I’m Melungeon by way of 3 of my fathers grandparents & my mothers grandfather. I did the DNA testing. It showed 24% African & 29% Native American. The rest was British, French, & German. No Portuguese was present. I’m sure some people have it in their tests, but not everyone. My Melungeon family came from North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, & West Virginia...so wherever some Melungeon are picking up that ancestry isn’t regional either. Our country is wonderfully diverse!!

Thank you for the video. Hearing the word Geechee took me back to childhood. We were always taught we were part Geechee or Portyghee. We even had an imaginary friend called Mr.Geechees who we believed watched over our family. My great grandmother made sure that even her great grand kids would learn Turkish, Portuguese, and Spanish words, culinary skills, and social customs. I know very little about the possible Muslim heritage since most Melungeons were devout Christians.

I am Berber (Moor), Egyptian, Banjara Gypsy, Arawak Native American, and Spanish/Portuguese (my great-grandmother said we were Spanish , but i didn't believe her until I got the test. She also said were weren't Cherokee which was proven true, also).

I'm melungeon through Bollings and proud of my heritage.

SUBANALLAH , THIS IS AMAZING AS A TURK , I ALWAYS NEW I HAD A CONNECTION WITH VIRGINIA AND ITS NATIVES

I just learned about this in my ancestry last night. I could not sleep. My was weeping because I thought I knew my ancestry by the black history that was taught...only to find out that I am of Spanish, Portuguese, Berber, Morisco, and Native American. My ppl went to the Caribbean first then came to the Carolinas. I knew that I had Jewish/ Hebrew ancestry but did not know that I had Muslim ancestry. I am not African American I will no longer call that. My ancestry showed connection to the Lumbee Indians and I couldn’t understand. My DNA matched Moriscos so now I definitely know who I am.

ive always been told that my maternal family is melungeon, and as a recent convert to Islam, i found this video to be so enlightening...even mentioned my familys last name

Great to hear that my people are not totally swept under the rug and our history is being brought into the light.

Greetings. I am from South Carolina and 2 independent DNA tests confirmed that this video is about my family. The other natives here (or brought here) were Arawak (Lucayan/Timucya) during the Yamasee War. Which is my Native American ancestry is from. To the poster about Christian Melungeons, Christianity was the religion prior to Islam in addition to indigenous ones (Egyptian, Hindu, etc). This is why many Christians in the south have a mixed form of Christianity. Not everyone converted. Also, many did convert to Christianity after they got here. My family names include Jackson, Adams, Moore, and many others. I have Gullah/Geechie on my mother's side and my oldest daughter's mother is Geechie. Thanks for the video.

My mother's father was adopted. He never knew anything of his family. Well many years later, my mother did her father's family history. And found his family comes from Melungeons. His family came from Sneedville TN. Snake Hallor.His last name was Young. He is a descendant from Haley mahala Mullins...I'm still doing research and WOW‼️.. THIS VIDEO BLOWS MY MIND💯♥️‼️...

@syr74 There is many families that show Jewish also..in Perry County, Clay, Leslie, and Pike County KY

Just found out I have African and Native American DNA. Specifically North African and Nigerian. My family is from North Carolina. Glad I took the DNA test.

I was told I was Cherokee but I always knew my papaw was more than indigenous. I took a test and found out I'm melungeon my whole life I knew deep down 🖤

Thank you brother. 💯

My family is melungeon on both sides but my mother was a white/Christian witch and father a Rosicrucian..

I’m melungeon :) this was very informative! Thank you!!

@fldsthedrummer He does leave out several names though. Shepard, Fields, Sizemore, Lawson, Begley, Bray..those are the Eastern KY Melungeons..

A friend of mine posted this. He's from N.W.Africa. It's in about 2 or 3 parts. I had a genetic test done from DNA Tribes and the results came back as almost exclusively Morrocan Berber and shows no hits for sub-saharan African. This is surprising to me because I look 100% black African. So I began to research and discovered your channel along with others. (cont'pt2)

Excellent video. Thanks man

Moorish-American History. 💙🙏🏾

@N8ZYT I also live here in Wise and russell county. Most melungeons I know (including myself) around here consider ourselves white.

