Re: THE WELSH TRIBE.
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THE WELSH TRIBE.
jan lala 6/24/08
Considering that the Welsh are at their heart a gaulish organization, DNA evidence would far weigh on the Melungeon families in favor of a very common European bloodline that followed strictly those nations that developed from Gaulish Tribal-States.
The contrary is actually found with reported DNA findings, where most show a Jewish (Sephardic?) commonality and instances where some other families are catalogued as being Moorish/Turkish in line and one very Central Asian haplotype.This speaks more to the possibility that at least SOME Melungeon blood can be attributed to the Moorish ethnicities, where as no data has been collected and put forward as strong evidence for a distinctly Welsh/Gaelic lineage.
The idea of Welsh settlements coming to the America's at that time isn't completely out of question, but the Welsh and more specifically, Gaelic peoples are heralded for their oral histories and by this time, thanks to Christianization, for their written histories.
It is my strong conviction that had a Welshman found the new world or been named for it, there would be much more information, from both the Americas and the European nations to support it.At that time, regardless of country boundaries, being Welsh was essentially being Briton, and we would have heard some such thing carried over long before any of us would have been born.
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