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From: "Suze" <>
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] DNA News Report
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 11:37:00 -0500
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I don't know if a white man would have necessarily meant all were white in
the household...

What I've found interesting among my ancestry is that sometimes I've found a
sibling listed as white with a mulato brother....or a sibling listed as
white one time, but mulato another time.

I'm thinking that what people got listed as had more to do with what the
census taker was thinking at the time more than reality.

Suze
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Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] DNA News Report


> In a message dated 6/20/2002 11:16:51 PM Central Standard Time,
> writes:
>
>
> > 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.
>
> Hello - I was unaware that there was any question about AA women marrying
> white men. What is this all about? I am sure that whatever mixture I
> contain in these ol' genes came from AA woman, NA women, etc. The men are
> listed as white as far back as I am able to go. I am currently attempting
to
> find links for the whites living in the same area as the FPCs listed by
Paul
> Heinege (sp?). If a census taker in 1770 came to a house and the husband
was
> known as white no matter his appearance, then I would imagine the whole
> household was listed as white no matter what their mixture. This has
nothing
> to do with Melungeons as they came "into existence" in 1813 when someone
> wrote the word Melungeon in a church record - correct?? They are
mentioned
> nowhere prior to 1813 and therefore did not exist - correct?? That seems
to
> be the logic of the Newmans Ridgers and Hancock Countians. The existence
of
> the Melungeons AS A GROUP prior to 1813 is pure speculation, correct??
Rick
>
>
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