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Melungeon History, Research and Resources Pathfinder
Listings of books, journals, bibliographies, and other research resources, including links,
provided by the Appalachian State University Libraries in Boone, North Carolina.
http://www.library.appstate.edu/appcoll/research_aids/melungeons.html
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Melungeon Definition 2000
A definition of the term Melungeon with an attempt to describe who would be included in the group.
http://www.geocities.com/melungeonorigin/Definition2000.html
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Under One Sky
Newsletter of Melungeon research and history by Bill Fields. No longer published, but information
still available.
http://www.underonesky.org/Under_One_Sky.html
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Melungeon.info
Melungeon and Genealogy information and links. SE Kentucky connection.
http://melungeon.info
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The Melungeon Connection
An introductory site on the Melungeons, with a list of common surnames. By Nancy Sparks Morrison
http://sparksgenealogy.com/melungeons.html
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Melungeons: Who Are They?
Description of what is known and unknown about these people of Appalachia. Includes some
traditional versions of their origins and description of physical characteristics.
http://www.melungeonhealth.org/info.html
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Our Melungeons: Taking Back Our Heritage
Here is a site from Melungeons determined to resist scientific and historical research and maintain
their old legends as truth.
http://www.geocities.com/ourmelungeons/index.html
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Mahala Mullins
A site dedicated to the folk heroine of the Melungeons with a photograph of her.
http://members.aol.com/vardyvalley/mahalamullins.html
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Melungeons.com
Gives links to many sites, including the articles on the new DNA study.
http://www.melungeons.com/
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MELUNGEONS and Other Mestee Groups
Full-text on-line book with annotated bibliography. Description and history of the Melungeons and
other mixed race groups in the eastern United States. By Mike Nassau.
http://www.multiracial.com/readers/nassau.html
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Shalacy's Melungeon Homepage
Shalacy is a 13 year old country/folk entertainer. She sang her "Melungeon Song" at the
Melungeon Third Union. Site has links and her school report on the Melungeons.
http://www.geocities.com/mamashills/MelungeonSong.html
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Eastern Blackfoot - Siouan Indians from the VA-NC Piedmont
Historical information on this group, Saponi Indians who migrated widely and contributed many
ancestors to modern Melungeons, Cherokee, African-Americans and Whites in the Southeast and
Appalachians. Perhaps the principal Indian source of the Melungeons.
http://www.saponitown.com/blackfoot.htm
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The National Melungeon Registry
List of Melungeon surnames. Register your family.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Flats/5649/melunreg.htm
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Surviving Indian Groups of Eastern U.S.
1948 article based on Census research on Indian and mixed race groups of eastern U.S. Description,
location and common names given for many groups, including the Melungeons and Redbones. By William
Harlen Gilbert. 32 pages.
http://www.geocities.com/mikenassau/gilbert.htm
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Melungeon
A site which has a very long list of other information on the Melungeons plus a recounting of some
of the older stories about Melungeon history.
http://appalachian_home.tripod.com/melungeon.htm
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Gowen Research Foundation
Information on families with the name Gowen, including variations. This includes the most common
Melungeon name, Goins, Goin, Goings, Going, and others. Search the newsletters.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gowenrf/guests.htm
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Vardy Community Historical Society
This society is trying to preserve the Vardy Melungeon site on Blackwater Creek in Hancock County,
TN. Museum in the old Melungeon school. Mahala Mullins' cabin brought to the site from Newman's
ridge.
http://hometown.aol.com/vardyvalley/index.html
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Patrick Minges's Writings
Dissertation on Religion among Indians of the Southeast contains much information relevant to the
history of Melungeons and other Mestees. Also tells of Freemasonery among the Indians. Some
details of the mixing which produced the Mestee groups.
http://users.rcn.com/wovoka/professional.htm
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Summer 2001 - Vardy Gathering, Unions
Message from Wayne Winkler of the Melungeon Heritage Association about the meeting at Vardy this
Summer. Vardy is on Blackwater Creek, behind Newman's Ridge from Sneedville, TN, site of Melungeon
mission school.
