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From: "Dennis Maggard" <>
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] Melungeon DNA Study Results
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 11:49:31 -0400
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From: "Celia Millington-Wyckoff" <>

> I have yet to put aside the time to read everything more thoroughly,
> but it appears--at first glance--that all of us were "right"--those
> who believe the Melungeons are tri-racial (white, Black, Indian), as
> well as those who believe there is additional Mediterranean (Turkish)
> and other eastern (Indian, as in from India) ancestry!

It was never an either/or situation. As Wayne Winkler remarked to me
privately, the only people left out in the cold by the DNA results are the
hard-liners with really narrow ideas about Melungeon origins.

Dennis



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