@nicolemarchsingh: This is the part that always gets people: Melungeon history isn’t a “mystery group,” it’s the story of early America that most textbooks refused to print. Before laws tried to separate everyone into neat boxes, real families were already living across those boundaries; Europeans, Africans, and Native people forming communities long before the U.S. existed. That’s why their DNA looks like a historical crossroads in miniature. If your ancestry looks “mixed in a way you can’t quite explain,” or your family comes from those same mountain counties, you might be carrying a story that survived every attempt to erase it. And honestly? That’s worth digging into. #Melungeon #genetics #dna #Appalachia #AmericanHistory
Fiona Apple is a famous Melungeon. Do you know of others ?
2025-11-18 20:57:57
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Nicole Proctor :
I’m melungeon from Southern Maryland.
2025-11-29 02:51:23
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Adris🇨🇴 :
So... The USA could've been as mixed as LatinAmerica but the got obsessed with classifications
2025-11-17 01:34:04
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Victorian.GhostChild :
I, a Puerto Rican, sitting here watching the whole thing like “yes how WOULD I know?”
2025-11-16 22:26:50
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Taylor :
Wondering if my Nan might be melungeon. Very tan skin, dark/curly hair, gray eyes, etc. We’re from rural WV. I’ll probably never know for sure lol
2025-11-20 16:33:06
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catherine g :
My grandmother was a Mullins from West Virginia but my DNA does not show any African or Native American blood.
2025-11-16 02:15:39
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Cait💙 :
Melungeons are probably what happened to the lost colony of Roanoke. They moved inland & integrated with the natives. Later they welcomed other races as they arrived too since they already had been welcomed themselves.
2025-11-17 22:11:28
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Eryn Anitavi :
So… maybe also linked to Roanoke? 🤔
2025-11-16 06:46:55
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Cate907 :
There are more classic surnames then that, I don't remeber them all, but the Sisemores are from Kentucky. We were white passing by the mid 1850s, but we have Native DNA and historical records describing my ancestors as blue eyed Indians, "Wild men" etc.
2025-11-18 21:53:38
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Cerra 🏳️🌈🪩 :
I’m fascinated. My grandmother was always told she was German and Native American, but I have zero native DNA. My ancestors are all from Appalachia (both sides) and one old photo I found of my great great grandparents… gma (Kentucky born) looks very melungeon and gpa (Oklahoma born in Creek territory) definitely a white man.
2025-11-21 01:57:28
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AsiaoftheBayou :
My grandma grew up in north East Tennessee. The road In front of her house was the state line between Tennessee and Virginia. This is my grandma with her parents. My grandma really didn’t talk about any family history
2025-11-18 03:39:32
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y2kfatgurl on Depop :
My mom grew up in a coal mining township in Virginia and told me a story growing up about how she had a high school class assignment to create a family tree and the questions she asked her family members to answer got her beat with a belt 😭 she always thought there must have been a secret POC ancestor but this has me thinking 🤔
2025-11-16 11:03:58
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Carpedopa :
Nicole does know ball. This is my family history. I'm a Collins from Sneedville through Floyd Co to Pike co Ky. 23 and me is German, Scottish, Irish, French, West African, Iberian, and Bengal.
2026-03-10 05:52:32
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3suki_blue3 :
My family was heavy into genealogy so I know we were traced back to Appalachia 5 generations back. My DNA came back 1% Bangladeshi, 1% sub Saharan African, 1% Native American & the rest British Isles, German, Finnish.
2025-11-16 07:58:47
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Alexina-Kateri Ida K :
I find this incredibly interesting as a member of the Manitoba Métis nation in Canada. The red river Métis are a distinct indigenous group, born of a marriage between indigenous peoples and European fur trappers in the red river valley. We are people with our own language, foods, clothing, traditions, dance, and music. Our ancestry traces way back to this certain place and this certain time, not simply being of mixed heritage. Thanks for sharing this, it’s fascinating.
2025-12-29 13:21:20
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savannahmiller1282 :
Interesting. This sounds a lot like my dad’s family. However they don’t have the classic surnames.
2025-11-17 12:01:50
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karenlynnie :
doing an ancestry. Riddle. Mullato , Melungeon , Sapony. 1 from Holland as 1st know in the usa in my family tree
2026-02-07 06:02:49
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_latasia :
Vanover, Lawson, Collins, ect all my sure names. still living in SWVA 🖤
2025-11-18 13:45:54
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Dani Lute :
im almost certain my mom's maternal side is melungeon
2026-04-18 18:45:30
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Teresa D :
Pretty sure my family is Melungeon
2026-02-21 16:16:22
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Elok5 :
I'm a Collins with evidence of Gibson via marriage 🥰
2026-08-05 11:11:27
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Stoned mashed potato :
I have all of it except subsaharan African I have Northern Africa scotch Irish Iberian and Mediterranean I also have dna matches with every core surname I recently found out we thought only Cherokee and Dutch lol
2026-08-09 01:41:25
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user4676781173456 :
I am researching my dna. I’m starting to believe I may be melungeon. I have European (Irish, German, Hungarian, Portuguese, Italian/maltese). I’m 8.3% sub Saharan African, but I have no Native American show up, but I have trace ancestry in southeast Asian.
2026-06-27 15:41:10
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OhSusannah :
Did the DNA and yup. I'm adopted, so found it in my search.
2026-04-12 09:34:58
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JordanCollins 85 :
👏 Need more Info on that website please
2025-11-20 01:02:50
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