Melungeon Voices

Trailer from the documentary "Melungeon Voices" featuring "Sweet Rain" by Euphoria written by (EMI MP writer) Ken Ramm.

Melungeon Voices
Writer, Director, Producer - Julie Williams Dixon
Co-Director/DP - Warren Gentry
with : Dr. Brent Kennedy and other leading Melungeon researchers

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Music

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• EMI
• Music
• Publishing
• Melungeon
• Voices
• Ken
• Ramm

[lovingit1000]

@hamongog2015 - It's not such a mystery considering that we have DNA testing today and it has shown a strong link with both European and Sub-Saharan African haplotypes. They've also found traces of Native DNA. You can look it up. I'm not sure why you doubt the African part, considering how so many African slaves passed in history. They could not if they didn't look more European. It's estimated that 30% of white Americans have a recent African ancestor because of it...especially in the South.

[lovingit1000]

@hamongog2015 - It's not such a mystery considering that we have DNA testing today and it has shown a strong link with both European and Sub-Saharan African haplotypes. They've also found traces of Native DNA. You can look it up. I'm not sure why you doubt the African part, considering how so many African slaves passed in history. They could not if they didn't look more European. It's estimated that 30% of white Americans have a recent African ancestor because of it...especially in the South.

[Cre8iveN8ive]

@bassbasketball03 Considering nobody really knows what they are, you could be. I know a family of "Melungeons" who claim to be black, white and Cherokee, and they even look like an almost even mixture of the three. But those are the Melungeons of Tennessee. Apparently most "melungeons" in Virginia actually look white and claim to be Turkish or Portuguese, but my family has known of two families with melungeons and they are too dark to just be one of those. Are you from the Southeast?

[BOGZASV8MA]

everyone here who has done genetic tests. i am not melungeon but very curious.

anyone HERE has Haplogroup I2a on their Y chromosome. thats my haplogroup.?

i am croatian -serbian . let me know.

[shifragri]

1pt. THE MALUNGU STORY IN A NUTSHELL

The original Melungeon community began among the Angolans arriving in Virginia in the early 1600s. These Africans called themselves malungu from 1620 through 1700 when the first generations of Kimbundu-speaking Angolan arrivals in Virginia were still alive. By the 1660s, the exclusive Angolan malungu community had begun extending to include the mixed descendants of whites and Indians who were intermarrying into their families.

[PharaohII]

@lovingit1000 THANK YOU!!! THESE PEOPLE ARE GOING AS FAR AS SAYING THEY ARE TURKISH!!! Has white society created it that bad to be BLACK!!

[bassbasketball03]

Does the fact that I am of mixed Cherokee black and white make me one?

[CrazyNative4]

cool

[LucidDream]

I live in Tennessee and not too far from Campbell county. There are groups of Melungeons that live out here.

[hamongog2015]

@ladyEulaelie hey, it all depends on who u talk with, as their are many theories. Unfortuantely, no body knows for sure. Also, different Melugeoun families may have intermixed with different groups, s/a indian or white. I believe it is possible they r one of the lost tribes of Israel (don't confuse with "sephardic jews"), which history shows were in America in ancient times. To me, they look sicilian. The Portugese theory also seems to be realilistic. Turks or Afro mixed I doubt.

[ladyEulaelie]

Can anyone tell me anything?

I'm from Texas. I just found out through googling "slave Cornish" Cornish is my surname, that I might be of Melungeon descent.

From what I read, Gowen, Sweat and Cornish were surnames that a Melungeon might have. I'm still not sure about my ancestry. I know my father said that I it was a mixture of black and indian. I was told the indian tribe was (I will spell it like I pronounce it) Mahmu ????