Afro-European Genetic Admixture in the United States Frank Sweet’s June 17 presentation at Fifth Union was entitled “Americans Are More Racially Mixed Than They Imagine.” The link below connects to a similar presentation made a short time before Fifth Union, comeplete with graphs and pictures. http://backintyme.com/essay040608.htm Since retiring as electrical engineer and school […]
Melungeon Unions (Archive, pre-2012)
Jerry Warsing presentation, 2004
The East Asian Factor by Jerry Warsing Presented at Fifth Union Kingsport, Tennessee Friday, 19 June 2004 Who are the Melungeons? I only learned of their existence in approximately the year 1996. I quickly learned their origins were shrouded in secrecy, and felt some people knew something about who they were, but were for some […]
David Arnett presentation, 2006
The Importance of the Melungeon Community to Turkish-American Relations by David Arnett Sixth Union Kingsport, Tennessee June 9, 2006 I would like to begin by expressing heartfelt greetings to all of you from the great people of Turkey. I am a proud American, of course, and a career Foreign Service Officer of the United States, […]
James Nickens presentation, 2006
Nickens Melungeon Genesis The Indian Ancestry of the Melungeons A Summary of the Lecture Series Delivered Before the Melungeon Heritage Association 2000 – 2006 Regarding the Indian Ancestry and Other Origins of the East Tennessee Melungeons James H. Nickens Virginia Indian Historical Society Melungeon Heritage Association Mid-Atlantic Native American Researchers Sixth Union June 8-10, 2006 […]
A.D. Powell presentation, 2006
Melungeons and the Mixed Race Experience A speech given to the Melungeon “Sixth Union” Conference on 9 June 2006 A. D. Powell One of the many “hidden histories” of the United States has been the story of the massive government effort to deny the existence of mixed-race people and, especially, the multiracial ancestry within the […]
Mattie Ruth Johnson presentation, 2005
Ruth’s Four Branches Presented by Mattie Ruth Johnson When I first started researching my family history I did not know all the good and bad stories that were out there about us. Since my ancestors were called Melungeons I became more interested in, what is a Melungeon? We were told as small children we were […]
