Mar 8, 2021 · The latest DNA study limited participants to those whose families were called Melungeon in the historical records of the 1800s and early 1900s in and around Tennessee’s …

Sep 12, 2011 · They were the Melungeon families of SE Kentucky (Knox, Whitley, Bell (including Pine Mtn.) and Harlan counties), and 9f east TN particularly Campbell and Claiborne County. …

Melungeon (/ m ə ˈ l ʌ n dʒ ən / mə-LUN-jən) (sometimes also spelled Malungean, Melangean, Melungean, Melungin [3]) was a slur [4] historically applied to individuals and families of mixed …

Jan 25, 2024 · Born in 1809 in Hardin County, Kentucky to parents of humble means, speculation suggests Lincoln’s ancestors may have been Melungeon, a racial mixture including European, …

The Carmel Indians (pronounced Car'-mul) are a group of Melungeons who lived in Magoffin County, Kentucky and moved to Highland County, Ohio. Dr. Edward Price observed that the …

Jan 10, 1998 · Explores the various theories about the origins of the Melungeons, an Appalachian ethnic group of mixed ancestry whose forebears arrived in the New World at the time of the …

Jan 24, 2021 · Within the Appalachian Mountains, from the mountainous regions of Tennessee and Virginia, to parts of Kentucky, there has traditionally been a group of people known as the …

Sometimes called the “Lost Tribe of Appalachia,” the Melungeons are people of mixed ethnicity who claim varying degrees of Portuguese, Turkish, Moorish, Arabic, Jewish, American Indian …

Jul 29, 2012 · Brent Kennedy convinced many people they descended from Turkish sailors and named people like Elivs Presley as possbile Melungeons which is still being published today. …

Feb 7, 2014 · Like the waters of the Cumberland Gap, where neighboring streams weave through Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia to meet among the rolling crests of the Appalachian …