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From: "VMWorley-Howery" <>
Subject: Re: Native Americans, was RE: [DNA] OT - three brothers
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 09:23:20 -0000
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Sounds to me like you encountered us Melungeons....Marie co List Mgr
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From: Carson and Betty Turner <>
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Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 1:24 PM
Subject: Native Americans, was RE: [DNA] OT - three brothers


>
>
> <<-----Original Message-----
> From: Bonner, Gregg
> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 11:30 PM
>
> It is not so much that they are Indians, but they are always Cherokee
> Indians. People never say, "I heard tell that grandma Jones was an Indian,
I
> think she was a Winnebago, or an Apache".
>
> <snip> >>
>
> ...and not just any Cherokee but a "Cherokee Princess" hmmmm.
>
> I research western NC genealogy regularly and find this family tradition
in
> almost every family I work on. It is not uncommon to identify a remote
> connection to the Native tribes among western NC families but it is almost
> always not the person that the family thought it was. This "explanation"
is
> also often used to explain why dark haired children don't look like their
> blonde parents; i.e.. "great grandma was an Indian". another "hmmmmm."
>
> Too bad there is not a simple test to determine where in the tree those
> Native Americans are so they'd be easier to find on paper. ;-)
>
> CoachT
>
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