His Grandmother Said Melungeon. His DNA Said Africa.
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His family said Melungeon. Portuguese blood. Cherokee blood. Then Jack Goins tested his direct paternal line and found out his own 1880 census record had once said "Portuguese," before someone crossed it out and wrote "W," for white. His Y-DNA came back African. Not Portuguese. Not Cherokee. So in 2005, Goins co-founded the Core Melungeon DNA Project with geneticist Roberta Estes, testing the old Melungeon surnames, Collins, Gibson, Goins, Minor, Bunch, tied to Newman's Ridge, Tennessee for generations. The 2012 peer-reviewed results split the Collins family alone into four unrelated genetic lines. One family, the Sizemores, carried a documented Native American paternal line one single marriage away from Jack's own family tree, and completely invisible to the DNA test that was supposed to find it. This video covers the real genealogy and genetic history behind the word "Melungeon": where the Portuguese origin story actually came from, why claiming it was a matter of legal survival un
Tags: Melungeon, Genealogy, Family Tree, DNA Genealogy, Melungeon DNA, Y DNA, Genetic Genealogy, Family Tree DNA, Appalachian History, Newmans Ridge
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