I’m Melungeon through Gibson and Collins

You just named 3 of my surnames Mullen, Nash and Robinson and my people are from Carolina. My Grandfather was A Mullen my grandmother was A Nash and my father name is Robinson. Wow!

My family in Tennessee are mulungeon. Bunch family, would have to pull up my research but from memory my great great+ grandfather was John Bunch who left Scotland, not sure where they were from before, landed in VA and they were discriminated against because they had olive colored skin so they their ways into the mountains of Tennessee and settled with blacks and natives.

Facts!

How do you know all of this ?.. My family is from Michigan, .

pt4) Get this: the Hasinai had long cultivated important food stuffs such as seed and plant amaranth, potato, and sunflower seed long before corn, beans, and squash were introduced into the Hasinai country from the south. Hasinai also planted and cultivated pumpkin, DOMESTIC GRAPE, black berries, pecan, and other comestibles. (Portuguese word for their wine grape is the Mourisco (grape).) hmm...Moroccan Indians? Maybe!

@sunmanpatoo He is right...My family shows a high percentage of Turk decent, and all of my family names are on the surname list. We have the Bump on the back of our heads, shovel teeth, aisian eyefold, and all of the mediteranean features. My family also moved around, changed their surnames, etc. We was also told that we was Irish / Scottish and Indian, yet we dont look nothing like those people. This is very, very true. My family was pushed from North Carolina to Tenn, then to Eastern KY.

As it is written in Sura 3v3: "It is He Who sent down to thee (step by step), in truth, the Book, confirming what went before it; and He sent down the Law (of Moses) and the Gospel (of Jesus) before this, as a guide to mankind, and He sent down the criterion (of judgment between right and wrong)" As it is written in Acts 9v15, which was written by the same author of the Gospel of Jesus According to Luke previously mentioned in Sura 3v3: "The Lord said to him, “Go, for he (Saul/Paul) is a chosen instrument of Mine, to bear My name before the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel" As it is written in 1 Timothy 1v3-7, which was written by Paul previously mentioned in Acts 9v15,: "I urge you ... instruct certain men not to teach strange doctrines, nor to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which give rise to mere speculation rather than furthering the administration of God which is by faith. But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. For some men, straying from these things, have turned aside to fruitless discussion, wanting to be teachers of the Law, even though they do not understand either what they are saying or the matters about which they make confident assertions." Following the chain of thoughts there: 1) The Quran says that Allah sent the Gospel to mankind, which implies that the Gospels should be read and respected by Muslims 2) The same author of the Gospel of Luke says in Acts that the Lord called Saul who later was named Paul to be His instrument, which implies that things said by Paul should be considered to have weight and serious consideration since he was an instrument of God 3) Paul warns that certain men have strayed from a good conscience and a sincere faith and they teach weird things as shown by their fruitless discussions about myths and endless genealogies, and although they speak with confidence, whether they realize it or not, they in fact do not know what they are talking about. 4) Conclusion: consider all these things and decide for yourself whether or not you should listen to this person

How can I find out if my family is Melungeon? My Grandfather Dewey Collins from Eastern Tn and a Henry Collins I believe is my Great grandfather. I was told my family is Melungeons, Anyone with good info please contact me. The Melungeons also lived in E. Tn Sneedville, My aunt has the hair texture of African American. My mom had olive skin tone, high cheek bones, pug nose. I will be proud to be Melungeon ,Thank You

My last name is bell .. i kno nothing about that side, i've been looking up Long, Ross, Trice, McHaney, Johnson, and Patton .. and im not stopping

When you say Moriscos, do you mean biracial Moors or Christianized Moors?

I am a Melungion [DNA verified]. I find it incredibly interesting that the Muslims find interest in us.

