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Subject: [Melungeon] Judaism/Africa
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 23:23:41 EDT
You might want to check out the link below concerning African Jews and DNA.
In addition I have heard that the nation of Ghana had 8 Jewish kings before
the colonial era. The African ancestry of the Melungeons beginning as early
as 1619 came mostly from Angola and historic Kongo, but there were also many
Ghana arrivals in America in the late 17th century. Tim Hashaw
<A HREF="http://www.haruth.com/JewsLemba.html">;
http://www.haruth.com/JewsLemba.html</A>;
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