Carole I understand from some of your comments that you don't feel DNA testing is scientifically correct, as yet, however I would suggest that you get the admixture test from AncestrybyDNA to see what your ethnic breakdown may be. If Native American shows up in your profile, that may answer some of the questions you have and point you in the direction of new research avenues.
Aurelia
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From: Carole D. Bryant <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 7:01 AM
Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Hollow Folk
The last sentence really opens another "can of worms." The Native
Americans!
Historians who have attempted to research Virginia families with white and
Indian background know how difficult (and most often impossible) it is to
identify them in census records, to locate their marriage records, or to
find any records of them at all. They are often confused with "free negroes,"
which makes it a challenge to discover anything about them at all.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
Carole
In a message dated 11/27/2012 9:23:26 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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Thanks for putting this link into the discussion. I read about 129 pages
of the Hallow Folks book and was quite disturbed. The articles on the
Shenandoah Park website give more prospective on the issue. One more proof that
people with money and the desire to influence public policy can do it. I
think the park turned out to be a good thing but it would have been better if
a way could have been found to support the people who lived there,too. Of
course, we shouldn't forget that all our land originally belonged to the
Native Americans!
Sent from my iPad
On Nov 26, 2012, at 2:47 PM, Hist Doc <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Alice,
>
> While the names given the three hollows in the book are fictitious,
Audrey Horning points to the author's intention in this :
www.nps.gov/shen/historyculture/mtnsettlement.htm<about:blank>
>
> As a person who has ancestors from all those hollows, I can only say
.... well this may be an inappropriate place to say it! It seems the
government's justification for ruining the lives of so many people was overly
zealous IMO. Thankfully, Horning's work wipes some of dirt from their faces.
>
> R. Burnett Jenkins
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Alice Owens<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: November 26, 2012 11:21 AM
> Subject: [VA-ROOTS] Hollow Folk
>
>
> I have been reading with much interest the discussion regarding "Hollow
Folk." I have also been reading online and making notes. At present I am
about half done. I can't decide whether to continue reading as my feelings
of utter disgust for those authors and those who "bought into this" just
trouble me at length. I have spent considerable time in trying to "proove" any
of this and only today have learned the people and place names are
fictitious! So, for any of you that felt the same way....I think the best place
for it is the trash can! off my soapbox now!
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