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From: "Dennis Maggard" <>
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] Melungeon DNA Study Results
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 06:07:36 -0400
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> Hello Dennis - Please elaborate as to who the hard-liners are that Mr.
> Winkler mentioned to you privately. Does he mean the Newmans
Ridge/Hancock
> Co. people who claim the name Melungeon as theirs alone? Or is there
another
> hard-line group re: Melungeon origins. Thanks you. Rick

He, and I, mean by hard-liners those people who deny any possibility of a
non-Northwest European contribution to the white component of the tri-racial
Melungeon mix. I'm thinking principally of DeMarce, Henige (not to be
confused with Heinegg), and Elder and their followers.

Dennis

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