Melungeon Information
The 2000 Census helped raise the level of interest in Melungeon origins and classification. The Bureau of the Census has taken care of the problem quite neatly, under "Other Race", ethnic category 662 is Melungeon. What doesn't fit or is difficult to agree on is "Other".

Melungeon Fourth Union. Kingsport, Tennessee, June 20, 2002
Opening panel, "What is a Melungeon?",Me, Darlene Wilson (creator of the original Melungeon Homepage), Brent Kennedy (author of "The Melungeons: Resurection of a Proud People") and Wayne Winkler (president of the Melungeon Heritage Association)

Arch Goins and his family, Graysville Melungeons
Photo from the 1920's, from a great-nephew in Chattanooga
provided by and used with the permission of Barbara Goins

Melungeon Links
Open Directory Melungeon Links Comprehensive list of sites.
Melungeon Heritage Association Coordinates Melungeon activites, organizes the Unions.
Melungeon Mailing List Archives. Where to find relatives and ancestors, exchange news and history. See http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mtnties/list.html to join.
Melungeon Origin Discussion Group. Site for serious discussion of Melungeon origins. Check bookmarks for other Melungeon discussion groups.
What is a Melungeon? Description of several groups which are called Melungeon. Stresses the need to have a definition broad enough to cover all of them, by Mike Nassau.
The Melungeon Health Education and Support Network By Nancy Sparks Morrison. Provides information about the major Mediterranean illnesses that are inherited through the Melungeon connection.
MELUNGEONS and Other Mestee Groups. Full-text on-line book with annotated bibliography. Description and history of the Melungeons and other mixed race groups in the eastern United States. By Mike Nassau, 1994, badly dated, pre-Kennedy.