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Goins
Surname ID: 1106

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- UPDATED: 6.16.2025
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notes:
Goins is one of the primary Melungeon surnames.
I'll be looking into the three Goins cemeteries listed under Places. They could be the same!
I'll be looking into the three Goins cemeteries listed under Places. They could be the same!
variations:
ancestors:
places:
connections:
English | Irish | French | Melungeons | Redbones | Brass Ankles | Goinstown Indians | Sub-Saharan African
RESOURCES
lists/rolls:
Surnames of the Tri-Racial Families of the Upper South | Recognized Melungeon Names Today | Melungeon-Related Surnames (North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky) | Brass Ankles (South Carolina) | Redbones (Louisiana via the Carolinas) | Surnames of Probable Melungeon Descent | Free Black Surnames (Albemarle County)
records:
resources:
mentions:
The Graysville Melungeons: A Tri-Racial People in Lower East Tennessee
| North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio
| Melungeons: Examining an Appalachian Legend
| Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America
| Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe in America
| An Overview of the Phenomenon of Mixed Racial Isolates in the United States
| Windows on the Past: The Cultural Heritage of Vardy
| Free Negro Owners of Slaves in 1830
| Almost White: A Study of Certain Racial Hybrids in the Eastern United States
| Melungeons: Footprints From the Past
| Melungeons: and Other Pioneer Families
| Melungeons, A Multi-Ethnic Population
| Melungeon History and Myth
| The Buffalo Ridge Cherokee: A Remnant of a Great Nation Divided
| The Mixed-Blood Racial Strain of Carmel, Ohio, and Magoffin County, Kentucky
| Through the Back Door: Melungeon Literacies and Twenty-First Century Technologies
| How They Shine: Melungeon Characters in the Fiction of Appalachia
| Letter from Walter A. Plecker to Local Registrars, et al.
| Melungeon Portraits: Exploring Kinship and Identity
| Carolina Genesis: Beyond the Color Line
| Melungeons Yesterday and Today