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From: "Don Collins" <>
Subject: Re: [MELUNGEON] Illegal Voting Trials- Portuguese
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:41:36 -0600
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Portuguese = Nationality
Indian (NA) = Race

Two different things.

Don Collins

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Subject: Re: [MELUNGEON] Illegal Voting Trials- Portuguese


>
>
> In a message dated 10/21/2009 11:47:01 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
> All of the Gibsons that I have been involved with, or maybe I should say
> the ones from Hancock Co., with the exception of Bryson are R1b. This is
> maybe 12-15. We know genetically and genealogically they are connected
to
> the Peedee Gibsons also at some earlier time.
>
>
> Until we have definitive autosomal or something more than I have seen, I
> stand on what they always told me, five generations of them, Portuguese
and
> Indian.
>
>
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>
> Kathy,
>
> If I am not mistaken Thomas Gibson who married Celia Roberts is haplogroup
> I -- probably six or seven years ago Mike Bragg was researching this
> family and insisted his grandmother who descended from this family was
adamant
> they were not related to the Melungeon Gibsons -- a fact proven by DNA. He
> also indicated he believed they were Cherokee. Several old time
witnesses
> declared there were 'Melungeons' on the ridge and there were 'Indians' on
> the ridge and they were not the same.
>
> Joanne
>
> "I have been too long barked at to be mindful of the noise."
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