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 >