So the most obvious question would be, if this is a true claim, why then are the Melungeons Christian? Even as far back at the 1700's, a traveling pastor was surprised to find these dark skinned people, who had no church, were well versed in Christianity. But if these claims are true, then it is obvious that in the early history of the Melungeons, they changed from being Muslim, to Christian. Maybe that was the real reason they had to leave their original homes to begin with...

West European west African, native american, portugese here

whoa. this is explaining a lot about my DNA results....lol

African presence can be seen in Louisiana there are lot of places with African/Al-Arabiy/Moorish sounding names linking them> There's a Togo Island, La compatible to Togo, Africa. Tribes of La. (Koroa)| Koro tribe(Ghana); Cameron Parish, La|Cameroon,Africa; Arabi, La;|Saudia Arabia; Angola,La;| Angola,Africa; Algiers, La|Algiers,Africa; Dugdemona River(Grambling-Simsboro, La)| Dogon Tribe/Moshi-Dagomba(Lang),Africa; Hasaini(Caddo)Tribe,E.Texas|Hassaniya Arabic (lang); OFO La tribe| Oso,Wolof

I am a Black Nash from Alabama. A small rural town in Alabama that didn't have slavery.

In 2006, my family put in a lot of effort to make a book about our history and heritage. Our main ancestor was a German who came to Virginia during the revolutionary war. The British were buying troops from Germany (Hessians to be precise) to help them in the war. Germany was tricking them by gathering men who were homeless or weren't contributing, they rounded them up, put a uniform on them and made money off them, my ancestor was single, homeless and jobless. We gathered many names of ancestors and studied their surnames. My great uncle, Samuel, had the idea of a DNA test, hoping to learn more. He and my grandfather scheduled DNA tests at separate labs, Samuel living in Missouri and my grandfather living in Virginia, to see what results they would get. The tests determined we were a match for Melungeon.

To Compare: Portugal - R1b = 59.9% Melungeon - R1b = 47.5% Portugal - R1a = 2% Melungeon - R1a =7.5% Portugal - I1 = 6.1% Melungeon- I1 = 3.75% Portugal - I2 = 1.5% Melungeon - I2 =1.25% Portugal - E-M35 (E1b1b) = 12.5% Melungeon - eb1b = 2.5%

@porkinwitz my grandmother was as well, and we were brought up Christian. But there's a thing called assimilation where people are forced to live and do as the rest of the world around them are doing. Native Americans had to do it as well. Just because one is born into a Muslim culture does not mean they have to remain in it. They're are Muslims who convert to Christianity and vice versa.

where are your Bells from? im tryna find roots lol

is the disease Sarcoidosis? I'm not sure what you are saying.

@Scott B Think before you speak. Hes inly pointing out that,Melungeons come from Moorish background and Moors was majority muslim. Now whether they came here and pick up other religions is on the drscendants. Mainly because Americans where not to friendly with Islam do they converted. If melungeons share Portugal dna and are dark with asian,black and white feature then they are Berber because Berbers look just like that.

@fldsthedrummer ooh1 can you post some family pictures? Iwould love to see if my family looks similar. We know almost nothing about my Dad's biological Father's family. We always wondered where the curly black hair and Jewish looking nose came from. His last name is Robinson!

Latest comprehensive study published by University College London on Portugal Y-Haplogroups. By Beleza, et al., 2006. Contributors: Universidade de Porto, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Oxford University. The new statistics are: R1b = 59.9% R1a = 2% I1 = 6.1% I2 = 1.5% E-M35 (E1b1b) = 12.5% J1 = 3.4% J2 = 7.0% G = 5.5% K = 1.6% Other = 0.5%

Well if you are a berber, what is the definition of Berber. Better yet check out the ETYMOLOGY of the word. You know the "ORIGINS" of words. If the word did not originate in Africa; then where did it come from and what people used it first and who were they talking about? While you checking out the ETYMOLOGY of Berber, check out Moors also. Also check out "The Two Moors". In 1661, Rembrandt painting of two Africans, or Moors as they were called in the 17th century.

