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Taking My Own Advise Concerning Validity and Reliability
Someone asked the folllowing question in an online forum -- What is the opinion on companies like DNA consultants? What is the likelihood...
Vance Hawkins
Jan 29, 20235 min read
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Carmel Melungeons
The following was copied and pasted from this website --http://melungeon.org/2016/10/14/north-from-the-mountains-by-john-kessler-and-dona...
Vance Hawkins
Oct 16, 202246 min read
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Link to Files on How to Perform Research
There is a lot of "research" online that is done improperly. DNA conclusions are being drawn from improperly data. This is a link to all...
Vance Hawkins
Sep 29, 20221 min read
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Taking My Own Advice; 3. Learn Tribal Histories
Third When I started my project. All I was researching was Cherokee history. They I discovered a whole new area of research -- the...
Vance Hawkins
Sep 10, 20222 min read
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Taking My Own Advice; 2. Researching the Counties and Surnames of Related Family Members
Second So I researched my Brown and Guess surname, where they lived as far as I could. I could only go back until about the year 1820...
Vance Hawkins
Sep 10, 20222 min read
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Taking My Own Advice; 1. Starting Genealogical Research
First My birth certificate says I am Vance Hawkins, born December 28th, 1952 in Okmulgee, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. It also says Alpha...
Vance Hawkins
Sep 10, 20224 min read
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Taking My Own Advice; 4A. For DNA Research
4A. DNA Research For questions or comments about this project or your results, please email vadimverenich@gmail.com or visit the Magnus...
Vance Hawkins
Sep 7, 20226 min read
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Taking My Own Advise 4B; DNA Research -- Their Math Doesn't Work
4B. DNA Research They Haven't Thought Through Their Math To be 10% of any nationality is equivalent to being 10/100. This is difficult...
Vance Hawkins
Sep 6, 20223 min read
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Taking My Own Advice 4C; DNA Research; Fundamental Research Techniques
4C. DNA Research Before You Start, Educate Yourself on Basic Research Techniques I grew tired of people trying to tell me I just didn't...
Vance Hawkins
Sep 6, 20228 min read
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How to Research Your Family's Native Heritage for Distant Ancestors
How to Perform Native American Research Going Back Many Generations If you are looking for Native roots because you want discover that...
Vance Hawkins
Sep 6, 20227 min read
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My Family's Catawban Blood
OUR CATAWBA BLOOD We are NOT enrolled, nor are we eligible. We were part of the "Western Catawba" that were rejected. I am dying of...
Vance Hawkins
Aug 4, 20225 min read
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Vance Hawkins
Jul 22, 20220 min read
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Introduction
Introduction This is my FINAL introduction. I gave one permission to submit this book to Kindle e-book Amazon since I got so frustrated...
Vance Hawkins
Jul 13, 20228 min read
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Cofitachiqui--Yesah/Esaw--Catawba--Surviving Bands--Melungeon--Western Catawba Indian Association
Appendix 1 Thomas Jefferson’s Excavation of a Monacan Mound https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/jeffersons-excavatio...
Vance Hawkins
Jul 11, 202212 min read
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14 Cofitachique--Yesah/Esaw--Catawba--Surviving Bands--Melungeon--Western Catawba Indian Association
Chapter 14. Congressional Document This document says it all, really. (291) (292). In this document, we see a lot about why the attempts...
Vance Hawkins
Jul 11, 202234 min read
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13 Cofitachique--Yesah/Esaw--Catawb--Surviving Bands--Melungeons--Western Catawba Indian Association
Chapter 13: The Sun Rises in the East, and Sets in the West Pockets in the East -- Indian Communities East of the Mississippi, 1948; per...
Vance Hawkins
Jul 11, 202235 min read
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12 Cofitachique--Yesah/Esaw--Catawba--Surviving Bands--Melungeon--Western Catawba Indian Association
Chapter 12; Identity Crisis Origin of the word 'Melungeon'. There’s a lot of noise and confusion out there about the origins of the...
Vance Hawkins
Jul 11, 202223 min read
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11 Cofitachique--Yesah/Esaw--Catawba--Surviving Bands--Melungeon--Western Catawba Indian Association
Chapter 11; The Melungeons, once again Lewis Jarvis Article Most Melungeon researchers know about the Lewis Jarvis writing. About 1903...
Vance Hawkins
Jul 11, 202222 min read
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10 Cofitachique--Yesa/Esaw--Catawba--Surviving Bands--Melungeon--Western Catawba Indian Association
Chapter 10: The Revolutionary War Lord Dunsmore's War Lord Dunsmore’s War broke out shortly after the New River Indians were said to be...
Vance Hawkins
Jul 11, 202212 min read
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9 Cofitachique--Yesah/Esaw--Catawba--Surviving Bands--Melungeons--Western Catawba Indian Association
Chapter 9: Some of the Saponi Later Become the Melungeons From Saponi to Melungeon, Part 1 This section will cover the movements of these...
Vance Hawkins
Jul 11, 202219 min read
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