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*Hey! Southern greeting (from American Indian he?). Hey, good-looking (whatcha got cooking)! Roadhouse lyrics made famous by Hank Williams (1955), used as a general greeting.
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Genghis Khan Most Prolific Man in History?
Cherokee Lineages, by Jim Hicks
Descendants of William the Conqueror, by Alan Freer, A.C.I.B.
JewishGen - The Home of Jewish Genealogy
Sir William Johnson once received a shipment of fine clothing from England - a shipment whose contents were greatly admired by the Mohawk chief Hendrick.
One day, Hendrick told Johnson about a dream which he had had - a dream in which Johnson had given him a sample. Johnson, taking the hint, presented Hendrick with one of the finest outfits.
Some time later, Johnson told Hendrick that he too had had a dream - in which Hendrick had presented him with a certain tract of land on the Mohawk River, comprising some five thousand acres of fertile soil.
Hendrick dutifully presented the land to Johnson, but declared that they would no longer dream together. "You," he lamented, "dream too hard for me, Sir William."
Family Search Internet Genealogy Service (Church of Latter-day Saints)
Throw. Often pronounced "tho." Throw a monkey-wrench in the works. Add a comment that brings everything to a grinding halt. Throw for a loop. Surprise, bring consternation upon. Throw the baby out with the bathwater. Easy to do if the whole family takes their Saturday bath in the same washtub. By the time it's Baby's turn, the water is so muddy you could easily lose the little one. Throw cold water on. Use sobering facts. "Uncle Buddy threw cold water on that idea."
Chris Pomery's DNA Portal
Hog. The affinity of Southerners to their hogs is shrouded in the mists of time. "The truth of it is," wrote an earlier observer, William Byrd, " these People live so much upon Swine's flesh, that it don't only encline them to the Yaws, & copnsequently tothe downfall of their Noses, but makes them likewise extremely hoggish in their Temper, many of them seem to Grunt rather than Speak in their ordinary conversation (Histories of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina). Hog heaven the same as Cloud 9. Hog-swaddle to tie blind, deceive. Hogwash! Piffle! *Whole hog (go) (carry out something to) the utmost. If you're going to raise hogs and slaughter them, you may as well learn how to make sausage from the scraps, put up pickled pig's feet, etc. Every part of the hog was used, including the blood (for puddings), fat scraps (rendered for soap and candles) and pizzle (for sponges).
Kevin Duerinck Genealogy Home Page with Information on DNA
Hoelseth's Royal Corner. Information on the Royal and Princely Families
of the World
****I come out your good eye gone! Nonsensical saying of an adult to a child, also of one adult to another who is slouching around in the doldrums. Similar to "chin up!" or "stiff upper lip!" (British). If any meaning can be got out of this one, maybe it's along these lines: "You have only one good eye because you're looking at everything with your bad eye and you weren't quick enough to see me before I was gone."
My Ancient Newberry History, by Steven Earle Newberry
*Adam, not to know someone from. To regard someone as a stranger, see someone for the first time. "I didn't know him from Adam, though it might have been nice to know him in the biblical sense, ha ha." -Cracker Proverbs.
Human Family Trees, at Ancient Roots
The Yates Pages, at Tina Hall's Genealogy Site (incl. Shelton and other
surnames)
LIST OF EARLY INDIAN TRADERS IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH (CALL FOR ENROLLES FROM PAST RESEARCH PROJECT--check Melungeons.com for updates)
The Southern U.S. Native American DNA Project is interested in male volunteers who bear their surname by reason of direct father-son descent from any southeastern Indian trader who was active in the 1700s or earlier among the Cherokee, Chickasaw and other southeastern tribes. You do not have to descend from the Indian wife. Many of these traders had both white and Indian wives. Some of them may be known as Longhunters in Tennessee and Kentucky. We are using the Y-STR test, which only looks at the y-chromosome (male inheritance).
Here is a brief list of early Indian
traders whose DNA we are interested in; there are undoubtedly many others:
| James Adair | George Galphin | Payne |
| Thomas Atkin | Nathaniel Gist (f/o Sequoyah) | Hardy Perry |
| Timothy Barnard | George Guess, Guest, Gass | Benjamin Perryman |
| Bean and McBean | Ludovick Grant | Rae |
| William Blevins | Grierson | Rogers |
| James Beamer | Greenwood Leflore (Lefleur) | Daniel Ross |
| Thomas Brown | John Gunter | Robert San(d)ford |
| Bunch, Bench or Benge | John Jones | Sizemore |
| Robert Bunning, Bunyan | James Leslie (Leslie & Panton) | Dick Smith |
| Benjamin Burges | Alexander Long | Robert Steel/Steill |
| John Caldwell | John Looney | John Stuart |
| Daniel Clark Candy, Cantey, Gundy, Canada: Robert Gandey or Gowdy William Colbert William and Joseph Cooper Joseph Cornell Cornelius Dougherty (appears in many forms) John Elliott/Ehlert Samuel Elsmear John Forbes James Francis |
George Lowrey Martin John McDonald James McQueen John McKee Alexander McIntosh Lachlan McGillivray Abraham Mordecai William Dixon Moniac (orig. Jacob Monaque) Thomas Nairne Richard Pearis/Parris |
William Holland (Col. Will) Thomas
George Jacob Troxell Joseph Vann Venn or Benn Waitie/Waties John Watts William Weatherford Thomas Welch Dr. Henry Woodward Eleazar Wiggans |
Lord Shaftesbury [Anthony Ashley-Cooper] often remarked that all wise men are of but one religion. "And which is that?" he was asked one day. "Wise men," he wisely replied, "never tell."
Black Dutch (Black Irish). Code name for people of mixed Indian-White ancestry; Melungeon. Originally it had nothing to do with being Negro or part Negro. Children of the same marriage might be named Black Squire, White John depending on the dominant complexion that came out in them-Indian or Dutch. According to my distant cousin Mary Bondurant Warren, the first Black Dutch were the illegitimate offspring of Moorish soldiers and Dutch girls in the 16th century, when Spain conquered Holland. It is said that the first Black Irish were fathered by Spanish sailors rescued from the wreck of the Spanish Armada off the west coast of Ireland and taken in by the local lasses. The main immigration of Black Dutch was from the counties around the Cumberland Gap in Virginia and North Carolina. Many then worked their way down Waldens Ridge in Tennessee, settling on Sand Mountain in northeast Alabama. Black Dutch was a popular excuse for Virginia Cherokees and other Indians in that state who were not supposed to be there after Indian Removal. It explained why you had an accent and didn't speak English too good. Wise Co., Virginia is the heartland of the Melungeons today. This word is of unknown origin. Black heart. Internal organ of a scoundrel or vixen. "That black-hearted hussy sold her engagement ring." Black eye demerit, faux pas. Black sheep of the family disgraceful member who has been read out of the book.
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