Tommy: Next check for Claude's obit in the newspaper. Tom Dezern ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tommy Hunt" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 8:37 AM Subject: Re: [NCDOGS] D-OGS Meeting Reminder, Wednesday, 7 November 2007,"Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree - The Search for MyMelungeon Ancestors" > Paul , My name is Tommy Hunt and I live in Durham . I have just joined the > Durham-Oragne Gen. Society. > I need some help and ideas and do not know who to call on . The Problem; > I have checked the Census Report for 1900 and found my father , Clarence > Marvin Hunt , age 3. His older sister is also there age 7. There is also > an > older brother , age 10 named Claude. It clearly list him as a son of my > Grandmother. I had never heard of Claude from my father or any of his > brothers or sisters. My Grandmother never mentioned him . I checked the > 1910 > census , he was not there . He either died or left home . If he had left > home I am sure someone would have mentioned him . I have checked the > death > records in Durham County and they only start at 1913. He is not there. I > have checked the cemetaries , not there. Can anyone give me any other > ideas > as to how I can find what happened the this person. ? By the way , the > cencus recorder at that time listed my Grandfather as R.M. Hunt not Robert > Lee Hunt as it should have been listed. It also listed my Grandmother as > Maggie instead of Margaret. I think he was in a big hurry to go to lunch. > Many thanks , Tommy Hunt , [email protected] Original > Message ----- > From: "Paul Hollinghurst" <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 11:24 PM > Subject: [NCDOGS] D-OGS Meeting Reminder, Wednesday, 7 November 2007, > "Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree - The Search for My Melungeon > Ancestors" > > >> Wednesday, 7 November 2007 -- D-OGS Meeting >> >> TOPIC: "Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree - The Search for My > Melungeon >> Ancestors" >> >> Speaker: Lisa Alther >> >> Lisa Alther, the author of several books, just published her first >> non-fiction book "Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree - The Search for > My >> Melungeon Ancestors". Her story begins with her childhood and involved >> travels through the South and to several countries in search of the truth > of >> her origins, including a DNA test to confirm her suspicions. Lisa finds >> answers about her origins but many mysteries remain. >> >> An extremely provocative element in Alther's search revolves around >> boogie-man stories from childhood about Melungeons. She heard they had >> six >> fingers on each hand. As a child, she didn't know if this was true, or if >> Melungeons existed. Haunted by this mystery, she began trying to learn >> all >> she could and met a man in southwest Virginia who, indeed, was born with > six >> fingers on each hand who showed her scars from surgery to remove the >> sixth >> finger; he turned out to be a distant cousin of hers. >> >> As Alther says, "Conflicting origin of stories for the Melungeons abound. >> They're said to be descended from Indians who mated with early Spanish >> explorers, or from the survivors of Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony on >> Roanoke Island, or from Portuguese sailors shipwrecked on the Carolina >> coast, or from African slaves who escaped into the mountains." Her >> newly-discovered cousin thought they had Turkish ancestry. After >> traveling >> the South and Turkey and other parts of the world for extensive research, >> Alther concludes she is Melungeon, especially after having a DNA test > which >> showed all her genetic make-up. >> >> D-OGS Meeting will be held on: >> Wednesday evening, 7 November 2007 at 7 p.m. >> Duke Homestead Visitor's Center >> 2828 Duke Homestead Road, Durham 27705 >> Phone: (919) 477-5498 >> One-half mile from I-85 and Guess Rd (Exit 175) >> Follow the brown historic site road signs. >> >> A Map! http://tinyurl.com/3mbuj >> Another Map! http://tinyurl.com/4gnkm >> ******************************** >> >> ************************* >> Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ >> Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ************************* > Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ > Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks , good idea. Tommy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Dezern" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 9:03 AM Subject: Re: [NCDOGS] D-OGS Meeting Reminder, Wednesday, 7 November 2007,"Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree - The Search for MyMelungeonAncestors" > Tommy: > Next check for Claude's obit in the newspaper. > Tom Dezern > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tommy Hunt" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 8:37 AM > Subject: Re: [NCDOGS] D-OGS Meeting Reminder, Wednesday, 7 November > 2007,"Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree - The Search for MyMelungeon > Ancestors" > > > > Paul , My name is Tommy Hunt and I live in Durham . I have just joined the > > Durham-Oragne Gen. Society. > > I need some help and ideas and do not know who to call on . The Problem; > > I have checked the Census Report for 1900 and found my father , Clarence > > Marvin Hunt , age 3. His older sister is also there age 7. There is also > > an > > older brother , age 10 named Claude. It clearly list him as a son of my > > Grandmother. I had never heard of Claude from my father or any of his > > brothers or sisters. My Grandmother never mentioned him . I checked the > > 1910 > > census , he was not there . He either died or left home . If he had left > > home I am sure someone would have mentioned him . I have checked the > > death > > records in Durham County and they only start at 1913. He is not there. I > > have checked the cemetaries , not there. Can anyone give me any other > > ideas > > as to how I can find what happened the this person. ? By the way , the > > cencus recorder at that time listed my Grandfather as R.M. Hunt not Robert > > Lee Hunt as it should have been listed. It also listed my Grandmother as > > Maggie instead of Margaret. I think he was in a big hurry to go to lunch. > > Many thanks , Tommy Hunt , [email protected] Original > > Message ----- > > From: "Paul Hollinghurst" <[email protected]> > > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 11:24 PM > > Subject: [NCDOGS] D-OGS Meeting Reminder, Wednesday, 7 November 2007, > > "Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree - The Search for My Melungeon > > Ancestors" > > > > > >> Wednesday, 7 November 2007 -- D-OGS Meeting > >> > >> TOPIC: "Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree - The Search for My > > Melungeon > >> Ancestors" > >> > >> Speaker: Lisa Alther > >> > >> Lisa Alther, the author of several books, just published her first > >> non-fiction book "Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree - The Search for > > My > >> Melungeon Ancestors". Her story begins with her childhood and involved > >> travels through the South and to several countries in search of the truth > > of > >> her origins, including a DNA test to confirm her suspicions. Lisa finds > >> answers about her origins but many mysteries remain. > >> > >> An extremely provocative element in Alther's search revolves around > >> boogie-man stories from childhood about Melungeons. She heard they had > >> six > >> fingers on each hand. As a child, she didn't know if this was true, or if > >> Melungeons existed. Haunted by this mystery, she began trying to learn > >> all > >> she could and met a man in southwest Virginia who, indeed, was born with > > six > >> fingers on each hand who showed her scars from surgery to remove the > >> sixth > >> finger; he turned out to be a distant cousin of hers. > >> > >> As Alther says, "Conflicting origin of stories for the Melungeons abound. > >> They're said to be descended from Indians who mated with early Spanish > >> explorers, or from the survivors of Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony on > >> Roanoke Island, or from Portuguese sailors shipwrecked on the Carolina > >> coast, or from African slaves who escaped into the mountains." Her > >> newly-discovered cousin thought they had Turkish ancestry. After > >> traveling > >> the South and Turkey and other parts of the world for extensive research, > >> Alther concludes she is Melungeon, especially after having a DNA test > > which > >> showed all her genetic make-up. > >> > >> D-OGS Meeting will be held on: > >> Wednesday evening, 7 November 2007 at 7 p.m. > >> Duke Homestead Visitor's Center > >> 2828 Duke Homestead Road, Durham 27705 > >> Phone: (919) 477-5498 > >> One-half mile from I-85 and Guess Rd (Exit 175) > >> Follow the brown historic site road signs. > >> > >> A Map! http://tinyurl.com/3mbuj > >> Another Map! http://tinyurl.com/4gnkm > >> ******************************** > >> > >> ************************* > >> Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ > >> Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > > in the subject and the body of the message > >> > > > > ************************* > > Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ > > Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > > in the subject and the body of the message > > ************************* > Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ > Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >