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From: Celia Millington-Wyckoff <>
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] Melungeon DNA Study Results
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:17:51 -0400
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Good point, Dennis. Now, is the study itself going to be published
somewhere for all to see? Or, better yet (for those of us who are
non-scientifically inclined!), will it be available in a paraphrased
version (but certainly LESS paraphrased than the newspapers'
versions)?

Celia in PA


At 11:49 AM -0400 6/20/02, Dennis Maggard wrote:
>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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Celia Millington-Wyckoff, M.A.
Instructional Materials Designer
Department of Distance Education/The World Campus
Penn State University
210 Rider II Building
University Park, PA
16802
814-863-8293


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