In a message dated 9/12/00 10:58:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time, HAWKL35@aol.com writes: << I can't help but wonder if this is the case with the Melungeons I wonder who will come forward and say My grandmother said I was a melungeon any one over 30 or 40 and can back it up, and understand I am not Putting down these people at all I was just Worndering thats all, >> Alece, You make a very good point here. And I am sure many of them are wondering as well. Have you heard conversations on the M-list, lately. Many NA are popping into the scope of their documented websites and conversations. Why, I think that even those who have been researching it, for awhile now are, viewing new points. I can remember when there were no NA on that list. But they sure seem to be there now. Maybe they are looking at the Melungeons as we are the Black Dutch?Maybe they are finally looking for that deep and mysterious aunt or uncle who looked dark? Take a look at the areas they say Melungeon come from. Well now, ask yourself what do these areas have in common?What group or type of folks lived in these areas?Were they the back woods people, who wanted no contact from outsiders? Were they Coal miners, who had a life of hell, in the mines?Where they KKK? Where they Moonshiners? Were they just good ole boys, who would kick your butt and take names later?Are they southern whites in a White Baptist South, who had to cover there mixed blood lines as well? Because if that is the case, then some of the above would be the very reason, they would keep the secret. In the South, it did not matter how mixed you were. If you were mixed, you were not white.Remember, one drop of mixed blood, could change you forever, in many peoples eyes.I believe that many Mulutto's did not want to leave the South. And those same Muluttos married Southerners. And I bet that some got away with the secret. I bet others, may have married a white and could have had a dark baby born. Well, what would happen then? Would the husband kill the White ( mulutto) mother of his child? Or would love prevail. and the secrets start? Bright Star