Contact board for a major new effort to organize Melungeons in state, county or regional groups. See this to establish contact with other Melungeons and interested persons in your area. Posted by SKYEAGLE.
An article about early contact between Native Americans and Muslims, which contends many Native Americans adopted Islam. This may tie in with the better known Masonic movement among Native Americans.
Six different meanings for the term Black Dutch or Black German.
Family history of most families who were free in this region during the colonial period. Includes extracts from government records.
Archives at RootsWeb. Choose arranged by subject threads or chronological order, with or without names and dates. Search for names or topics of interest.
A 1994 article from Islamic Horizons magazine, which is a reprint of part of Brent Kennedy's book.
Some reference to Muslim presence among the Indians which might tie into the cultural observations which have been used as evidence of a Turkish presence in Colonial times. Emphasis is on Mediterranean Muslims, not the much better evidenced contact with the Guinea Coast.
Article from Blue Ridge Country magazine on the First Union of the Melungeons and Brent Kennedy's work.
Jason Adam's paper on the Melungeon struggle for self determination.
Messages on this Rootsweb mailing list. Includes some of the discussion on the Malange area of Angola as an origin of some of the original ancestors of the Melungeons.
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