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/Melungeon/2001-02/0981986600
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North from the Mountains: The Carmel Melungeons of Ohio
By John S. Kessler and Donald B. Ball. Paper on the Melungeons of Carmel, Ohio, presented at Third
Union, posted on the Melungeon Heritage Association webpage. Good history of Melungeons and it
gives name distributions.
http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Inn/1024/carmel1/Carmel1.htm
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Melungeon E-Group
A discussion group mainly for Melungeon genealogy.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Melungeon
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Darlene Wilson on the Melungeons
Discussion of what the word Melungeon has meant through time.
http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Square/5018/Page_8x.html
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Archives of the Melungeon-Kin Mailing List
Messages on this Rootsweb mailing list. Includes some of the discussion on the Malange area of
Angola as an origin of some of the original ancestors of the Melungeons.
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/melungeon-kin
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The Melungeon Reemergence in Southern Appalachia
Jason Adam's paper on the Melungeon struggle for self determination.
http://www.interracialvoice.com/jason.html
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The Melungeons Revisited: First Union
Article from Blue Ridge Country magazine on the First Union of the Melungeons and Brent Kennedy's
work.
http://www.blueridgecountry.com/melung/melung.html
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Muslims in the Americas Before Columbus
Some reference to Muslim presence among the Indians which might tie into the cultural observations
which have been used as evidence of a Turkish presence in Colonial times. Emphasis is on
Mediterranean Muslims, not the much better evidenced contact with the Guinea Coast.
http://users.erols.com/gmqm/mamerica.html
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Search results for 'melungeon'
GenSeeker at Rootsweb links to Melungeon sites (89 sites)
http://seeker.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=&restrict=&exclude=&method=and&a....
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Muslims in early America
Article in Islamic Horizons, which is a reprint of part of Brent Kennedy's book.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/5621/melungeons.html
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Ayyildiz Turkish Report on Melungeons
Report on the affinities between Turks and other Mediterranean people and Melungeons and other
Mestee and Indian groups of east and southeast America. Scroll down to Melungeon article.
http://www.mindspring.com/~tacaga/issue4/issue4.htm
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Archives of the Melungeon Mailing List.
Archives at RootsWeb. Choose arranged by subject threads or chronological order, with or without
names and dates. Search for names or topics of interest.
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/melungeon
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Paul Heinegg's "Free African Americans"
Family history of 500 African American families who were free in Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Maryland and Delaware from the colonial period until about 1820. Gives information on
the free Mulattos of Virginia and their role in the formation of the Melungeons and other groups.
http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/
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Black Dutch
Six different meanings for the term Black Dutch or Black German.
http://www.geocities.com/mikenassau/BlackDutch.htm
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Native American Muslims
An article about early contact between Native Americans and Muslims, which contends many Native
Americans adopted Islam. This may tie in with the better known Masonic movement among Native
Americans.
http://www.themodernreligion.com/convert/convert_namuslims.htm
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Wayfaring Stranger
The Black Dutch, German Gypsies, or Chicanere, and their relation to the Melungeons, by Linda D.
Griggs.
http://foclark.tripod.com/gypsy/Patrin1.htm
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Melungeon Mailing List
How to join the Melungeon Mailing List, from Martha Short's Melungeon Resource Page.
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mtnties/list.html
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Who to contact in your area
Contact board for a major new effort to organize Melungeons in state, county or regional groups.
See this to establish contact with other Melungeons and interested persons in your area. Posted by
SKYEAGLE.
http://www.angelfire.com/in3/melungeon/contacts.html
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The Black Irish Myth
A theory as to why people of Irish descent like to lay claim to Spanish blood from the Armada.
