Virginia recently celebrated a milestone anniversary. Four hundred years ago on July 30, the body that became the Virginia House of Delegates first met at Jamestown. In the case of Jamestown, we can ...
View Slideshow KINGSPORT, Tennessee -- A small population from Appalachia may be linked to an ancient tribe in India, according to a long-awaited DNA study. Kevin Jones, a biologist at the University ...
The Melungeon Heritage Association met in Hillsborough, NC recently to discuss an upcoming conference exploring their identity. Andrew Harris Jr was an attendee. VPM News Focal Point is available to ...
Wayne Winkler was 12 years old and flipping through a local newspaper in Hancock County, Tennessee, the first time he learned of a group of people known as the Melungeons. His parents had moved to ...
Response continues to roll in on a series of reports on the marvelous Melungeons. A recent Associated Press story in The Roanoke Times caught Terrie Futrell’s attention about “Cheddar Man,” whose ...
Wayne Winkler was 12 years old and flipping through a local newspaper in Hancock County, Tennessee, the first time he learned of a group of people known as the Melungeons. His parents had moved to ...
credit Kristen Philipkoski Libby Killebrew, geneologist and Melungeon activist at the Fourth Union of the Melungeons. Killebrew donated her DNA for the study and helped recruit other Melungeons.