Historical Melungeons

Jack Goins, a Melungeon descendant, holding photographs of his step great great grandfather, George Washington Goins and his great great g...

Population Finder is a report included with the Family Finder DNA test from Family Tree DNA. Today, this report is the single best option ...

Melungeon Myth of Drake Dropping off Passengers on Roanoke  By Janet Crain  A myth exists on the Internet that the Melungeon...

 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...