Is Johnny Depp Melungeon?
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Is Johnny Depp Melungeon? Among his ancestors is Elizabeth Key Grinstead, a figure of historical significance known to be Depp's 8th great-grandmother. Elizabeth Key Grinstead was not only enslaved but also a pioneer in challenging her status in the 17th century, marking a pivotal case in the colonial American legal system. As we delve into Depp's lineage, we'll explore how this remarkable story of resilience and fight for freedom ties into the broader narrative of American identity and hidden history
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When you get a chance look this book up please. Jews and Muslims in British Colonial America: A Genealogical History
Book by Donald N. Panther-Yates and Elizabeth Hirschman
That Ethnicelebs site says that he's predominantly European. Therefore his somewhat darkish complexion could just be French or English, which is what he is mostly.
He looks similar in coloring and features to Orlando Bloom, David Gandy, Aiden Turner and Henry Cavill who are all British/Irish. So that's probably where he gets it from. Just looks unusual, is all.
@theamberheardplaylist6768 After what she did to Depp, you still support this snake of a person? lol. You're f'd in the head.
@theamberheardplaylist6768After what she did to Depp, why would you ever support that snake of a person?
you are relating Melungeon people to be of black heritage- you could not be more OFF...
Oh, he is just gorgeous His DNA is from the country called gorgeous.
I agree, England is a beautiful country.
As far as I know his European DNA is Swedish, not English.
Elvis was blond
He dyed his hair
Biracials (black ancestry )sometimes
Claimed Indian or
Cherokees
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I’m a descendent of Elizabeth Key as well. Depp is like a distant cousin of mine through my great++++ grandma Worthie Eubanks who was sisters with one of his great grandmas. I have her portrait in my recording studio.
That’s awesome! I have photos of ancestors in m my office too 😄
Also, the R&B girl group, '702' are her descendants. Elizabeth has both black and white descendants and her story played a pivotal role in the early history of slavery in America - they had to change the slave laws pertaining to mixed African slave children claiming their white fathers estate - her story is worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster! Your ancestor was a formidable woman. Respect! It's sad that to this day, there is a deep seeded stigma in having African ancestry no matter how minuscule - I am African and I love it - black peoples we are a vibe, hahaha! Peace, Love & Harmony to all. Laters.
@@leclube2282 for sure, no one would think I have black ancestry just by looking at me. My mom told me about Elizabeth Key maybe 5 years ago but she just knew the name and some minor details about her life. Our family only remembered that she had been a slave and sued for freedom, and we had a detail wrong, we thought she married the plantation owner. One day a few years ago I decided to Google her and that's when I learned she had a larger historical profile.
The Eubanks are a big family from the Sac and Fox Indian tribe- including Bob Eubanks from the Newlywed show...
@@sctsh1491 really? I didn't know about the tribal heritage part. Where do I learn more about that?
And, Johnny Depp's mixture made him one good looking man!!!! No wonder I found him so attractive!
Lol
He ain't mixed though.
Johnny is not Afrikan-American, not by a long shot.
@@capoislamort100 Who said he is???
Johnny has so much palm color in him, he's almost completely yt! I've been able to call it (Negro blood) for most of my life! But, I didn't see this truth coming!
My belief is that dark yt people are more than likely Ceciliani's (the Admixture in them is off the charts), Lower Spain/Portugal/Italy (think Moor descendants), Olive complexion Arabs, Creoles (with Negroid dna), Melungeon's, and other's worldwide!
@@idratherbeaphilthanajustin9533 We (black folks) don't call him mixed but back in the day, we included people like him because of the one drop rule!
No wonder they've hid that one drop truth from the world!
If I was a Melungeon, I would have hid that fact too! We (modern day blacks) don't claim them and modern day yts still side eye them! Or if it's them, they still deny it; especially the yt rac!st ones who learn their absolute undeniable truth via DNA test!
You just can't make these unbelievable race stories up!
People are a trip!
Melungeon here!!!!! Proud of it!!
You're never going to run out of topics, everyone has a story, and most of us don't know much about our ancestry. Thanks for another great video.
