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Melungeon Families of Interest - Goals
Roberta Estes has written two articles about the Melungeon DNA project for the Melungeon Historical Society newsletter. The articles, titled, "DNA Testing and the Melungeons - 2008" and "Melungeons and DNA - 2009" can be viewed at the two following links, respectively:
http://www.dnaexplain.com/Publications/PDFs/DNATestingandtheMelungeons9-10-08.pdf
http://www.dnaexplain.com/Publications/PDFs/MelungeonsandDNA6-21-09V2.pdf
Excerpted from:
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/familiesofinterest/default.aspx?section=goals
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Showing posts with label Melungeons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Melungeons. Show all posts
11 June 2011
21 July 2009
Goinstown, North Carolina (Melungeons)
The Melungeon Historical Society: Goinstown, North Carolina
Monday, July 20, 2009
Goinstown, North Carolina
Rockingham & Stokes Counties
Notes on Goinstown by Professor G.C. Waldrep III
"Goinstown's history appears to begin in the 1770's with families (chiefly Gibsons and Goinses) moving in from what is usually called the "Flat River settlement" in what is now northern Durham Co. (then Orange Co.).
This was a small fragment of that former settlement, most of whose members ultimately wound up in east Tennessee and became the "Melungeons".
"The Goinstown community went from being legally "white" (more or less, up through about 1810) to "free colored" or "mulatto" (through most of the 19th century) to "Black" (circa 1880-1910s) to "Indian" (1910s to 1954) to "white" (finally, with the merging of the "Indian" Goinstown school into the white Stoneville system in 1954).
[Follow link for the rest of this article.]
Monday, July 20, 2009
Goinstown, North Carolina
Rockingham & Stokes Counties
Notes on Goinstown by Professor G.C. Waldrep III
"Goinstown's history appears to begin in the 1770's with families (chiefly Gibsons and Goinses) moving in from what is usually called the "Flat River settlement" in what is now northern Durham Co. (then Orange Co.).
This was a small fragment of that former settlement, most of whose members ultimately wound up in east Tennessee and became the "Melungeons".
"The Goinstown community went from being legally "white" (more or less, up through about 1810) to "free colored" or "mulatto" (through most of the 19th century) to "Black" (circa 1880-1910s) to "Indian" (1910s to 1954) to "white" (finally, with the merging of the "Indian" Goinstown school into the white Stoneville system in 1954).
[Follow link for the rest of this article.]
14 December 2008
A Queer North Carolina Race (1894)
From The Melungeon Historical Society
Read a transcript of an 1894 article in the New York Sun, describing a "queer race" or people in North Carolina--Melungeons.
Read a transcript of an 1894 article in the New York Sun, describing a "queer race" or people in North Carolina--Melungeons.
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