Melungeon Research

Long time Melungeon List Member

Patty Baldwin has started a mailing

list to discuss family treasures and

heirlooms.

The description of this mailing list:

This is a list for those of us who have been entrusted with the ecletic
heirlooms that have been passed down in our families. We will explore the ancestral and ethnic origins , age of, and the kind of said heirlooms and try to pinpoint where they came from and how old they might be. For instance, I have a Levant Waist Sash of Turkish /Portuguese origin that has been in my family for over four hundred years. The Sash has it's ethnic roots in the Levant section of the Mediterranean . It is quite a mystery how it lasted, still intact
within my family for over 400 years. My family are of Melungeon / 'Portyghee' ancestry. Please join us in posting your own stories about the unusual artifacts that have been entrusted to you by your family for safe keeping through the ages. Hopefully we will try to uncover the mysteries of our family legacies. Scholars are most welcomed to subscribe , as well anyone else who would like to know a little bit more about our unique familial historical artifacts; no matter what they might be. Please join us in our quest to try to discover our families age old legacies entrusted to us....Let's explore together !! Everyone welcome, Over 17 years of age please.
You can join this list by going to the following web page:

http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/heirloom_legacies

Pam Cresswell's maternal grandmother

This beautiful "Black Irish" lady is Cora Belle BLACKBURN BRANTLEY. She was born Aug. 20, 1891 and died Sept. 4, 1916. She had two children, Jesse Benjamin and Bertha Mae. "Cory" as she was called was married to Daniel Marion BRANTLEY. She is the Grandmother of Melungeon list member Joseph W. Hastings. Thanks for sharing Joe! Visit Joe's Place for more genealogy:

Joshua F. PERKINS vs. John R. WHITE

An 1857 slander trial in
Johnson County TN

  1. ALHN Appalachia

  2. Open Directory Project recommended Melungeon links

  3. Melungeons and Other Mestee Groups by Mike Nassau. Full-text, on-line book with annotated bibliography.

  4. My Appalachian Home by Carol Huff

  5. A MELUNGEON HOME PAGE This is an important research site, with many links. Be sure to read about Walter Plecker. Home | News | Archive | Reseach Aids | Need Help? |Post message | Read messages

  6. First Union: The Melungeons Revisited

  8. Gowen Research Foundation

  9. Hancock County, Home of the Melungeons

  10. EASTERN KENTUCKY GENEALOGY AND HISTORY CONNECTIONS Mary K. Goodyear's homepage, with many Melungeon research links including Possible Melungeon Surnames , Melungeon Ancestry Research Page , MELUNGEONS IN THE NEW WORLD............. A TIME LINE, SKMIE

  11. Intro to "The Melungeons: ... Ethnic Cleansing in America" by Brent Kennedy

  12. Joe's Place

  13. Marty Grant's Genealogy

  14. Letcher County, Kentucky - Genealogy

  15. Melungeon History

  17. Melungeon List Homepage

  18. Melungeon Heritage Page by Martha Smith

  19. The Melungeons

  21. Melungeon Research and Links Read the article on Melungeons by The Wall Street Journal - The Wall Street Journal

  22. The Melungeons -- Blue Ridge Country magazine

  23. Mountain Wonder - Welcome The Online Guide to Wise County,Virginia

  24. The Mystery of the Melungeons
    by Nancy Sparks Morrison

  25. The National Melungeon Registry, Wise Co. VA Historical Society

  26. New River Notes by Jeffrey C. Weaver

  27. Origins of the Melungeon- American Subculture
    by Henry Robert Burke

  28. "So you were told you were Black Dutch or Black Irish"

  29. The Spanish Pioneer in United States History : The Melungeons: The Pioneers or the Interior Southeastern United State 1526-1997
    A book by Eloy J. Gallegos.

  30. APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN FAMILIES DeMarce's Research, and several new articles and letters. A Great Melungeon research site.

  31. The Melungeon Health Education and Support Network

  32. Mountain Ties

  33. The Louisiana Redbones
  35. Under One Sky Melungeon Newsletter - Under One Sky is a newsletter of Melungeon research and history by Bill Fields.
  36. WHO WERE THE BLACK DUTCH?
  37. The Gathering Place including a Melungeon section, I'm Homeward Bound
  38. Southeastern Kentucky Melungeon Information Exchange by Bill Fields
  39. Cherokee by Blood

  40. BLACK DUTCH Etc

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