View Slideshow KINGSPORT, Tennessee -- A small population from Appalachia may be linked to an ancient tribe in India, according to a long-awaited DNA study. Kevin Jones, a biologist at the University ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — For years, varied and sometimes wild claims have been made about the origins of a group of dark-skinned Appalachian residents once known derisively as the Melungeons. Some ...

Wayne Winkler was 12 years old and flipping through a local newspaper in Hancock County, Tennessee, the first time he learned of a group of people known as the Melungeons. His parents had moved to ...

KINGSPORT (Tennessee) July 1: Might the Melungeon people of the US Appalachian mountains be descendants of Moorish and Turkish sailors who escaped the Lost Colony of Roanoke? Or are their ancestors ...

Nineteenth-century Melungeons were stigmatized for their dark looks and mysterious ethnic origins. Melungeon "was the worst thing you could call somebody when I was growing up," says Denver "Bud" ...

A Melungeon photographer named T.R. Phelps from the Appalachian Mountains who took photos all over Washington County, Russell County and Bristol, VA was nearly forgotten by history. His work captures ...

In 1947, DruAnna Williams Overbay's schoolteacher mother sent her down to the mailbox at recess. She started flipping through that week's edition of the Saturday Evening Post and saw pictures of her ...

credit Kristen Philipkoski Libby Killebrew, geneologist and Melungeon activist at the Fourth Union of the Melungeons. Killebrew donated her DNA for the study and helped recruit other Melungeons.