I always think I’ll run out of ideas…and then I close my eyes to go to sleep and have a new question to answer! 😂
@@nytn 😀
@@nytn Perhaps you could report on the Lumbee Indians of North Carolina next. They are widely considered to be of mixed ancestry and, at least by some, partly descended from the "Lost Colony." Fun fact: the actress Heather Locklear is said to have Lumbee ancestors .
I matched with some lumbee on gedmatch! Great idea
You Americans don't know about your ancestry. Europeans do.
Elizabeth Grinstead’s story is fascinating! What I love about this channel is how Danielle shines a light on the silenced history of our country.
I’m from Milwaukee, WI. Sadly, it’s one of the most segregated cities in the U.S.
My ppl are from Kentucky. Found out we're Melungeon.
Thank you for sharing the story of my 9th great-grandmother, Elizabeth Key Grinstead, from my maternal grandmother's side. You are correct--Melungeon ancestry is not involved. However, my maternal grandfather was a Goins from Kentucky and I am still searching if he is of Melungeon blood.
love it!! I have been doing some videos on my Goins side and plan to do more
What an interesting heritage you and you family have! Good you to you and Johnny and all of you on finding out more!
Goins is a common Melungeon name.
Did you ever look up the author Donald Goins its a must @nytn
Are thee Goins from Kentucky related to the Goins from Alabama?
You need to do Shia LeBeouf next. His father is from Louisiana and has some sort of mixed ancestry.
LA..mostly have black ancestry
You are on 🔥 with your content!
That’s super nice of you
Depp should make a movie about her life
My thought exactly!
"her"?
His!
I looked up Johnny's background a few years ago. I found out that same 8 times great grandmother is the same to the Black 90s R&B girl group 702. They still have the last name Grimstead.
Depp is possibly viking, because his name is from Dieppe in northern France Normandy. A state made by mostly male Vikings. And his father is called Depp so if that goes all the way back to France it could go even further to Scandinavia
He's part French and English as well, and through his father his part black via Elizabeth Grinstead who was married to an English man. There is stigma in the south about having black ancestry. Elizabeth's story is fascinating, worthy of a movie. Peace, Love & Harmony to all. Laters.
@@leclube2282Elizabeth Key Grinstead's genetic influence on Johnny Depp would be literally as low as a few percent, if that. She was born in 1630 for a start and a great grandparent only contributes 12.5% of a person's overall genetic makeup. Depp is predominantly European in lineage, namely English.
This is true as regards Scandinavian ancestry. I have a 12% mixture that comes from
Viking ancestry from Normandy, France and Yorkshire, England. These ancestors
came to America 3 to 4 hundred years ago.
@@idratherbeaphilthanajustin9533”English” doesn’t necessarily mean England native. My European ancestors (on both sides) lived in Ireland, Wales (before they came to the Americas (on that boat to Virginia) but their real identity is French, German, and than they colonized Norway-Norway and Iceland shows for me in my DNA. They colonized Britain w/William the Conqueror during the Conquest in the 1000s. His black Amerindian ancestry doesn’t just erase, no matter how far down the line. My French ancestors, according to a document I found, were not all the way white because they were mixing even then with black people in France. Dark features-his black hair, brown eyes, tanned skin are not native to Europeans. The early European progenitor was blond hair, blue eyes. That is his black ancestry recent and most likely before that. Dieppe’s ancestry if mostly French, most likely German, and Scandinavian, just like I’ve found my European ancestors to be-and than those people who came to France came from ROME & GREECE from my research on my family in Northeastern France.
You are so right, he should highlight this.
History is fascinating and complex. Thanks for this!
Yet another great video. Please keep up the good work.
From Wikipedia; "Melungeons (/məˈlʌndʒənz/ mə-LUN-jənz) (sometimes also spelled Malungeans, Melangeans, Melungeans, Melungins[3]) are a group of people from Appalachia who predominantly descend from northern or central Europeans and sub-Saharan Africans. Their ancestors were likely brought to Virginia as indentured servants in the mid-17th century.[1]
According to the 1890 Department of Interior Report of Indians Taxed and not Taxed within the "Tennessee" report, "The civilized (self supporting) Indians of Tennessee, counted in the general census numbered 146 (71 males and 75 females) and are distributed as follows: Hawkins county, 31; Monroe county, 12; Polk county, 10; other counties (8 or less in each), 93. The Melangeans or Melungeons in Hawkins County claim to be Cherokees of mixed blood (white, Indian, and negro), their blood being derived, as they assert, from English and Portuguese stock. "
Great research as usual Danielle, thanks.
