If you follow these links that I have listed here you'll notice that there are various theories on who the Melungeons were, and what their ancestry was. This makes the Melungeons all the more interesting, because no one knows for certain their background or origins, (though many have VERY strong opinions on the matter).

Historical sketch, and information about surnames common in the Melungeon community.

An interesting site highlighting racial laws that affected Black and mixed race people, with one letter on the Brass Ankles of South Carolina.

Includes a FAQ about the mixed Mediterranean-Indian heritage of Melungeons, genealogy links, and information on the Melungeon mailing list. By Martha Short

By Nancy Sparks Morrison. Provides information about the major Mediterranean illnesses that are inherited through the Melungeon connection.

Discussion group on Melungeon history and origins.

Shirley Hornbeck's This and That Genealogy Tips, Genealogy Tips on Black Dutch and Irish, Melungeons, Moravians, Pennsylvania Dutch

Discussion of genealogical topics about Melungeon families.

Histories of her family and some notable Melungeons such as Mahala Mullins. Some links. By Brenda Nichols.

A book by Pat Spurlock Elder. Published by Continuity Press. Very controversial and considered unreliable by many researchers. Includes link to her talk at Second Union.

This is the Melungeon information page for the American Local History Network.

Part of Mountain Ties, Martha Short's site for Appalachian genealogy. This list gives many Melungeons sites.

Term paper written by a Turkish student in Colorado.

A theory as to why people of Irish descent like to lay claim to Spanish blood from the Armada. Links the Black Irish to the Melungeons. By Tom Kunesh.

Contact board for a major new effort to organize Melungeons in state, county or regional groups. See this to establish contact with other Melungeons and interested persons in your area. Posted by SKYEAGLE.

How to join the Melungeon Mailing List, from Martha Short's Melungeon Resource Page.

The Black Dutch, German Gypsies, or Chicanere, and their relation to the Melungeons, by Linda D. Griggs.

An article about early contact between Native Americans and Muslims, which contends many Native Americans adopted Islam. This may tie in with the better known Masonic movement among Native Americans.

Six different meanings for the term Black Dutch or Black German.

Family history of 500 African American families who were free in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland and Delaware from the colonial period until about 1820. Gives information on the free Mulattos of Virginia and their role in the formation of the Melungeons and other groups.

Archives at RootsWeb. Choose arranged by subject threads or chronological order, with or without names and dates. Search for names or topics of interest.

Article in Islamic Horizons, which is a reprint of part of Brent Kennedy's book.

GenSeeker at Rootsweb links to Melungeon sites (89 sites)

Some reference to Muslim presence among the Indians which might tie into the cultural observations which have been used as evidence of a Turkish presence in Colonial times. Emphasis is on Mediterranean Muslims, not the much better evidenced contact with the Guinea Coast.

Article from Blue Ridge Country magazine on the First Union of the Melungeons and Brent Kennedy's work.

Jason Adam's paper on the Melungeon struggle for self determination.

Messages on this Rootsweb mailing list. Includes some of the discussion on the Malange area of Angola as an origin of some of the original ancestors of the Melungeons.

A discussion group mainly for Melungeon genealogy.

By John S. Kessler and Donald B. Ball. Paper on the Melungeons of Carmel, Ohio, presented at Third Union, posted on the Melungeon Heritage Association webpage. Good history of Melungeons and it gives name distributions.

Message from Wayne Winkler of the Melungeon Heritage Association about the meeting at Vardy this Summer. Vardy is on Blackwater Creek, behind Newman's Ridge from Sneedville, TN, site of Melungeon mission school.

This society is trying to preserve the Vardy Melungeon site on Blackwater Creek in Hancock County, TN. Museum in the old Melungeon school. Mahala Mullins' cabin brought to the site from Newman's ridge.

Information on families with the name Gowen, including variations. This includes the most common Melungeon name, Goins, Goin, Goings, Going, and others. Search the newsletters.

A site which has a very long list of other information on the Melungeons plus a recounting of some of the older stories about Melungeon history.

1948 article based on Census research on Indian and mixed race groups of eastern U.S. Description, location and common names given for many groups, including the Melungeons and Redbones. By William Harlen Gilbert. 32 pages.

List of Melungeon surnames. Register your family.

Historical information on this group, Saponi Indians who migrated widely and contributed many ancestors to modern Melungeons, Cherokee, African-Americans and Whites in the Southeast and Appalachians. Perhaps the principal Indian source of the Melungeons.

Shalacy is a 13 year old country/folk entertainer. She sang her "Melungeon Song" at the Melungeon Third Union. Site has links and her school report on the Melungeons.

Gives links to many sites, including the articles on the new DNA study.

A site dedicated to the folk heroine of the Melungeons with a photograph of her.

Here is a site from Melungeons determined to resist scientific and historical research and maintain their old legends as truth.

Description of what is known and unknown about these people of Appalachia. Includes some traditional versions of their origins and description of physical characteristics.

An introductory site on the Melungeons, with a list of common surnames. By Nancy Sparks Morrison

Bill Fields' personal web site including the archives of Under One Sky, newsletter of the Southeastern Kentucky Melungeon Information Exchange. Information on Melungeon Heritage.

A definition of the term Melungeon with an attempt to describe who would be included in the group.

Listings of books, journals, bibliographies, and other research resources, including links, provided by the Appalachian State University Libraries in Boone, North Carolina.

Melungeon research, family searches and other information is freely exchanged in a friendly forum.

Established to document and preserve the cultural legacy of mixed-ancestry peoples in the southern Appalachians. Articles, links, and information about periodic Melungeon conventions known as "unions".

Site where Melungeons can post pictures of their family for others to see.

A group dedicated to investigating the history and origins of the Redbones, also known as the Louisiana Melungeons.

Book on American Indians and the origin of the Melungeons, by Karlton Douglas.

This Group is for Goins From Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Everyone with Goins ancestry (all spellings and areas) is welcome.

A discussion group for anyone interested in people described as Black Dutch or Black German.

Description of several groups which are called Melungeon. Stresses the need to have a definition broad enough to cover all of them, by Mike Nassau.

Patrick Minges' articles on Cherokee history, with an emphasis on race and religion. Discusses the racial mixing which contributed much to eht Melungeons.

A journal of Melungeon Research, put on internet by Nancy Morrison. Includes some classic literature like the articles of Wil Allen Dromgoole.

A site dedicated to research on the NE TN and SW VA Melungeon communities. Information on DNA research on this area. Note the link to information on Jack Goins' book, a prime source for people connected to the Goins name or Hancock County, TN.