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Melungeon (/ m ə ˈ l ʌ n dʒ ən / mə-LUN-jən) (sometimes also spelled Malungean, Melangean, Melungean, Melungin [3]) was a slur [4] historically applied to individuals and families of mixed-race ancestry with roots in colonial Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina primarily descended from free people of color and white settlers.
Many people born in the 20th century have claimed Black Dutch heritage, sometimes in addition to Native heritage. [5] Unlike families in Pennsylvania or Virginia, most of the mixed-race Black Dutch families of the Deep South have English, Scots, or Irish surnames, and have no German ancestry in their families.
The Chestnut Ridge people (CRP) are a mixed-race community concentrated in an area northeast of Philippi, Barbour County, in north-central West Virginia, with smaller related communities in the adjacent counties of Harrison and Taylor. They are often referred to as "Mayles" (from the most common surname — Mayle or Male), or "Guineas" (now ...
This is a list of haplogroups of historic people. Haplogroups can be determined from the remains of historical figures, or derived from genealogical DNA tests of people who trace their direct maternal or paternal ancestry to a noted historical figure. Some contemporary notable figures have made their test results public in the course of news ...
Edward Price observed that the most common surnames among the families were Gibson, Nichols and Perkins. His research found that the ancestors of the group were listed as free people of color on census records. [1] Paternal line descendants of Bryson Gibson and Valentine Collins who participated in the Melungeon DNA Project belong to Haplogroup ...
That is from the Melungeon dna project....clearly those 2 is not related..clearly not brothers. Vardy collins was specifically named Melungeon, Valentine was never associated with Melngeon people. People claimed he was Vardy's brother and that was why people thought Valentine was a Melungeon. DNA clearly shows this was not the case.
Some of these also are commonly represented among other mixed-race groups, such as the Melungeon in Tennessee and the Lumbee people in North Carolina. Over time, people of mixed race often identified with and married more frequently into one or another of the major ethnic groups, becoming part of the white, black, or the Beaver Creek Indians ...
Melungeon culture is centred on the Gulf coast and south of Bermuda on the Eastern seaboard--originally Spanish areas. People think that just because impoverished Scotch-Irish on the frontier dressed in buckskin and furs, that they were some "noble savages" (though they were not Cherokee, but in fact Andrew Jackson's henchmen).