The Lost Colony Blog

Any suggestion of a link between the Lost Colony of Roanoke and the Melungeons is highly speculative and certainly did not involve a direct trek west to the mountains of Tennessee, there to be discovered by Europeans centuries later as is so often erroneously depicted in Melungeon books and on Melungeon web sites. If there is any connection at all it would be by way of Lost Colony survivors mixing with American Indians and would be reflected in the genes of early colonial families throughout Virginia and the Carolinas, both predominantly European and American Indian.

Still, the search for Lost Colony survivors is a fascinating one, and may just possibly have some bearing the Melungeons, however distant.

To visit the Lost Colony Blog: Click Here.

To go directly to its associated Lost Colony DNA projects: Click Here for the mtDNA project and Click Here for the Y-Line DNA project.