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- UPDATED: 7.21.2025
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Surnames of the Tri-Racial Families of the Upper South | Creek Freedman Surnames | Seminole Surnames – Freedman and Blood Rolls | Melungeon-Related Surnames (North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky) | Cubans (North Carolina) | Lumbee/Croatan Indian (North and South Carolina) | Surnames of Probable Melungeon Descent | Free Black Surnames (Albemarle County)
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1790 U.S. Census – Wilkes County, North Carolina | 
1820 U.S. Census – Floyd County, Kentucky | 
1830 U.S. Census – Floyd County, Kentucky | 
1840 U.S. Census – Hawkins County, Tennessee | 
1840 U.S. Census – Morgan County, Kentucky | 
1850 U.S. Census – Morgan County, Kentucky | 
1850 U.S. Census – Subdivision 33, Hancock County, Tennessee
resources:
mentions:
My Melungeon Heritage: A Story of Life on Newman’s Ridge | 
The Buffalo Ridge Cherokee: A Remnant of a Great Nation Divided | 
Melungeons: Examining an Appalachian Legend | 
North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio | 
Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775 | 
Our Mountain Heritage: Ancestors from Southwest Virginia (Including Edwards, Wright, Hay, Colley, Deel) | 
The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People | 
Letter from Walter A. Plecker to Local Registrars, et al. | 
Free Negro Owners of Slaves in 1830 | 
Washed in the Blood
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