Historical Melungeons

 As part of a broader initiative, about 60,000 pages of Tennessee newspapers from 1850-1876 are now online for free at the Library of Congr...

  Digital Library of Applachia Artifacts from Vardy, Hancock County,Tennessee Katherine Vande Brake...

 Congratulations to my fellow authors: Roberta Estes, Jack Goins and Penny Ferguson!! Our paper entitled Melungeons, a Multi-Ethnic Populati...

Perry woman featured in HBO documentary dies  By Jim Warren — jwarren@herald-leader.com  Posted: 12:00am on Dec 20, 2010  Bass an...

  What about autosomal testing that tells us what ethnic groups we fall into? There are two types of autosomal DNA tests. The first...

This post was first published on this blog on  SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2012 Thomas Collins Sr. born 1710 and his descendants: by Jack Go...

Native American princess Pocahontas was born around 1595 near Jamestown, Virginia. She first met English settlers in Jamestown Colony in 1...

By Janet Crain Those of you who have tested at 23andMe may now upload your raw data to Family Tree DNA to be converted to Family Fi...

Tiny region in central Russia has DNA link to native Americans today Ancestors thought to have walked across ice 13,000 years ago Altai is...

 Thanks to those who complained about 23andMe's plans to drop non-paying subscribers from their data base, 23andMe announced they have ...

  By DAVID TREUER Published: December 20, 2011 AMERICA’S first blood quantum law was passed in Virginia in 1705 in order to determine who...

 This new move is going to make it much harder to do genealogy research. JC Social Security Administration extends FOIA restriction to 100...

By Roberta Estes, copyright 2011 People are just thrilled to get their DNA results back when they discovered they have mitochondrial DNA ...

William Eaton's Muster Roll - Granville County 1754 by Roberta Estes The Saponi Indians were allied and grouped with the Eno, the ...