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From: "V Marie Worley Howery" <>
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] DNA News Report
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 07:47:40 -0500
References: <9f.2906ae19.2a44018e@cs.com>


Judy, just read the article in the Kingsport paper The piece that was
released early mentioned Turkish this didnt anyone know if it was brought
out or not...? I really feel that it is there Brent kept telling me I looked
like his cousins.. Have a super day folks...Marie
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Subject: Re: [Melungeon] DNA News Report


> 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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