Anita, None of my family names are on any of the list I have seen. But like you, I have the knots on the back of my head. {Nancy is the one who found one I wasn't aware of having} I don't think I have any Melungeon ancestry. But find it very interesting to study. Most of my ancestors are English,German and the like. But my grandmother, on my Dad's side, is the one who causes me to wonder. I grew up thinking she was part Indian, but haven't found anything to support those ideas. She was Toler and Blankenship, I know how far away can you get? What surprised most of us at the Gathering, was looking at family pictures. And there would be those you could tell were Angelo-Saxon and right beside them was someone that looked Spanish or Indian. I can remember as a child someone being called Black Dutch. They would be the ones we now call Melungeons. Oh well. It is an interesting subject and if anyone has a chance to attend any of the Gatherings,I would advise you to attend. We met some of the nicest people at the one held in Logan this year. Brenda > Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:36:54 -0700 > From: anitajoe1963@yahoo.coms > To: wvlogan@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [WVLOGAN] Melungeons > > Yes, that is correct. However you should also note that just because a surname appears on the list does not necessarily mean they were melungeon. > > Two of my names appear on the list; Belcher and Coleman. Several of us in my immediate family have thalessemia (minor) and I have the knots on my head as well as shovel teeth. I also have lupus. All of these are traits of melungeon ancestry. And we have Belchers in my paternal line. However, it appears that there were melungeons on my father's paternal line as well. > > In 1963, at the age of 28, my father died from what we now believe to have been thalaseemia maior. His maternal line was the Sturgells and Belchers while his paternal line was McClungs and Colemans but there have been no stories passed down regarding anyone else in the family having had the health problems my father had. > > Anita > > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Richard Stewart <rcs5ster@gmail.com> > To: wvlogan@rootsweb.com > Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 4:27:28 AM > Subject: [WVLOGAN] Melungeons > > I have 19 of the Melungeon surnames per Brent Kennedy in my family lines. > Three of my grandparents have a Melungeon surname - Mullins, Stewart, and > Berry. I took an ethnicity test that showed my ancestry to be > Portugese/Spanish, Native American, Brahmin, Belgian, Moroccan Berber, > Scottish, Norwegian, and probable Jewish. I did not show a drop of English > or Irish. Just because our families may have immigrated from England or > Ireland does NOT mean that was their ethnicity. > > Rick > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WVLOGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WVLOGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd_062009