Helen this is nothing more than a personal attack, if you want to debate issues then please leave personal issues out of it.


You wrote:
"I'm not accepting your Newmans Ridge theory. Joanne, you are wrong, the Melungeons desendants are everywhere in America and estimated to be about 200,000"

I don't have a Newman's Ridge THEORY --In 1848 a journalist from Louisville went to Newman's Ridge to find out what a Melungeon was. Dromgoole went there in 1890 followed by hundreds of others through the years looking for answers to who were the Melungeons. If they have EVER went anywhere else I can't find it and apparently you can't either or you would have posted it here. It is not a theory, it is a fact. There are no books about the Melungeons of Georgia, or Texas or anywhere. Before 1990 when people wrote of Melungeons they wrote of Newman's Ridge. If you have something that contradicts this then post it and we can debate it but stop with the personal attacks.

And for the record the Melungeon descendants are not everywhere in America they are everywhere in the WORLD. I have personally corresponded with Gibsons and Collins descendants who live in England and Australia. Furthermore there are more than 200,000 descendants of Gibsons alone, I am sure the number is much higher when you add in COLLINS, MULLINS, GOINS, BUNCH, DENHAM, WILLIAMS, GOODMANS and a few dozen more that married into these families.

Joanne
http://www.geocities.com/ourmelungeons/front.html