3:20 Alexander Hamilton?
Great research!✨
Another great one Dani TY learned alot
JD is so gorgeous..specially when he was young.💕
Thanks for your continues love and support ❤. How long have you been a fan?
Great content! 😊
Thank you! Thank you! You are documenting important and often hidden history!
I can't get to post like I use to since yt "updated" itself! I'm still here, just get can't comment as often 😢
Great video and great channel! Thanks
I always enjoyed JD as Cop, Pirate or Vampire. He would be an amazing guest!
Once again you out do yourself!
God Bless!
I feel like as a pirate, he just showed up as himself
Not like Willy Wonka?
That WW was so terrifying to me
@@nytn same here
The American Genealogist did his paternal side and Depp is French. May have been Dieppe originally. Dave Mustaine from Megadeth also has patrilineal French ancestry that goes back to colonial Virginia.
Check out the migrations back and forth between Gulf Coast, the Carriers and the island of Hispaniola between 1700 and 1800s. Look at what USA did to both ends of the island, Papa Docs in more recent history, the wall built by Dominican Republic, the term "soap", the fact of family in common, and which are emphatic to denial any trace of African blood. This based on conversations from people who lived on the islands. When some fled Haiti, they went to Louisiana purchase area. When black code came on strong, some held onto being creole, white but definitely not African.They might been progeny educated in Europe. They might have claimed ownership of other people.
Thank you for doing Gods work. At the end of the day were all very similar.
Another great show.
Okay, this is one of my favorite so far and it was brief but packed with info. As a long fan of Johnny's I'm happy to welcome him into the family tree of the mixed heritage of this country, who roots are truly closer to the real story of this country's history. Wow, I wonder what he'd say to this information, I'm sure someone has to have shared this with him? Thank you so much for looking into this part of his history.
I thought he has Native American ancestry because the way he looks.
Looks can be deceiving. The early colonists who mixed amongst many others can show traits of all or not at all.
Never judge a book by its cover.
Maybe one day he can appear on finding your roots. Chuck Norris is also said to be part native American.
When ever they say "native american" its code for African American.
The terms Indian and negroe were used interchangeably to describe the plight of native Americans under the exploitation of early Europeans. Today we can easily discover the same terms African American a misnomer, but used to describe peoples of negroid phenotypes who aren’t necessarily of African descent. Research the description of the original Upper Creek nation who named the lower Creek nations “siminolis”/seminoles.
You have a very interesting channel.
Thanks for cross referencing Bacons Rebellion with Ms. Grinstead's struggle for full human acknowledgement. And then bringing it forward with one of the most interesting celebrity in modern history. Johnny Depp has acknowledged "deep seeded hillbilly aggression" in his life's struggle. I now wonder if his personal strife is a remnant of his ancestors existence. Maybe too much of a reach? Most likely but I hope he acknowledges this video and is able to expand on your research with what he may know already. That would definitely make for an interesting turn of events for your channel. Thank you again Danielle for an interesting video.
Wouldn’t that be cool! I always loved him as an actor. He always makes acting an obvious artistic outpouring
@@nytn That would be more than cool. It would be Johnny Depp. 🤯🤯☺☺
Unfortunately he's from the south and the stigma surrounding having a drop of black African ancestry still prevails to this day sadly and he grew up in the south so... I always hoped he'd acknowledge it, his father looked mixed black when he was younger as well. Some of Elizabeth's descendants are the R&B girl group, '702'. Elizabeth was a formidable woman worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster - "Yo! Johnny, where you at son?! make a film about your ancestor, tata!" Lol. Peace, Love & Harmony to all.
If American hate & ignorance had any value, we could pay off the national debt!
There would be a surplus, too!
Well done@
My family is Melungeon verified through Ancestry and CRI Genetics!
He's gorgeous I always figured he was mixed he has beautiful skin he's just one beautiful man
He isn't mixed. Even if his great grandmother was Native American that would be only upto 12.5% of his genetic makeup. He has predominant English ancestry.
