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From: "Dennis Maggard" <>
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] Melungeon DNA Study Results
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 10:39:08 -0400
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> ##Dr Jones spoke again today and one of the things he kept repeating was
the Melungeons are not tri-racial, but multi-racial. that the term
> tri-racial isolate is offensive.

It's only offensive because of the dismissive attitude with which it has
been applied. The isolate part is inaccurate. You can say Melungeon
ancestry is multi-racial, not tri-racial if you like, but, as Dr. Jones has
shown, it includes white, black and American Indian ancestry, and if that's
not tri-racial, I don't know what is.

> What you have said above could be exactly
> right, so just use the term multi-racial. Jack asked Dr. Jones if there
> was a time line of the Turkish influence, and the answer was no. The time
> lines have to be established with your family history research.
Therefore,
> to me it is obvious the Turk, for example, could have been 10,000 years
ago
> or 200 years ago.

Hardly. Any component dating back thousands of years would have been
diluted out long ago. The fact his sample show roughly equal amounts of
black, American Indian and this Turkish/Indic component suggests they all
entered the mix at about the same time, give or take a few generations. No
doubt Dr. Jones can't say which came first; the question of when and how are
for historians and genealogists.

Dennis

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