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From: "Dennis Maggard" <>
Subject: Re: [MELUNGEON] Statement by Brent Kennedy?????
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:46:25 -0500
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From: "ljcrain2" <>


> Cindy; I am only saying that his and three others' result of M was argued
> for Melungeons to have 4 or 5% Siddi. A false assumption whoever had it.
>
> It is very confusing. Siddi people don't live in Turkey and M does not
prove
> Siddi.
>
> Neither am I saying Beent wrote this. Just that Nancy said he did.
>
> Bright shiny penny for whoever finds the original. :-)
>
> Janet

Janet, and everyone else, Nancy was only quoting Brent in the first
paragraph, which has quotation marks around it The second paragraph, the
one with the bit about knowing their mtDNA came through what is now Turkey,
etc., was Nancy speaking for herself. The quotes around the first paragraph
are plainly there in your, but for the record, here is where Nancy's
original post can be found in the archives:

See: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/Melungeon/2006-01/1136570105

Brent *certainly* thinks his mother had Melungeon ancestry. Just look at
his book.

Dennis

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