@KushaDwipa Thats true

Punchian, I am Melungeon. In a DNA project they traced my family roots to Morocco. Berber for sure! It is amazing. And we all should never forget...at one time, we were all African. Been proven, it feels good to know where I came from. I am not proud to be any ethnicity, because I did nothing to achieve it. But I feel blessed to be who I am, and know where my (our) people began. I am an American with a history rich in different cultures, originating from the cradle of civilization, Africa!

Thank you...I am a bell Katie and chas (Charles)

This is an important piece of history.

30% of the slaves for example were Muslims. It was either beaten out of us or forbade to practice all together. Even Native Tribes that were taken into slavery at one point were forbidden to practice their traditional religions and forced into Christianity. Everywhere a Fort went up then came the Priest giving everybody a so-called "good-Christian" name. Point is Most of our original religions were lost

Incredible history intertwinhbg all our racial, ethnic & religioua/spiritual identies. I know there were not just Portuguese / Getchee & Spainish Muslims who were expelled & as a text fled to the New World along with their Jewish brothers. Sadly, many of the Iberian Jews who escaped as conversos in public but privately kept ' the faith of Moses' In private owned slaves, a few had plantations in the areas of the south and all over the New World into the Caribbean, Mexico, and the rest of Central & South America. Back in the interiors of many southern states they found ancient Israeli coins with Hebrew letters on them. No joke.

My name is Monica. My mother is melungeon { Catholic} . My father is English and Acadian { Catholic}.. The discovery of St. Augustine Florida by Catholic Spain.

He's not trying to get you to convert. He's only sharing the recorded history of our contact. A lot of history has not been revealed. I'm of mixed heritage and my brother suffers from Sarcoidosis. Our great great grandfather came from that area to Louisiana. Even Columbus reports in his Journal of having seen structures that reminded him of mosque in the Carribean. There are the Turk & Caicos Islands in the Carrib. This is crucial information

PHIPPS IS A MAJOR MELONGEON NAME LINE ALSO

Moorish History🇲🇦❤️👑

and the mullins family. the mullins was a irish family...irish jim was the head of the mullins family...

Does anyone have the melungeon bump on the back of the head?

You may wish to learn the history of portuguese.

Some of these names may have been given, at the time of the slave trade in the US, when ships loaded with slaves, came to, or passed these places, and the names given to them, as representative of the slaves origins. On some islands, and ports, slaves were taken off ship and kept for a time, to be made healthy, before the auction block. By doing this, it increased their value at auction.

I’m Melungeon and you left a lot of important names out like Driggers, Sweat and Huff. Geechie has nothing to do with being Melungeon either. Our DNA is from Africa, mostly Nigeria.

Christian colonization enforced their own religious laws labeling any other religions/faiths/traditions as evil and sometimes punishable by death, and as a result creates a harmful environment that would push those who are harmed by those laws to seek shelter and community with each other, Muslims, Jews, Irish/Celt pagans, Native Indigenous peoples & African people who practice their original spiritual traditions, etc. Such important history

Melungeons don't have anything to do with being Muslim. I have several advanced degrees and I study Melungeon culture. the Africans who made up the ancestors of The Melungeons were most likely Christianised by the Portugeuse before leaving Africa. There are several good reasons to assume this and no evidence of an Islamic connection at all. In fact there is more evidence of Jewish connections to early Melungeons.

the melungeon dna results shows 75 percent match to the portugesse dna projects

Tolliver also talifero

exactly right....portugesse are mixed european and black. and the melungeons said they was portugesse...and if you match the dna of the melungeons with portugesse...they match 75 percent.

10% truth 90% wishful thinking.

Pt2) My test also shows that my genetic profile is shared with diaspora Brazilians and Afro-Carribean (but not African Americans), which to me means most of those people would also show similar links to Morocco. Through research it seems when the moors lost Granada, they also lost Morocco to arabs (fall of Marinids) and had no where to go so many went to the Americas where they were enslaved later on. Does this sound about right? cont'3)

google melungeon dna..and look for the results on family tree by jack goins.....then google portugesse dna... even the same family tree dna company has a portugesse dna project as well...and look how they match nearly perfect.