Mixed French and English, not mixed "race". He's predominantly European.
He ain't mixed, even his distantly related ancestor, Elizabeth Key had an English father and a White Husband. Her paternal lineage and her son's paternal lineage was both European white and after her son who was 75% white who married another white women. Johnny depp's DNA result probably wouldn't even show her.
Love your content, please do a video on the Free People of Color in NC (which has similarities to Creoles in Louisiana).
I’m working on a script about the FPoC in LA. Didn’t think about the other states! Thank you!
Welcome and thank you!
I'm related to Johnny Depp through Thomas Key. So thank you for sharing more information on his tree so I can update my tree. 😊
Thiis is a facinating video thank you so much for recording it. My family are related to Thomas Clarkson who worked for the abolition of slavery.
Part of Johnny's Cherokee heritage comes from his Sizemore heritage.
yes his 5 great grandmother was Mary Alice “ Little Granny Alice” (Sizemore) Slone part of the whitetop nation
You are awesome.
Such a great TH-cam channel!!
😩that’s so kind!
Johnny Depp does have Native American roots. His relative did their family tree:
“I descend from the same lines as him. Though he may not be informed properly of our heritage, he is certainly correct. I can prove that his second great grandmother was 1/4 Cherokee, his third great grandmother, who is my fifth great grandmother, was 1/2 Cherokee. I've been researching this family for 11 years now, as it is my own. I can prove all of this. The attached image is a picture of his second great grandmother his direct maternal line, the one he speaks of in interviews). Her name is Amanda Bradley, she married Wiley Slone. The other attached picture is of my own ancestor, Amanda's brother, Isaac "Ike" Bradley. He married Nancy Jane Slone, sister of Wiley Slone. Amanda and Isaac's mother, Elizabeth Pridemore Bradley, spoke Cherokee. I have a picture of her also, she has Cherokee symbols drawn on her dress in the photo. The census records says she couldn't read or write, and we know that she spoke broken English. Her brother John served on both sides during the Civil War and was listed as 'Colored' while serving for the Union. I have much more information on this family if anyone else cares enough to read it. My grandfather was researching before me, from the 1960s all the way to
2019. I compiled his records and research with my own”
Alex Allen
His mother probably has Native ancestry but I thought it was debunked I am not sure... his father has black ancestry through Elizabeth Grinstead - her descendants are both black and white such as the R&B girl group, '702'. Nothing wrong with also recognising his African roots and Elizabeth is someone to be proud of. No shame in also being part black as well as Native.
@@leclube2282 he has recent Cherokee ancestors through his maternal line.
@@Gothicblackchic Dep does not have any Cherokee or any other Native American ancestry, his DNA proved he is majority European with traces of Sub Saharan African.
@@Thomas_Oklahoma he never did a DNA test. That’s a fake story someone posted online.
Justice has prevailed more than once in his lineage ! Strong ancestors 🙏🏻
omg I was the one who mentioned that a few weeks back! thank you, thank you, thank you so much for the deep dive on Depp.
Danielle, I am on 3 genealogy sites and had my DNA done in 2006 through National Geographic before it was the rage. One of the sites traces my DNA to Jane "The Elder" Gibson from the Pamunkey Reservation who would be my 10th GG. She was Native American from the Powhatan, Saponi, Nansemond or Mingo tribe. Supposedly the husband took on the tribe of his wife's family. She was enslaved on the Shirley Plantation in Virginia by the British and her children were bound out to work on the ships to transport tobacco. There is an interesting case in the Virginia court archives regarding her case to have her children freed. It is rather extensive but you might find it interesting. Not many people know that the Native Americans were enslaved. I receive notices r/t blood relatives from one of my sites claiming that Elvis and Johnny are distant cousins.
That is very interesting. Would love to see more information about her and her story. One of my great grandfathers (Cornelius Dabney) was an interpreter for a Pamunkey Chief.
I would not be surprised about Elvis and Johnny being cousins. As late as
1835, the Melungeons of Tennessee were being sent as Indians to
Oklahoma during the Trail of Tears. Many of them including my Benge/Bunch
Family chose to relocate to Kentucky to avoid the Trail of Tears.
