HELLO CAMPBELL COUSINS? PLEASE WHO OF OUR EXPERENCED RESEACHERS IS Willing to step foward a declare that our Ancestor- GRANNY CATTY UNK, had no connection, in any shape or form to this segament of the asembly of immagrants, I have not seen any indication of there being a connection, & or not being a Connection, it has been 290 years since GRANNY CATTY UNK apeard on the sehen, ??? IS THIS ROUTE A POIABILITY??, JUST ASKIING, who has any proof <PRO OR CON??? MMIND TTHE CAMBELL FAMILY <CUZ A T< Is not saying, I am sincerely ASKING?? PLEASE REMEMBER It is imposoable to ManipulATE The purifycation of our ANCESTRY. SO WHO HAS PROOF OF WHAT? JUST ASKING?? CUZ AT _The Portuguese_ (http://the-melungeons.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-portuguese.html) The Portuguese The Portuguese ancestry of the Melungeons took a 'big hit' this past April when the paper Melungeons, A Multiethnic Population by Roberta J. Estes, Jack H. Goins, Penny Ferguson, Janet Lewis Crain, was published. It wasn't so much what they wrote but what they didn't write. They quoted? James Mooney In 1902, James Mooney addressed the issue of Portuguese oral history: "Wherever these people are found, there always will be the traveler or investigator passing through their region, who will encounter their tradition of Portuguese descent, and in view of their ignorance, will wonder how these people ever came to know of the nation of Portugal.”[63] What James Mooney actually wrote was; "Wherever these people are found there also will the traveler or investigator passing through their region encounter the tradition of Portuguese blood or descent, and many have often wondered how these people came to have such a tradition or, in view of their ignorance, how they came to even know of the name of Portugal or the Portuguese." The next sentence of paragraph two which they completely omitted: "The explanation is, however, far simpler than one might imagine. In the first place, the Portuguese have always been a seagoing people, and according to Mr. Mooney, who has looked up the subject, the early records of Virginia and the Carolinas contain notices of Portuguese ships having gone to wreck on the coasts of these States and of the crews settling down and marrying in with Indians and mulattoes." Mooney 'addressed' the oral history of the Portuguese ancestry. It certainly seems to me the way I read this that he explained there was no reason to doubt their oral history. The Portuguese were a seagoing people, and apparently there are documented records in Virginia and the Carolinas of Portuguese shipwrecks and the crews intermixing with the Natives. So why did these four authors choose to leave out this most important revelation by James Mooney? Why is a quote not a "quote?" This paper uses Virginia DeMarce as a source twenty one times but you will not find this quote included either.... but then again I don't think they were attempting to prove the Melungeon families may have been telling the truth about their heritage. Virginia Easley DeMarce Looking at Legends-Lumbee and Melungeon: Applied genealogy and the Origins of Tri-racial Isolate Settlements, National Genealogical Society Quarterly 81 (March 1993): 24-45. Page 37 "The fact that the Portuguese were noted seafarers for centuries. Portuguese laborers--particularly sailors, fisherman, and tradesmen such as net menders and sail menders--were common in towns and harbors throughout the western world, including England and her colonies; and English ships used some Portuguese sailors. In early America, references to them appear in colonial records from New France [Canada] to New England, to the Gulf. There is no reason to doubt that they also sailed into Virginia's ports, and their extensive contact with the English shipping trade might well explain their apparently rapid acquisition of the English language and their quick acculturation in Virginia." Documented Sources The authors of this paper writes there is one documented source as a possible link to the Melungeons Portuguese ancestry. The men who came with Juan Pardo. "One possible documented source of Portuguese ancestry may be from Juan Pardo’s men who were abandoned at various forts in present day North Carolina, one perhaps as far north and west as Morgantown, North Carolina.[206] Some of Pardo's men may have been Portuguese. These men, if they survived, would have had to have assimilated into the Native population and have taken Native wives, as there were no European women available in 1566. However, the core Melungeon family group is not originally found in western North Carolina, but in eastern Virginia."