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From: "JECrain" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Re: mt DNA Results for a 103 Year Old Woman
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 14:19:56 -0600
References: <20030302174113.73518.qmail@web41205.mail.yahoo.com>


David; First let me congratulate you, your wife and your mother-in-law for
her remarkable achievement of obtaining the age of 103 years. How wonderful!
Please let me recommend a very good resource of information about Melungeon
people.

http://www.geocities.com/ourmelungeons/front.html

You will find many good articles here which are well documented. Some of the
old documents published here can be found no where else online.

Janet Crain



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From: "David Faux" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Re: mt DNA Results for a 103 Year Old Woman


> Hello Beth: Thank you very much for your reply below.
> I am quite familiar with the Melungeon groups and the other so - called
"tri - racial isolates" from the Atlantic Seaboard and Appalachian
Mountains. How fascinating. I will spend the day looking up information on
the web concerning this most intersting group. It is also interesting to
learn that my mother in law's mtDNA profile may help to support your
proposal for the origins of the Melungeons.
> Most of my mother in law's ancestors disappear into the hills, from
Virginia through the Carolinas to northern Alabama to the Ozarks. It has
been a source of frustration that I have been unable to locate European
homes for any of them - now I think I understand why.
> I know that the surname Wright (Rebecca Wright born about 1812 in
Tennessee being my mother in law's great grandmother and being the one who
indirectly provided the mtDNA) is found among the Cherokees who resided in
Tennessee. Other surnames in my mother in law's ancestry such as Collins
(from Georgia) and McDaniel (from Virginia) fall into the same category.
As to forenames, Jemima (her paternal grandmother) and Sabra (her paternal
great grandmother) are not very typical and may be suggestive of other
elements within her mysterious Southern ancestral mix.
> I suspected mixed ancestry, so I have requested PrintDNA testing from
AncestrybyDNA (via FTDNA) and it will be very interesting to learn whether
there is evidence of non - IndoEuropean genes.
> Thank you for your input Beth. David.
> wrote:Yes, David, your Mother-in-law's maternal DNA
is very likely Melungeon -- an
> Appalachian ethnic group which has been present since the 1500's in the
> Southeastern United States. We have several ancestral lines who are
proving
> to have Semitic, Central Asian, Mediterrannean and Indo-Pakistani DNA --
both
> paternal and maternal. Some Melungeon researchers (myself included)
believe
> that this is because we were originally a colony of Sephardic Jews and
Muslim
> Moors who initially arrived in the New World as Conversos. We have a
growing
> data base at Family Tree DNA, if you would like to add examine your
mother's
> scores in comparison to it. Welcome to the 'tribe' ; somehow from reading
> your posts, I knew it was going to turn out this way. Beth Caldwell
Hirschman
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