When genealogy started becoming popular in the late 80s early 90s, my cousin researched ours even though so much had to be done by hand precomputer. So very many people who were born part of one racial group or another would move away and try to "pass" as white purely for safety reasons.
Hello from Copperhill Tn.
Hello there!
Awesome video. Great story. You are right. He should do a movie about her and bring awareness to the Melungeon history.
Another good story is the Pleasant vs Pleasant story in Virginia. A Quaker freed his slaves apon his death but of course some of his descendants fought this while others wanted them freed. The case lead to a important law change.
Johnny Depp needs to make a movie about his ancestry - his grandmother!!
Well, it turns out that Johnny Dep has no Native American ancestry. He did a DNA test a few years ago, it proved he has majority European ancestry and a little Black ancestry. Since he made his DNA Ancestry test public, he seemed to have backed away from associating with Cherokee and Comanche heritage. His supposed Melungean, has he shown any interests? If anything, Johnny Dep should champion his 8th great Grandmother Elizabeth Key Grinstead instead, who was a Black civil-rights figure.
He does. One of his cousins did their family tree:
descend from the same lines as him. Though he may not be informed properly of our heritage, he is certainly correct. I can prove that his second great grandmother was 1/4 Cherokee, his third great grandmother, who is my fifth great grandmother, was 1/2 Cherokee. I've been researching this family for 11 years now, as it is my own. I can prove all of this. The attached image is a picture of his second great grandmother his direct maternal line, the one he speaks of in interviews). Her name is Amanda Bradley, she married Wiley Slone. The other attached picture is of my own ancestor, Amanda's brother, Isaac "Ike" Bradley. He married Nancy Jane Slone, sister of Wiley Slone. Amanda and Isaac's mother, Elizabeth Pridemore Bradley, spoke Cherokee. I have a picture of her also, she has Cherokee symbols drawn on her dress in the photo. The census records says she couldn't read or write, and we know that she spoke broken English. Her brother John served on both sides during the Civil War and was listed as 'Colored' while serving for the Union. I have much more information on this family if anyone else cares enough to read it. My grandfather was researching before me, from the 1960s all the way to
2019. I compiled his records and research with my own.
Occasionally saying you are Native is code for black due to the stigma surrounding having Africans ancestry - not saying he doesn't have Native ancestry but I was under the impression it was debunked a few years ago hence why he no longer talks about being Native.
Where was this test done?
@@Gothicblackchicvery interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing
His ancestry is predominantly white and English. A great grandparent contributes only 12.5 % of a person's genetic makeup, therefore Depp's black ancestor's genetic influence is literally a few percent, if that.
Depp is def mixed, he’s always looked mix from young days in film
He's primarily of English descent.
No he really isn't, lol
Norm Grinstead here. My grandfather…. Was William Grinstead just now learning of this,good info!
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My Birth Mother is Italian from Tuscany, Genoa,Sicilian, and Sardinia. My Birth dad is Native American, India, Sephardic Jew, and Aboriginal Australian. At four years old my Mother was murdered. My dad died when I was 14. I finally found a relative on my Mothers side. She told me they had been looking for me for years. She asked what my dads race was. I told her and she began to shake. Oh my God, we thought he was black! Mom’s Family disowned her. I’ve previously learned I have a twin brother. My adopted mother knows everything but refuses to speak about my Mother. The cousin I met refuses to speak with me after I told her my mom was murdered. I need assistance in getting my original birth certificate. It was a simple step parent adoption. I’ve been to court. If you could lead me in the right direction I’d greatly appreciate it. Thank you. Also, I love your videos.
I really enjoy your videos. I’ve learned so much about the American history of everyday people and the extraordinary stories of their lives. I’m commenting because I was wondering why you picked the portrait of the woman who graces the “cover” (I’m sure there’s an actual name for it that I don’t know) of your video. I’ve loved this portrait for many years now. It was completed in The Netherlands in 1521 by Albrecht Duerer. I found it confusing to see this portrait with a story about Johnny Depp and his possible Melungeon ancestry.
