Dave, Since I sent the original message to the list, will answer here as well. At this point, I have nothing beyond Sarah or Julie J FANNIN's name, so would sure be happy to hear anything the rest of you might be able to share. The known Melungeons I referred to were indeed the Brown family of [mostly] Morgan and Magoffin counties - I go back to Elijah Brown and Alcey Coffee of Morgan County. And, most of the information I have on the family comes from Patricia Baldwin in Denver, KY and Dave Auxier, author of "The Auxier Family". My mother grew up in the little Washington town where they filmed the TV show, "Northern Exposure" and I've spent most of my life near San Francisco ... and with Mother suffering from psychogenic amnesia up until the time of her marriage to our father, my sister and I learned almost nothing about our ancestors or any living relatives. Mother died earlier this month at 86, and took with her any clues to her family we might have had firsthand. For some reason, she and other family members refused to even acknowledge each other's existance to anyone outside themselves ... even husbands and children. For fifty some years, we've been denied any "family" on our mother's side .... and the older we get, the more deeply we feel that lack. There were deep dark secrets in that family - as there probably are in most everyone's - but we've learned of a few and they were doozies! But, for better or worse, we do want to find our Kentucky roots. I suspect much of the secrecy was to hide anything that might lead others to realize our family wasn't strictly WASP. I was told by one Greenup native that her mother still refers to some people who might be my relatives as "those dirty Nichols up the hollow..." She also described them as "Mulligans" and i suspect that was her way of saying Melungeon, rather than suggesting they were Irish in ancestry. Have to chuckle at the idea of my mother's family attempting to hide any Portuguese roots, however far removed they might be. Here in California, w live in a farming and ranching area where most ALL our neighors are no more than second generation Portuguese ... and on seeing my mother when she visited, most were sure she must be related ... she looked so much like THEIR mothers ! So, will be happy to share what I have with any of you ..... the particular surnames I do know now in my family include STANLEY, MARTIN, NICHOLLS, PRATHER/PRATER, STEVENS/STEPHENS, BROWN, COFFEE/COFFEY or FANNIN. Locations are mostly in Greenup, Morgan or Magoffin counties, Kentucky, Scioto County, OH or Kanawha County, West Virginia... and Antrim or Charlevoix counties in Michigan. Jeannie Vaughan PO Box 365 Byron, CA 94514-0365 >The Sarah or Julie J. FANNIN who married Alford T. BROWN >mentioned in your note was the niece of my gr gr grandmother >Rebecca Fannin. Most of us who have ancestors from eastern KY >and sw VA have heard periodic family recollections indicating >Indian, or now a days, Melungeon, ancestors. But I don't recall >mention of this in the Fannin family. When you said "that her family >was predominantly Melungeon and Lumbee Indian", were you referring >to the Fannin family? Or were you referring to the Brown or Nichols >family? > >-- >Dave Dollard >e-mail: dollard@cdmnet.com or dollard@primary.net >Dollard Family Genealogy Page: http://www3.primary.net/~dollard/ > > > _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]