I don't have info on Carnes Indian blood however I know that in Virginia in
the very early days a community started up that was composed of Indians,
runaway slaves and white people such as women who had run away from their
husbands and I suppose a lot of other social misfits. They intermarried and
formed a group called Melungan Indians. I am really fuzzy on the details.
I'm sure they didn't just all come together at the same time and start
producing a new race! But I know there are Melungeans in the background of
another of my family lines, the Norris family, who also passed a generation
or two in Virginia.
Terry Carnes