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Donalyn,
I don't know the parameters of the MHA DNA study. My results may indeed reflect such a Y-Dna study. Historically there are at least two breaks in my Nickens line between 1658 and 1852. In these instances the Nickens surname was retained by the children of a non-Nickens father, Bateman and Cook. This contrast sharply with the Malungeon Town Nickens , who have an intact male lineage dating to 1658. Interestingly the roads to the Malungeon Town Nickens and the Nickens of the Broken Hills of Virginia (the Colvin family of Walter Plecker's list), both take a turn through the Catawba Indian Nation. The Tennessee population however is far more diverse - a complex ethnic population which makes a mockery out of the simplistic and deficient notion of "triracial isolates".
At the Melungeon Union of 2000 in Wise, Virginia I stated that the genealogy of colonial Indian tribes was the key to unlocking the Melungeon Mystery. Of the early Collins,Gibson, Goins, and Nickens families, the Gibsons are the only exception. Utilizing genealogy, the DNA findings of the Malungeon Town people was entirely and accurately predictable - at least five ethnic contributory populations.
Until the deficiencies in colonial history and genealogy catch up to modern DNA studies, the results of such studies with regard to historical ethnic origins are open to gross misinterpretation and "preferred" but inaccurate conclusions.
James Nickens
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