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To: Mrs. Don-o; don-o
"I's tickled by that use of the word "race." My husband's family was mixed-race, four races in fact: the Anglo1-Saxons2 and the the Scots3-Irish4. (Actually 5, 'cause beinst they're from East Tennessee, they've got some Churkey in there too.)"

Same here. Except I have one more that you guys have
probably never heard of, Melungeon.

242 posted on 12/31/2009 3:47:28 PM PST by Semper Mark ("Brevity is the soul of wit." Besides, I only have so much tagline space.)
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To: Markos33

Sure. Heard of the Melungeons all my life.

http://www.lib.utk.edu/news/archives/events/002340.html


243 posted on 12/31/2009 3:51:24 PM PST by don-o (My son, Ben - Marine Lance Corporal is in Iraq.)
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To: Markos33; Mrs. Don-o; don-o; RegulatorCountry

Why, thischere thread ain’t nuthin but a big ol family reunion! LOL


247 posted on 12/31/2009 4:19:26 PM PST by gardengirl
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To: Markos33
Same here. Except I have one more that you guys have probably never heard of, Melungeon.

Oh, so you're a real ridgerunner, then. One of my fifth great grandmothers was a Sizemore. Ring any bells, lol?

That family goes all the way back to James Cittie, and has legendary claims of descent from the half-Spanish brother of Powhatan.

256 posted on 12/31/2009 5:29:47 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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