D N A does not lie

"Passing" can be a funny word. Lost of people deemed as "passing for White" are often of predominate European heritage. Personally, I thought Ava and Elvis were just white. Ethnically, I don't find anything ambiguous about racial appearance.

I maybe Melungeon then. This is interesting. So would my DNA testing tell me? I'm actually curious now.

My ancestors were Melungeon. You haven't a clue of what you are talking about.

depends who you are calling 'black'...are you using skin color, looks or dna? many families were tested for the samples with pretty much same results. also remember that the portugesse lived under the moors (africans and arabs) for almost 800 years. this is why they dont look like other scandinavians today which is where the goths came from in the 5th century.

@shifragri Very true, however, every once-in-a-while one of us will be darker for no reason. My brother has jet black hair and is darker than the rest of us.

Just because Lincoln's mom was a Melungeon, that doesn't mean she was a Muslim. Everyone in that part of the country was Christian's. Many are a protestant group called Baptists. There are also lots of Pentacostal's there.

Genetics is DNA....google Portugese DNA project, there is about 8 of them...and sorry but the DNA genetics tests shows mixed race.

Your forgetting the Reeves family lol

@mrghastly Agreed

Mon fathers side. Is bell. ❤

I don't he's telling you follow Islam. I think he is just saying that "White English" were not the first people to come to America. I have read historians who say this same thing, and they are White.

the melungeon dna results (found online) shows 75 percent match to the portugesse dna projects (found online).

I do not know if the Melungeons were Islamic but they were definitely a mixed race people. They had last names like Collins and Gibson, which would suggest Welsh ancestry. Some English and some Portuguese. Other last names associated with this group are: Bowling (Bolin), Chavis (Chavez), Epps, Evans, Fields, Francisco, Gill, Goins, Goodman, Minor, Mise, Mullins, Osborn(e), Phipps, Reeves (Rives, Rieves, Reaves), Ridley (Riddle), Rodrigues, Stowers, Vanover, Williams and Wise. I'm not sure what this guy's motives are, but Islamic faith is a choice. Also, if he was honest about the research, he would state that most scholars concur that this group of people had a diverse ancestry. That of European, Native American and African. Yet, not the same area of Africa that most African Americans ancestry stems from today. It also depends on what part of the country they settled into in the latter years of their first arrival. As many as 200 ethnic groups have been identified as Melungeon. They are found all the way from New York to East Texas and in states in between. This is why Europeans who came into contact with the Melungeons were very confused about their appearance and their origins. They didn't live with Native American tribes prior to English settlement, but they did trade with them. Suggesting that they probably had cousins amongst the group. From my research, the Native Americans would state to the early European settlers that the Melungeons way of life was very different than that of their own. When the Melungeons were denied the right to vote and own property in one area, they came with guns drawn and protested that they were of European decent. Either way, this is a very unique group of people that we do not know much about, but are very relevant concerning American history. To claim that they were all of one faith is not correct. I am a little envious of those who can say that one of their ancestral lines connects to the Melungeons. How interesting!

Misinformation lol you're leaving out too much information. Melungeons are primarily of west african, virginia native and french-german/english-dutch origin. Alot of us have found our backgrounds and have done the paper trail. No connection to Mediterranean people whatsoever. Melungeons were merely descendants of free people of color and trail of tears escapees who fled to the Appalachian to integrate into white culture. Abraham Lincoln was not a melungeon. He was of irish nd British ancestry ONLY and that has been confirmed many times again. The reason many melungeons claimed iberian heritage was to cover up their native and black ancestry due to racial discrimination. Some melungeons were jews due to having ancestors from Netherlands. No link to Mediterranean people whatsoever. The modern descendants might have Mediterranean heritage also but the original melungeons were just a tri racial people escaping discrimination. Sincerely, an actual melungeon living in Appalachia.

