The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #126205 Message #2803018
Posted By: CarolC
04-Jan-10 - 11:19 AM
Thread Name: BS: 2010 Year of Melungeons
Subject: RE: BS: 2010 Year of Melungeons
I take your point. And I didn't consider myself how my ancestors could have intermingled in Canada. But it still isn't accurate to say that we all have a little bit of everything. We all go back to the same ancestor at some point in the history of mankind, but as populations moved and spread, new genetic information developed, and someone in Norway whose ancestors never left that part of the world could easily be entirely without the genetic information that developed, for instance, among indigenous Australians, and vice versa.