Researchers Discuss Origins of Melungeon Heritage at Annual Event

[carolinayellowdog]

As a participant in this event I commend Olivia Caridi for "getting the facts right" as WCYB channel 5 promises.

[GentryDixon]

1. My extended family is of Melungeon heritage.

I found in doing my ancestry research about the Goin family line. The patriarch, Thomas Goin was a Revoluntary War veteran, and a man of some means, but it did not matter when his grandson Elijah Goin was accused of being a mulatto by his daughter's brother-in-law.

The case for slander sent to the Tennessee Supreme Court. Read more..http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/Melungeon/2003-03/1047058099

[carolinayellowdog]

2. Your username has always reminded me of the documentary Melungeon Voices

The filmmaker was named Dixon, the cinematographer Gentry.

http://www.melungeonvoices.com/

[GentryDixon]

3. Interesting.

My name does come from my genealogy research, just not that limb of the tree.