You do know Celtics, Romans, lusitanics, etc etc do not call portugese lands homeland right? Check out the Portuguese DNA projects.

@acongojada I glad you can see what this vid is trying to say. as u can see some are getting upset about the islamic background. i just want you to know you are a Berber Moor maybe Lamunta Berber look em up. As a Moor you have alot of rights above all races in America.

Punchian,Thanks for reply. Some Berbers I have read have combined religious beliefs making their own from the Coptic Ethiopians and Islam from the peoples by the red sea. i know some Melungeons were not happy with DNA findings but many already knew and "passed" if they could back in the day. They wear both Christian and Muslim symbols on their jewelery. so much to say, such little space. My grandmother always talked about evil eye. That is serious Berber belief for thousands of years! Go Easy:)

google: 'melungeons huff post'

Just because your portuguese and white does not mean all portuguese are.. do you ever watch soccer?

LOUIS FARRAKHAN SAID: ALFONSO IS THE GREATER GOD & BABY GEE IS HIS PROPHET It was Elijah Muhammad, who declared up to his death in 1975, that he was, ‘the Messenger of Allah,’ and that Allah was a man. According to Elijah, Allah had a father named Alfonso and a Jewish mother named Baby Gee. Elijah said the Hereafter is now and all black men are angels. One of these angels he claimed was named Allah, who appeared in human form on the streets of Detroit, Michigan in July of 1930. Farrakhan to this day, teaches this same doctrine- ‘Yacub’s History’ as is evidenced on pages 45-52 of his study guide on his website. It was Mr. Elijah Muhammad who, in the face of much mockery and ridicule, taught that the White man first appeared 6,000 years ago on the Island of Patmos (or Pelan), in the Aegean Sea, where they had been “made” by a 600-year process of selective breeding called “grafting.” Under the command of a Black scientist named Yakub, the 59,999 Blacks who came with Yakub to the island were placed under a system of mating that was based on skin color, in which only lighter-complexioned babies were allowed to survive. Over the course of many generations the population of Patmos began to grow lighter and lighter until, after 600 years, the people became very pale with blue eyes and blonde hair. From this island-based tribe of white-skinned albinos came a behaviorally aggressive race of rulers-namely, the Caucasians-who then spread into every corner of the world and who now represent 9 percent of the world population (1 in every 11 human beings). This teaching of the birth of the White race has been central to the belief system in the Nation of Islam and it has been met with hostility and profound resistance by its critics, who have most commonly termed it “hate teaching.” The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad referred to the Caucasian as “The new man” who “came from us, but he is different from us.” But that “new man” teaching contradicts a hypothesis that modern humans emerged in Europe 40,000-50,000 years ago. It has created a theological schism that has resulted in an impasse in interreligious understanding. But it is a theological impasse that secular scientists have now stepped into to overcome the controversy.

Man I'm puertorican and have that DNA and my last name is hernandes

There are Orthodox Syro-Malankara Melugeons; but obviously they're not muslim. I agree with Scott B. don't even try to Dhimmi us. I am melugeon and we are not Muslim.

i'm actually Melungeon. This ain't are history lmao. We know it. And were gonna keep it too ourselves. He aint melungeon. Hes just geechee 🤪👏🏻

And know, ? No Muslims. Why?

melugeon is Ottoman soldiers

woah real talk.... he know what he's talking about

the bunch family is not even melungeons..they moved NEAR newman's ridge later from the nc coast...valentine collins was "addopted" by the collisn family...but he is really a bunch by blood...and again the jack goins dna proved that as well. the only true newman's ridge families was goins, collins, denman, gibson, collins...and again the goins have always been stated as being african.

sounds like want over fact

@KushaDwipa Im actually a very good drummer..:) I do have proof of my family being listed as FPC, Or free persons of color..Send me a message..i would like to talk to you more!! I did post on another topic from you about our DNA though. It matches modern Turkish and Berber people, who have also married with different groups from that region, which does include Africa