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From: "Elizabeth G. Brett" <>
Subject: RE: [Melungeon] Re: Does Everyone Wannabe a Cherokee
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 08:29:05 -0500


Science refers to it as cell memory. Certain memories it seems may be
implanted in our DNA. Much like what we refer to as "animal instinct."

Here's another thought...there was a scientific study recently that said
when a woman becomes pregnant....because of the mixing of blood, DNA etc.
with her blood, she may pick up certain personality traits from the man who
impregnated her.

Interesting thought....

Elizabeth



-----Original Message-----
From:Roger [SMTP:]
Sent:Wednesday, January 31, 2001 10:22 PM
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Subject:Re: [Melungeon] Re: Does Everyone Wannabe a Cherokee

Thought genes are passed down through the generations Lindsey. I always
wondered why I felt so at home on the big old sailing ships such as the USS
Constitution, USS America, HMS Victory, and other ships. I had such a
strong calling to tour these ships when possible. I was also drawn to join
the Navy and felt so at home every we went to the Caribbean. I loved to go
to sea. Never once been sea sick. Had every kind of boat you could think
of and to this day. On those old ships I would touch the various parts of
the rigging and know that I had done it many years ago. When I would go
below I seem to know where everything was and how it would be laid out. I
was so at home on those old ships. I have to visit the beach every year
and
enjoy the ocean. So somewhere back in time I had an ancestor that had to
have been a sailor. You can't convince me otherwise. I believe that is
why
many of us who feel a closeness to the earth must have American Indian
blood
in us. Which would tend to reaffirm the family stories of such. That is
why we feel Melungeon also.

Roger

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike & Lindsey Matherne" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] Re: Does Everyone Wannabe a Cherokee


> I find it one of the most amazing coincidences(?) in my life that for a
> group called the Soc. for Creative Anachronism we had to choose
> 'personas'. That is, pick a favorite time period and through study of
> customs, food, dress, climate, political environment and so on of the
> time period, build a person and play him/her. I chose first a
> Scots/Irish persona of a woman whose father had been an Irish mercenary,
> travelled to Scotland, married there, lost his wife to a fever, and
> moved back to Ireland with the only child of the marriage. I started to
> say my characxter was from the Isle of Sky, because it sounded, I dunno,
> romantic or something. At the last minute, for no reason I can figure, I
> put down her name as O'Mull (of the Island of Mull). Guess what, later
> research turned up that my Scoti ancestors were mainly from the Island
> of Mull. However, they, for some unfathomable and convoluted Celtic
> reasoning, decided to attack the Isle of Sky and captured a small (very
> small) portion of it. And placed their seat of governing there. Wierd?
> My second persona (you get bored with one after you've been in about
> five years. I've been in since 1970.) was that of a Russian Gypsy. I was
> years before building an elaborate persona of her. I could write a huge
> novel about her. Guess what. I discovered one of my Ancestresses listed
> in the 1700's at Fort Natchitoches. She was listed with several children
> as 'un Boheme.' Which is what the French at that time labled Gypsies.
> She married an Indian man named Solomon. Wierd?
>
> There is more to this story but I don't want to bore anyone. Suffice to
> say, I think there really are memories in the genes, even though they
> may come through as only vague feelings or hunches.
>
> Lindsey Love
>
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