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Greetings from
Legazpi City, Philippines
I am now
living in Legazpi City, Albay Province, Bicol Region, Philippines. I
married Emma Espartinez Suruiz in September, 2002, and moved here to
live permanently with her and her three children, Jefferson, Jereco
and Julie May. I am a retired librarian, I moved here from
Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A.
Ethnically, I am a Melungeon and I have done research on the
history and origins of the Melungeon people.The photos on this page
were taken at the Melungeon Fourth Union in Kingsport, TN, June
20-22, 2002, and are taken from Helen Campbell's webpage, as is the
photo of the opening panel on my Melungeon page. The photo below is
Helen and me. To find more information on the Melungeons, please go
to the Melungeon page.
The two main books on the Melungeons are "Melungeons, The
Resurection of a Proud People" by Brent Kennedy and "Melungeons
Yesterday and Today" by Jean Patterson Bible. I self published a
collection of class notes for an anthropology class on Melungeons
and other old mixed race groups of eastern United States in 1994,
the same year the first edition of Kennedy's book came out. It is
very dated, much of it I no longer believe to be true, but it does
have an extensive annotated bibliography which can help you get into
the older literature. Also, it has a lot of my wry wit which some
enjoy and by which some are deeply offended.
It has been put
on-line by the Multiracial Activist in a much better format than my
older posting of it, much easier to search.
I very grateful to
James Landrith for doing this, including making the table of
contents clickable, etc. The link is
below.
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Brief History
I was
born in the Ozark mountains on the Missouri - Arkansas border two
months after Hitler invaded Poland and started World War II. As a
child, I lived in Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Texas, Arizona and
Nebraska. I was in Texas more than any other state and sometimes
call it home, I lived in Fort Hancock, Sugarland, Victoria, Austin
and Houston.
I got my A.A. degree from Victoria College in Victoria, Texas, my
B.A. in zoology from the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, in
1960,my M.Ag. degree in animal science from the University of
Florida in Gainesville, Florida, in 1980, and my M.L.S. in library
science from the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida in
1992. I did graduate study and research in genetics in Florida,
England and Texas and in theology in Massachusetts. I taught high
school in Zambia, England and Texas, spent over six years in rural
African schools in Zambia.
My research at the University of Florida was on crossbreeding
dairy cattle for milk production in the hot tropics. As a result of
my research, I wrote a proposal for the creation of a new synthetic
breed based on a four breed cross. This was published in the Indian
Dairyman, the journal of the Indian Dairy Association. See my
Synthetic Dairy Breed page for more information and some photos.
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Melungeons and Other Mestee Groups
http://www.multiracial.com/readers/nassau.html
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My
E-Mail Address has changed.
mikenassau@yahoo.com
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Melungeon Origins
Picture above is of Helen Campbell and me, taken at
Fourth Union right after we finally met. I copied these photos from
Helen's Melungeon site at http://www.melungeons.com/ -
Thank you, Helen.
To read my ideas on Melungeon origins, see my article
by clicking the button below. After Fourth Union, I realize this is
very incomplete, there are some other main streams coming into the
mix, particularly from Louisa county, VA, and the Upper Neck of
colonial Virginia.The DNA study has found some intersting leads
which confirms the presence of a large European/West
Asian/Mediterranean element and smaller African and Native American
elements, some element tentatively identified as Siddhi or
Afro-Indian but which I think may be Bantu from the same region of
Africa where the Siddhi originated, and some distinctive West and
Central Asian elements.
What Is A
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