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jan oliver: My results look very much like yours. My family are Griffin and Gibsons originally from Virginia ...ended up in Texas. Thanks for sharing.
farrell duttom: i'm related to the flannagansin northwest alabama . johngot here in about 1780 or 1790 . he married a indianwoman . according to familyhistory,they intermarried with the borden family,whointermarried with the duttons. instead of indian weyoung were told we wereblack dutch .
captainelectric1: this is a great blog,very interesting to me. i am black dutch my paternal grandmother told me the story of her people when i was a teenager.she said they were indian(she whipered indian). she told me it was my head that reminded her of her people, i have the melungeon bump on my head, of corse she had no knowing of melungeon, they came from knox and blont co's.tn. their surname was flanagan and i am researching my family tree. any help would be grateful. her fathers name was Moses Flanagan,grand

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Monday, August 17th 2009

9:01 AM

East Texas Redbones: In Search of the Ancient One's Documentary Film

East Texas Redbones: In search of the ancient ones, is my first attempt at a documentary. In the film we explore the origins of the Nash and Goins families primarily and the East Texas Redbone people. The origin of the terms Redbone and others like Melungeon and the origin of the racial ethnic origins of the Redbone people through genealogy and DNA testing. I also explore the culture of the early Redbone people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redbone_(ethnicity)

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Caddoan Mounds High Temple Mound, Alto, Texas

It is also was a attempt to find the actual Native American origin of the East Texas Redbone people.

My first visit was to go to the one place that I knew about that was of East Texas Native American origin. The Caddoan Mounds, a ancient Native American village in East Texas. The Museum folks let me film there and I talked with them about the origins of the people.

http://www.thc.state.tx.us/hsites/hs_caddo.aspx?Site=Caddohttp://www.thc.state.tx.us/hsites/hs_caddo.aspx?Site=Caddo

 

It is known that the historian Webster Talma Crawford believed that the Redbone people had blood in their veins from the Lipan Apache, Choctaw, Coushatta and the Caddo. He also believed they had Mediterranean and Moor ancestry. DNA has shown that the Redbones have all these ethnic ancestries and more. I explain some of the theories in the film as well as visit some of the known Redbone locations.  I went deep into the East Texas Woods, explored cemeteries and other locations of interest, searching directly, for the Redbone ancestors.

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My second visit was meeting up with Cyndie Goins and her father, both of them Redbone descendents of William “Bill” Goyens Jr. who was a Native American interpreter and friend of Sam Houston. Goyens was a businessman in Nacogdoches, TX and became wealthy in the early days of the Texas Republic. Cydie tells the story of William Goyens in the film and in the film we visit the burial grounds of William Goyens on Goyens Hill, which is also a Native American and Spanish burial ground . We then go to the marker of William Goyens Jr which is located in Nacogdoches, TX.

Photobucket  Historical Marker of William "Bill" Goyens Jr.

The third visit was in Paris, TX where myself, Cyndie Goins and Stacy Webb all were giving presentations on Mestee Maroon communities and families at the East Texas Historical Association Spring Program.

http://www.easttexashistorical.org/v3/events/Spring%202009%20Program.pdf

There I interviewed Stacy Webb, a Redbone Nash-Goins-Sweat-Perkins-Stringer descendent. In fact, I think Stacy has more Mestee Maroon ancestors than anyone I have ever met. Her Stringer and my Archer family were on early records in Eastern North Carolina as being Free People of Color. We discuss the Native American origins of the Nash family in detail and several topics on the Redbone people. We also discuss the Thomas and Benjamin Nash family Redbone origins

http://www.familyphotosandinfo.parrottfarms.com/nash.html

Photobucket Benjamin Nash, East Texas Redbone

Benjamin Nash gave permission for Anglo Americans to settle on Coushatta lands.

I enjoyed making this film, it was great fun. The film will be showing at the next Redbone Conference. I believe anyone interested in Mestee or Black Dutch, Redbone, Melungeon ancestry will enjoy it .

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Love's Lookout in Jacksonville, TX

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