credit Kristen Philipkoski Libby Killebrew, geneologist and Melungeon activist at the Fourth Union of the Melungeons. Killebrew donated her DNA for the study and helped recruit other Melungeons.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — For years, varied and sometimes wild claims have been made about the origins of a group of dark-skinned Appalachian residents once known derisively as the Melungeons. Some ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A conference in Swannanoa this week may help unravel the mystery of the Melungeons, an Appalachian people much discussed and often feared by generations of white ...

Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree, My Search for My Melungeon Ancestors. Lisa Alther. Arcade. $25. 236 pp. When Lisa (and that’s pronounced “Liza”) Alther was a teenager in Tennessee, she was ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – For years, varied and sometimes wild claims have been made about the origins of a group of dark-skinned Appalachian residents once known derisively as the Melungeons. Some ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – For years, varied and sometimes wild claims have been made about the origins of a group of dark-skinned Appalachian residents once known derisively as the Melungeons. Some ...