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Hello! This is one that came up in my first couisn too. We had no idea where it came from
and I am still looking. I would like to give you this website to have a look at. A lot of
the Mediterreans illnesses show up with families of the
Melungeons who did marry into many of the early families of America. I think that is where
it came from for Barbara. We have a lot of Southern ancestry.
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mtnties/disease.html
also type in the word Melungeons in the google search engine at
www.google.com and do a
little reading there. I get a magazine called Discover and recently it had an article
about these showing up in so many Americans that had no other ancestry known to them but
Scot Irish who settled in the mountians of North and South Carolina, or Eastern Tennessee
where many married into the descendants of the
Melungeons not even aware of it until they had to try to find source of the illnesses.
Hope this helps you.
Sue Ellen