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Howdy!
One of my early pandemic projects was genealogy and developing a family tree for my daughter who was born in August 2020.
My family is most likely NOT Melungeon, but our paths cross with them a little bit. When it doesn't distract from my major work, I've taken some steps to research them, so this article was timely! What we are is Dominicker, which is very similar to Melungeon in that it's a triracial isolate. Both of my paternal grandparents had ancestors who came from the Dominicker community of West Florida. My 3rd great-grandfather's brothers both moved to Louisiana after the Civil War, where they absorbed into the Red Bones. Some moved to California where some even passed into "full" whiteness.
The past almost three years has been a wild ride in terms of what genealogical research we found! I am eligible for DAR membership through a few different folks on my dad's side. I found some great photos of the village my FIL's parents immigrated from, leaving much of their family who later died in the Holocaust. Given some documentation I stumbled upon while going through photos with my MIL, my husband and his sisters were able to apply for UK citizenship, which should arrive any day now.
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