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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Beechland: Oral History Versus Historical Records
This paper was originally published in the Lost Colony Research Group newsletter in November, 2011. The original had colored tables which did not copy correctly to the blog. Apparently multiple highlighted colors are not supported. To see the original colored district tables, please … Continue reading
Posted in History, North Carolina
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Croatan Barber
The Barber family of Hyde County is known to be of Native heritage, specifically Mattamuskeet. The Hyde County marriages have been neither transcribed in their entirety nor published. Some are on the Hyde County rootsweb site. Only three Barbour marriages … Continue reading
Posted in Mattamuskeet
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Minority Ancestry and DNA
I originally wrote this article for the Melungeon Historical Society, but regardless of the target audience, the message is the same about how to use and interpret genetic information related to the search for minority admixture ancestors. Hat tip to Jack … Continue reading
Posted in Melungeon
3 Comments
Following the Croatoan
This article is reprinted from the July 2011 Lost Colony Research Group newsletter. In 2010 when the North Carolina Society of Historians awarded the Lost Colony Research Group the prestigious Malcolm Fowler Award, their question was why we weren’t following … Continue reading
Posted in Croatoan
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The Legend of Chief Kinnekeet
Historian David Stick, in 2005, prior to his death in 2009, had begun to write a series of biographies of “Outer Banker” families. Unfortunately, he discovered a computer virus on is system which wiped out all of his work. He … Continue reading
Posted in Hatteras, History
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The Tuscarora Eye
Dr. Arwin Smallwood is an associate professor of history at the University of Memphis. He is also of mixed-blood Tuscarora heritage. His focus on Bertie County history, where his family is from, is natural, and we are all beneficiaries of … Continue reading
Posted in Tuscarora
5 Comments
Pamunkey Indians of Virginia
This article about the Pamunkey Indians was found at http://www.bigorrin.org/archive73.htm and was originally published by the Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution in 1894. To the best of my knowledge it is in the public domain, so it is being reprinting it … Continue reading
Posted in Pamunkey
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The Chowan Indians
Thanks to Fletcher Freeman for contributing part of the following information. In addition I used resources found in The American Indian in North Carolina (1947) by the Rev. Douglas Rights hosted at http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jmack/algonqin/rights.htm and the book Villany Often Goes Unpunished, … Continue reading
Posted in Chowan
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Who Am I Related To? – Using Family Tree DNA’s Tools to Compare Within Projects
While this may not seem like a Native topic, it is. I am the volunteer administrator or co-administrator of several DNA projects that are either focused on or include people with Native heritage. The goal of DNA testing is to … Continue reading
Posted in DNA
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Cape Fear, Machapunga, Coree, Tuscarora and Mattamuskeet Indians
James Sprunt, born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1846, was an entrepreneurial cotton merchant, author, philanthropist and a major figure in Wilmington, North Carolina from the time of the Civil War until his death in 1924. Active in the N.C. Literary … Continue reading
Posted in Cape Fear, Coree, Machapunga, Mattamuskeet, Tuscarora
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