address : choctawexpress@aol.com
Comments : I am of the Cooper family: My
father was Robert Lee Phillips-Hayes (Hayes court
ordered name change) His mother was Jacqueline
Annette Cooper (born with the name of Anna/Annie
Bell Cooper) she was sent to the Prior orphanage in
Prior,Ok (by her father Au
Comments continued : You know where the cooper
family goes from there. Keep up the Great Work!!
Please correct any mistakes I may have made from
Stephens parent on. I have typed this from memory
and did not pull out the paper work . So, I could
made a mistake after Step
Name : Carl Phillips
City : Kokomo
State : Indiana
Country : United States
Home page : netscape
Email address : carlbob77@netscape.net
Comments : My mothers maiden name was Mullins
Floyd Mullins was my grand fathers name.
Comments continued :
Name : Catherine Russell Davidson
City : Edmond
State : Oklahoma
Country : U. S. A.
Home page :
Email address : Katydid401@cox.net
Comments : Brent & Wayne were at the 1st
Redbone Heritage Conference held in Alexandria LA
23-26 June, 2005. They were great. So much can be
learned from these two great genealogists/human
beings. Thank you for being with us and providing
guidance as we walk down t
Comments continued :
Name : Brandi Higgs
City : Enterprise
State : Alabama
Country : USA
Home page : yahoo
Email address : Austynsmommy2000@yahoo.com
Comments : Just recently discovered your site
as I am researching my possible melungeon
tie/connection. My GGG-Grandmother was a Dark, and
her family was from Kentucky. Had always heard that
I was Indian and Black Dutch. Almost positive now
that her family was melun
Comments continued :
Name : Prof. Joel Fletcher
City : Ste. Foy
State : Quebec
Country : Canada
Home page :
Email address : joey77790224@yahoo.com
Comments : From what I have read, there seems
to be a great deal of confusion about who is who and
what is what? Your problem as a people is you are
calling yourselve what all native american do. Names
given to you by other people. My grandmother was
Rappahannock fr
Comments continued :
Name : Georgia Espino
City : Hinesville
State : GA
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : gespino@coastalnow.net
Comments : Why is this county in NC part of
your site? What is the connection? I have my
grandmothers family on this site (Adams). I was born
in Beaufort Co. My grandfather was also an Adams,
from Southampton County, Virginia.
Comments continued : Please email me. I want
to search for clues about my family. My father died
when I was 7, his parents died when he was young,
and his 3 brothers also died young.
Name : Levent Ozturk
City : Istanbul
State :
Country : Turkey
Home page :
Email address :
Comments : Hi MELUNGEONs
Comments continued : I am a Turk from
Istanbul. With DNA tests your profiles look like
ours. I feel that you are like our people and Allah
will protect you.
Name : Kaan
City : Ankara
State :
Country : Turkey
Home page :
Email address : kaanmetu@gmail.com
Comments : Ýt is very intersting so we are
relatives :)
Comments continued :
Name : Bev Decker
City : Jasper
State : Tennessee
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : bevjerrydeck@yahoo.com
Comments : I am a direct descendant of
Benjamin Adkins, grandmother was Calvins daughter.
Comments continued :
Name : Carolyn Lewis
City : Weaver
State : AL
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : csfish_197@hotmail.com
Comments : Vardi Collins decendant Great web
page
Comments continued :
Name : henry mullins
City : martin
State : ky
Country : usa
Home page :
Email address : bones10141649@yahoo.com
Comments : hello im henry mullins from east ky
floyd county i believe im of melungeon descent my
great grand father and grand father are from wise
va. there name are john beaner mullins and hampton
foster mullins any information on them will be
appriciated thank you
Comments continued :
Name : Suzanne Boivin Sommerville
City : St. Clair Shores
State : MI
Country :
Home page :
Email address : suesommerville@aol.com
Comments : I invite the author of the article
on John Montour (or anyone else who has read it) to
visit Roots, Racines, the web site of Norm
Leveillee, and to read my series of articles on the
Couc / Montour family of New France, New York, and
Pennsylvania, beginnin
Comments continued :
Name : Jama
City : Buena Vista
State : Georgia
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : jamab1@starband.net
Comments : I am looking for an ancestor who
was named Elizabeth Emaline(Wilson)(b)abt.1832 she
was supose to have come from Sand mountain and who
married a Samuel Gay and moved to Blount County and
McMinn County Tennessee the remainder of her life. I
would like any
Comments continued : More notes on Elizabeth
Emaline Wilson.. she rode side saddle, she was red
haired and spoke with a Gaylic Scott-Irish accent.
She may have had some doctors in her family because
she sent her son to medical school and he was the
first born. She named him R
Name : Grover Mason Collins
City : Lawrenceburg
State : Ky
Country : USA
Home page :
Email address : gmc011@bellsouth.net
Comments : my home is floyd co. ky. my family
came from east tenn. we are tall dark and pot marked
faced. all have lung problems. I feel that we are
truley mellungeons. I have a little gen. but cannot
find much
Comments continued : my family was all from
knot and perry co. ky. Lacky, knot co. ky.
Name : abdullah erol
City : ankara
State :
Country : turkey
Home page : http://blogs.cjb. net/yeminli
Email address : yeminlitercuman@gmail.com
Comments : armenian manifesto
http://blogs.cjb.net/yeminli
Comments continued : armenian manifesto
http://blogs.cjb.net/yeminli
Name : Erol Kurt
City : Izmir
State : TR
Country : Turkey
Home page : http://4me.cjb.net
Email address : Erol355@hotmail.com
Comments : Sweet Melungeons, Hellos from Izmir
/ Turkey...enjoy this--- http://my1.8m.net --- and
send your friends please. All the best.. Erol Kurt
