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From: K T JAMES <>
Subject: Re: [MELUNGEON] Illegal Voting Trials- Portuguese
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:53:09 -0700 (PDT)
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I guess my folks didn't know the difference, Don.    Compliment here to you, you are the first to ever mention the difference!  I didn't even know the difference. 



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From: Don Collins <>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 12:41:36 PM
Subject: Re: [MELUNGEON] Illegal Voting Trials- Portuguese

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.
>
>
> -----------
>
> 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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