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Melungeon Heritage Association's Blog – January 2012 Archive (3)
Indians of North Florida-- Sewell and Hill
Every year it seems a new window opens into the relationships among mixed ancestry groups of the southern and eastern United States. In 2007 when I first met MHA officers in Richmond at the annual conference of NGS, (the National Genealogical Society) they were joined at the conference booth by…
ContinueAdded by Melungeon Heritage Association on January 21, 2012 at 2:00am — No Comments
Guidelines on blogs, forums, and events notices
Welcome to the MHA Ning community. We are still exploring features of the site, but the three main features already in use require some explanation:
1. Blogs. Each member is welcome to post genealogical and historical information related to Melungeons, including documents, photos, charts, etc.; the only requirement is to keep the focus on families and communities with known or suspected mixed ancestry, and to respect copyright of published material. “Related to Melungeons” includes…
ContinueAdded by Melungeon Heritage Association on January 11, 2012 at 11:00am — No Comments
Washed in the Blood review by K. Paul Johnson
As a lifelong Virginian and avid reader, I have never enjoyed a book about Virginia history with the scope and passion of Lisa Alther’s new novel Washed in the Blood. Author of five bestselling novels before writing her first nonfiction book in 2007, Alther returns to fiction with a multigenerational family saga set primarily in the mountains along the Virginia/North Carolina/Tennessee border.
Opening in 1567 with the arrival in the New World of Diego Martin, a hog drover from…
ContinueAdded by Melungeon Heritage Association on January 1, 2012 at 5:58pm — No Comments
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- Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South by Melissa Schrift published today
- Top ten states in Google searches for `Melungeon'
- NYU graduate student in search of recipes from Melungeon communities and families
- MHA board consultant Dr. Arwin Smallwood's new article, "A History Long Forgotten"
- 2002 and 2010 DNA studies confirmed tri-racial roots of Melungeons
- 16th Union Report
- "Plecker list" of Virginia mixed-ancestry surnames
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- Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South by Melissa Schrift published today
- DNA Study seeks origin of Appalachia's Melungeons
- 2002 and 2010 DNA studies confirmed tri-racial roots of Melungeons
- Top ten states in Google searches for `Melungeon'
- NYU graduate student in search of recipes from Melungeon communities and families
- "Plecker list" of Virginia mixed-ancestry surnames
- MHA board consultant Dr. Arwin Smallwood's new article, "A History Long Forgotten"
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