Was There Ever an Age of Magic? Was there ever an age of magic, where Gypsy's and Portuguese Adventurers appear undocumented and...

The Melungeon Tree and Its Four Branches By Will Allen Dromgoole The Arena ; v. 3 (May, 1891), p. 749-751. Somewhere in the eighteenth...

“The Malungeons” by Will Allen Dromgoole (1891 article) October 14, 2016Resources for Research “The Malungeons” The Arena, March 1891...

“A Strange People” by Will Allen Dromgoole (1890 article) October 14, 2016 Resources for Research “A Strange People” Nashville Sunday...

Information gleaned from Richard Hathcock's Compilation of Information about the Saponi bands (Northern) of the Catawba Some information...

Once I discovered I could obtain copies of Nevil's Revolutionary War papers, I wrote off for them to the state of South Carolina. They...

I grew tired of people trying to tell me I just didn't know enough to understand their superior minds at work. I, being just a simple...

The Waylands, the Melungeons, and a Saponi Band of the Catawba Nation My research has morphed from a study of the Gist’s to the...

I have been fighting itiotic nonsence about the origins of the people referred to by Will Alan Drumgoole, living ot the...

Surnames Associated with the Catawba who Came to Indian Territory Before 1900. HISTORICAL BACKDROP In the 1740s the government still...

Here is what Muriel Hazel Wright wrote of the Catawba who came to Oklahoma in her famous book, A Guide to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma....

Oscar Taylor Richey Oscar was grandma’s brother. Both he and his wife were interviewed for this project. Here are those accounts. Date:...

Unresolved Issues I transcribed the 1897 document I am referencing. It can be found here -- The Catawba Tribe of Indians, 54th Congress,...

This is the best Story About the Origin of the Melungeon Story I have Ever Seen. This is the best origin of the Melungeon Story I have...

Our Ties to the Catawba DNA Test Here is a bar graph I was sent. It shows me mostly Caucasian, but with a little Native and a little...

Do We have Cherokee Blood? Maybe . . . still? I'd like to upgrade that to "probably" because of our Brown's. Other blog entries tell this...

Who were Sequoyah's Mother's People? I have really just started this project. It is a long way from being finished. I'll be adding to it,...

The Identity of Sequoyah's Father is STILL a Mystery (Again) This fourth section or part of my research on Sequoyah’s parentage talks...

The Identity of Sequoyah's Father is STILL a Mystery Who were Sequoyah's parents? The first of these reports was simply me looking and...

The Identity of Sequoyah's Father is STILL a Mystery;The Paternity of Sequoyah In Part 1, I followed the stories my family has shared...