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  1. May 31, 2017 · WHO WERE THE FIRST MELUNGEONS & WHERE DID THEY LIVE. As administrator of the Core Melungeon DNA project with Family Tree DNA, we receive many join request from folks who have accepted many of the so called Melungeon traits, the knots and other physical handicaps and diseases, all of which is totally false.

  2. Mar 8, 2021 · Jack Goins, who has researched Melungeon history for about 40 years and was the driving force behind the DNA study, said his distant relatives were listed as Portuguese on an 1880 census. Yet he was taken aback when he first had his DNA tested around 2000.

  3. Aug 8, 2012 · Wayne Winkler, Jack Goins (pictured above) and Roberta Estes were honored to be able to present and record the first, and possibly the only, comprehensive Melungeon-focused series that includes an introduction to Melungeons, their history and heritage, their migrations and the results of the landmark DNA study, Melungeons, A Multi-Ethnic ...

  4. May 25, 2012 · Jack Goins, who has researched Melungeon history for about 40 years and was the driving force behind the DNA study, said his distant relatives were listed as Portuguese on an 1880 census. Yet he...

  5. Nov 25, 2014 · Both my Minor and Goins ancestors claimed to be Portuguese on the 1880 census of Hancock County, Tennessee. And was very disappointed when none of the haplogroups showed Portugal. The latest bad news came recently with the regional SNP J-Z640.

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  6. Oct 16, 2013 · That’s what happened to Jack Goins, Hawkins County, Tn. Archivist and founder of the Melungeon Core DNA project. Jack, a Melungeon descendant through several ancestors, expected that his Y paternal haplogroup would be either European or Native American, based on oral family history, but….

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  8. Roberta J. Estes, Jack H. Goins, Penny Ferguson, Janet Lewis Crain Abstract The Melungeons were a group of individuals found primarily in Hawkins and Hancock Counties of Tennessee and in the far southern portion of Lee County, Virginia which borders Hawkins and Hancock counties in Tennessee. At one time isolated geographically on and near Newman's