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Tim's account ... backed up byplenty of meticulous documentation ... was the first thing that makde logical sense and did not require a huge leap of faith back to some loct colony of make-believe shipwreck survivors, etc. For me, the "Melungu" word--adopted BY the Portuguese FROM the very people who were brought here in 1619 (namely, Angolan Africans), made it all gel. the other pieces fell together as the logic of it hit nome, then the plausibility of the component parts, then the way the pieces all fit together seamlessly without conflict ... combined with such issues as the presence of racism and the effect of that reality on how people would behave--and what they would and would not admit to, as their comfort zones changed, etc., made it clear that this was the truth and the rest of the stories ... with all their contradictions and unbelievable leaps of faith required, just weren't. The other perspectives are ALL easily explained ... and explained away .. by an undertanding of the Angolan - Melungu explanation. My cousin Don's sub-Saharan DNA test is the clincher for me. He is the son of a son of a son, etc. And whether it leads back to a Collins or a Bunch, I am fully convinced that there is a pre-Chattel slavery Angolan who used the word Melungu ... and who may have encouraged his children and grandchildren to claim "Portuguese" ... standing at the head of that line. All the evidence points that way. I have listed the rationale endlessly. Go to my past posts here, on Joanne's new Yahoo list, and on the old RootsWeb list to read it.
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