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From: "Donalyn Snelling" <>
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] DNA News Report
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 05:14:52 +0000


Hi Judy,

I think Dennis is talking about Henige from the University of Wisconsin at
Madison who made some comments regarding the DNA Studies, not Paul Heinegg,
who put together the FPC info. I too am grateful to Heinegg for at least
identifying these ancestors of ours. It's kind of funny, you know, on the
Snelling list all of this stuff is hush-hush.

Cheers,
Donalyn


>From:
>To:
>Subject: Re: [Melungeon] DNA News Report
>Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 00:11:58 EDT
>
>In a message dated 6/20/02 4:13:37 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>
>writes:
>
>
> > and they
> > are further confused by "experts" like Henige who want to discount the
>whole
> > thing because it proves them wrong.
> >
> >
>
>By that, Dennis, are you talking about his (Henige) conclusion that the
>Free
>AA mixture was added by Black men who married white wives, and not by Black
>women? I've always disagreed by that conclusion. I don't know why his
>data
>didn't include offspring of Owner/slave unions, because I've seen enough
>records of this that it seemed to me his sample areas should have included
>some. I've never collected the data and evaluated it statistically, but
>that
>conclusion just didn't fit with oral histories, individual records, or
>community knowledge.
> Having said that, I will be eternally grateful to Henige for his
>lists
>of FPC's that he has so freely shared with us. To me it was a treasure
>sent
>from Heaven.
>
>Judy L.
>
>
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