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From: Steve Williamson <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] NYTimes.com Article: Celtic Found to Have Ancient Roots
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 20:39:00 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <75.14b62833.2c34cbf0@aol.com>


Elizabeth,
I've read your posts, and I've looked at the Y results
on www.melungeon.com with Panther-Yates's genealogical
"detective work" about various families, etc, etc. I
have to say, I'm not impressed. I have spoken about
your work with several highly regarded Melungeon
researchers.

I'm from Appalachia, from Pike Co, KY, just north of
"Melungeon" country. My family has been there for 200
years. I recognized several of the people's results in
your study, such as that of Cecil Skeen. Those are my
cousins - literally. Almost all are northwest European
by surname and haplogroup (R1b is just as much British
as Iberian, hon). You are radically misunderstanding
the search results you are getting at Y STR.ORG, etc.

I can assure you, we hillbillies are NOT Jewish. That
should be manifestly obvious to anyone who's been up
in those "hollers." Have you been there?

Steve W.


--- wrote:
> Hi DNA Listers,
> I am going to suggest an alternative hypothesis,
> based on recent
> revelations regarding my own Scotch-Irish ancestry.
> Many of the Ayrshire and other
> Lowlands Scots who migrated to Ulster Province with
> the Plantation of James I of
> England in 1607 - 1650 (now known as Ulster Scots
> in Ireland) sunsequently
> re-immigrated to Appalachia in the 1720- 1750 time
> period, where they became
> known as the Scotch-Irish. I was supposed to be
> descended from these people --
> and indeed I am -- but they are not primarily
> Celtic. Instead many of those we
> have tested in the Melungeon DNA Project are coming
> out R1b, but centered in
> Iberia, R1a and matching Ashkenazic Levites, some
> are flat out Semitic and
> Berber and , yes, Hg G.
> Further, it is these same Appalachian
> Scotch-Irish descendants who are ,
> in several cases, now recognizing instances of
> crypto-Jewish (and rarer,
> crypto-Muslim) religious practices among their
> ancestors. Perhaps most striking as
> an example of this phenomenon is the Clan Cowan of
> Scotland, members of which
> migrated to Ulster and then to Appalachia. Some
> persons from this group have
> been found to have 12/12 matches with Ashkenazic
> Levites from Russia AND a
> tradition of 'being Jewish' in their distant
> ancestry. One such person found his
> great, great grandmother's gravestone in a
> Knoxville, TN cemetery labeled as
> "Rebecca Cowan -- Mother of Israel".
> So contrary to the 'Received View' among
> traditional historians, I
> believe that
> several of the Scotch-Irish (and Ulster Scots still
> in Nothern Ireland) were
> originally Jews; many of whom subsequently adopted
> Presbyterianism. However
> their genes remained unchanged, carrying evidence of
> their Mediterranean and
> Middle Eastern origins; and in some cases, their
> ancestral religious memories
> remained alive, as well.
> It might also be of interest for you to know
> that the first printer was
> brought to Aberdeen Scotland all the way from
> Germany in the early 1600's
> (Edward Raban) and that the city fathers promptly
> requested him to print a copy of
> the Psalms of David
> (NOT the New Testament) and that embedded on the top
> of the cover page of the
> book is the Hebrew word for God in Hebrew script.
> All the best, Beth
>
>
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