Links the Black Irish to the Melungeons. By Tom Kunesh.
http://www.darkfiber.com/blackirish/
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Melungeon group tied to Africans, American Indians
Kentucky newspaper article on Melungeons and the First Union meeting. Tells about on-going
research. By Judy Jones
http://www.kentuckyconnect.com/heraldleader/news/101997/forgins.html
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Melungeons - Their Turkish Origins - by Mehmet Cakir
Term paper written by a Turkish student in Colorado.
http://www.colorado.edu/iec/FALL299RW/can.html
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Melungeon Links of Interest
Part of Mountain Ties, Martha Short's site for Appalachian genealogy. This list gives many
Melungeons sites.
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mtnties/mlgnlinks.html
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ALHN Melungeon Webpage
This is the Melungeon information page for the American Local History Network.
http://www.geocities.com/alhnmelungeon
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Melungeons: Examining An Appalachian Legend
A book by Pat Spurlock Elder. Published by Continuity Press. Very controversial and considered
unreliable by many researchers. Includes link to her talk at Second Union.
http://www.continuitypress.com/melbook.html
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Melungeon Heritage Association
Sponsors of First, Second and Third Union - Melungeon conventions. Keep register of Melungeons and
their genealogy. The MHA purpose is to document and preserve the heritage and cultural legacy of
mixed-ancestry peoples in or associated with the southern Appalachians.
http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Inn/1024/
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My Melungeon Heritage
Histories of her family and some notable Melungeons such as Mahala Mullins. Some links. By Brenda
Nichols.
http://brendanichols.tripod.com/melungeon.html
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Melungeon Family Genealogy Forum
Discussion of genealogical topics about Melungeon families.
http://genforum.genealogy.com/melungeon/
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Black Dutch and Irish, Melungeons, Moravians, Pennsylvania Dutch
Shirley Hornbeck's This and That Genealogy Tips, Genealogy Tips on Black Dutch and Irish,
Melungeons, Moravians, Pennsylvania Dutch
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~hornbeck/blkdutch.htm
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Melungeon Origin eGroup
Discussion group on Melungeon history and origins.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MelungeonOrigin
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Melungeon Family Photo Album
Site where Melungeons can post pictures of their family for others to see.
http://communities.msn.com/MelungeonFamilyPhotoAlbum
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Appalachian Quarterly Magazine, Wise County (VA) Historical Society
A magazine which regularly covers items on Melungeons. Link to the Melungeon Registry, which
traces family histories of many Melungeon families. List of common Melungeon names.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Flats/5649/
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What is a Melungeon?
Description of several groups which are called Melungeon. Stresses the need to have a definition
broad enough to cover all of them, by Mike Nassau.
http://www.geocities.com/mikenassau/what.htm
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Redbones and Melungeons
The Redbones or Louisiana Melungeons are a mixed origin group living near the Sabine River on the
Texas-Louisiana border. They are connected to both the Melungeons and the mixed race groups of
South Carolina.
http://www.murrah.com/gen/redbones.htm
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The Melungeon Health Education and Support Network
By Nancy Sparks Morrison. Provides information about the major Mediterranean illnesses that are
inherited through the Melungeon connection.
http://www.melungeonhealth.org/
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Melungeon Resource Page
Includes a FAQ about the mixed Mediterranean-Indian heritage of Melungeons, genealogy links, and
information on the Melungeon mailing list. By Martha Short
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mtnties/melungeon.html
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Implementation of Segregation
An interesting site highlighting racial laws that affected Black and mixed race people, with one
letter on the Brass Ankles of South Carolina.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~south/archives/threads/segregation.html
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The Melungeons
Historical sketch, and information about surnames common in the Melungeon community.
http://members.aol.com/bbbenge/page15.html
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Melungeon Research and Links
If you follow these links that I have listed here you'll notice that there are various theories on
who the Melungeons were, and what their ancestry was. This makes the Melungeons all the more
interesting, because no one knows for certain their background or origins, (though many have VERY
strong opinions on the matter).
http://members.aol.com/strat43z/melung.html
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Southeastern Kentucky Melungeon Information Exchange
http://www.bright.net/~kat/skmie.htm
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