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.)
To: Markos33
243 posted on
12/31/2009 3:51:24 PM PST by
don-o
(My son, Ben - Marine Lance Corporal is in Iraq.)
To: Markos33; Mrs. Don-o; don-o; RegulatorCountry
Why, thischere thread ain’t nuthin but a big ol family reunion! LOL
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.
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