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- Mon Aug 24, 2015 10:17 am
- Forum: Melungeon
- Topic: Tips on Black Dutch! Black Irish, Melungeons,
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Tips on Black Dutch! Black Irish, Melungeons,
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hornbeck/blkdutch.htm This website has a great overview of variou groups. The German Noravians, Black Duth I found interesting. I have a German gig grandfather who came from Preetz, Germany a Duchy of Denmark in 1860 when he came over. He want allowd to immigr...
- Mon Aug 24, 2015 10:07 am
- Forum: Jewish
- Topic: Sephardic Genealogy Resources
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- Mon Aug 24, 2015 9:42 am
- Forum: Melungeon
- Topic: Redbones of Louisiana
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Redbones of Louisiana
Melungeons were not limited to Cumberland, TN, VA. And Kentucky. The Historical Melungeons as they call themselves and core Melungeon DNA group were from Sneedville, Hancock County, Tn and limit themselves to certain surnames like Collins, Gibson, Mullins. They claim the group with the first written...
- Mon Aug 24, 2015 9:14 am
- Forum: Cherokee
- Topic: Irish Cherokee
- Replies: 0
- Views: 7371
Irish Cherokee
This article is from a newsletter called Pitters Cherokee Trails. I use to subscribe by mail, now it's online. This article discusses, Alabama Irish Cherokee, Black Dutch, Black Irish, Lumbee an Melungeon. Interesting. http://happytrails_2.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/blackdutch%5B...
- Mon Aug 24, 2015 8:34 am
- Forum: Native American
- Topic: Appalache and the French
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7650
Appalache and the French
The Appalache Indians were located around Tallahassee, Fl among the Spanish. After a war they fled to the French Fort de la Mobile. They were Catholic and several of them were baptized and show in the earliest church records. There are a number if Choctaw in the records as well. http://www.southalab...
- Sun Aug 23, 2015 10:11 am
- Forum: Native American
- Topic: Mobilian Indians
- Replies: 0
- Views: 7116
Mobilian Indians
The Mobilian Indians considered Bottle Creek Mounds as a sacred site. The Mobilians lived near the French. They claimed their gods were at the mound, if you touched them you would die. One Indian took Bienville to see them. Bienville found 5 figurines of ceramic of people and an owl. The Indian was ...
- Sun Aug 23, 2015 8:59 am
- Forum: Native American
- Topic: Bottle Creek Mounds Mobile
- Replies: 1
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- Sun Aug 23, 2015 8:29 am
- Forum: Native American
- Topic: Ancient lost civilization in Cuba?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6891
Ancient lost civilization in Cuba?
http://www.examiner.com/article/was-there-an-ancient-lost-civilization-cuba Please visit link for article and slide show. Included are renderings of Maya ships, routes around Gulf of Mexico. I paste the full article because this website is hard to read and collapses the browser The Calusas of SW Flo...
- Sun Aug 23, 2015 7:37 am
- Forum: Native American
- Topic: Bottle Creek Mounds Mobile
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7542
Bottle Creek Mounds Mobile
There are mounds in the Mobile Tensaw Rivers Delta that can be reached by water. They are very obscure, and I had found little to post about them except for local info previously. I found them curious and interesting to my local research, Here is some info from Richard Thornton http://www.examiner.c...
- Sun Aug 23, 2015 7:33 am
- Forum: Native American
- Topic: Migration Legend of Creek People Maya
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6983
Re: Migration Legend of Creek People Maya
A personal note from the author: Richard Thornton The first "real" archaeologist to realize a direct connection between Mexico and the Southeast was Dr. Roman Piña-Chan, Director of the Museo Nacional de Antropologia de Mexico . . . and also one of the greatest archaeologists, who ever liv...