In a message dated 9/19/99 9:51:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time, mary.gardner@juno.com writes: << It isn't easy for some folks to accept the tri racial or bi racial facts that apply to the Melungeon people. There were Melungeon people in the New Orleans area too. >> I know what you mean. I had to gulp a bit myself. I am pretty sure I have Lumbees in Robeson Co, NC. But one thing you may want to consider is that the Indian could have been Tuscarora. The Kizzias and probably Owen family have turned out to be Tuscarora. I think it is possible that Joel and David White were also from that tribe, may have been related to Kizzias before they came to Clay County, maybe even before they came to Pulaski County, Kentucky. This is where I am currently stuck.