Well God Bless You All that are researching the Rameys or Remys. I have tried for months to get information on my line from Wise, Va. and have found very little. You would almost think they did this to us deliberately. I want to know my ancestry, I don't care if they are melungeons, Black Dutch, Indians or anything else-I JUST WANT TO KNOW! Gloria

Well said Gloria!!!! Who cares what we find, lord just PLEASE.......let us find them!!! Faith >I want to know my ancestry, I don't care if they are melungeons, Black Dutch, Indians or anything else-I JUST WANT TO KNOW! Gloria >

Gloria, If your ancestors are melungeon/Indian then we're probably related! I have many reasons to suspect both. Strange stories. My aunt even said quite bluntly,"There are secrets about my mother's people you will never discover" ! Well, I have plenty of clues. My grandmother's name was Indian-(Etelka) and Latin(?) Vetula. I did not know her name until last year when my father blurted out," My mother's name was Etelka at Christmas dinner!" I exclaimed,"Dad it doesn't sound English (all he's talked about-his father's side-what is it?) He said quietly,"well, It's Indian." I said ,"gee.. Dad do you mean to tell me..you're Indian?" He quickly changed the subject, can not seem to find a picture of his mother and has refused to discuss her except for giving me three CONFLICTING reasons why she was not Indian! His sister gave me a fourth!) So was her sister's - La Vera Elzina. Sounds like a melungeon mix. They were odd people as I remember from my childhood-wore long black dresses and high laced black boots and kept to themselves in the hills of TN. My grandmother's parents-Redema Ramey & Samuel Good- seem to spring from nowhere onto a rich man's property and train his horses in order to buy the stables when Etelka was 10. Very strange. I have a picture of Mary JEAN -who was my great grandmother and married to a Travis Milton Ramey. I have paintings of them done by their daughter, my grandmother-Redema Ramey. Both have very dark copper colored ruddy looking skin (Spanish ?Indian Portuguese? Probably some mixture? ) Also,my great grandmother is wearing gold feather earrings! I have NC>TN> AL. If interested, I will send to you. Lots lof luck. Teresa Panther Yates