Thank you!! She is the one attached to this story and I was hoping people might recognize it, but you are right there are no known images of Elizabeth. I wish I had thought to mention that in this video. Hopefully people will see your comment!
Thanks so much for clarifying this.
@@maryd9869Read about Elizabeth Grinstead's history - it's fascinating! What a formidable woman - her story is pivotal in the history of slavery in America. Johnny's father is a descendant of Elizabeth Grinstead as is the R&B girl group, '702'. Her story is worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster. It's a shame that the stigma in having African ancestry still prevails to this day and he grew up in the south so... sometimes saying you have native ancestry is code for actually having black African ancestry. Shame. Peace, Love & Harmony to all. Laters.
Thanks!
I find it frustrating when I look at past laws that 'undo' freedoms that all people should have had from the beginning. Watching Dr. Louis Henry Gates' documentary on the Reconstruction was full of gut-punches for me, though I don't have African or native ancestry that I'm aware of and my family had settled in the north. Despite current trends, we can, as you say, find hope in the stories of brave people who fought against attempts to take away our rights and freedoms. P.S. My grandmother (Mom's side) grew up in NYC; born in 1900. :)
I see the makings of a great film 🎥 here!!!
Seriously
My grandfather on my mom's side always said they were German but he had an olive complexion, blue eyes and black hair. My dad is 3/4 Cherokee and 1/4 Creek. Love watching your videos.
Amazing story! It's good that you're revealing these truths. We're all part of humanity and that's beautiful. I'm half Sicilian and half Appalachian. Both were melting pots. I'm proud of my uniqueness.
That’s a great mix 👌🏼😉
Lone ranger is about bass reeves
My Father was Apache and Melungeon, and my Mother is French. Very Proud of my Native Hertiage.
I always _thought_ Gilbert Grape had a lil too much flavor for Endora, Iowa!🤣🤣 Now it makes sense, lol.
My maternal grandmother was from Sneedville, TN, which is known to be a Melungeon community.
My maternal family is from Kentucky and west Virginia (via MS/AL); Depp is an apparent distant cousin.
@Johnnydepp57548 I was watching from L.A.
being from kentucky theres a medium to high chance he might be. my family has melungeon genes in it, father from kentucky, mother from virginia.
I have heard that in Canada as well
Thanks for your continues love and support ❤. How long have you been a fan?
❤Yes because I thought he was kin to the group 702.Because there Dad was a Grimstand.
He's got African ancestry - His great great etc grandmother, Elizabeth Grinstead is a key figure within the history of slavery in the USA due to her actions - wish they'd make a movie about her life. The R&B girl group, '702', are also descendants of Elizabeth Grinstead - some of her descendants are black some white, like Johnny through his father.
He's distant ancestor would not make him mixed. She would be a miniscule part of his genetic makeup.
Miniscule ...if it wasn't for her there would be no him....really we are all mixed. I'm black appearing, but all my grandparents are "mixed"
@@blessgodess5146My point being that she was born 400 years ago. A great grandparent (who contributes 12.5% to a descendant) could easily be as recent as around 80 years. Considering there is approximately another 300 years difference, her genetic influence on him would be quite literally 'miniscule'.
@@idratherbeaphilthanajustin9533 You're assuming there was just 1 contributor (Elizabeth) - if she was a notable person, and seen as Black and a former slave, in her community where she lived, odds are her children and grandchildren also may have married 'mixed race,' people.
@@dr7060 But we are basing the assumption on his ancestry on one or two specific ancestors. If you look at it like that then there's no point making a video specifically on Depp, it might as well be about Americans as a whole.
I'm related to JD through his father's side. I traced Johnny Depp's ancestors all the way back to Jamestown and Pocahontas. He's descended from Pocahontas's sister and a white man named John Rice Hughes. (I don't know if that has changed since I looked it all up years ago.)
He's also descendant of Elizabeth Grinstead who was the daughter of an African slave woman and her white master - her father unusually left his estate to her and she had to go to court to claim her inheritance which resulted in the colonists changing the laws regarding mixed children of slaves inheriting their white fathers estates. Elizabeth was a formidable woman worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster. Some of her other ancestors are the R&B girl band, '702'. There is a deep seeded stigma in saying you have black African ancestry instead of Native for instance especially if you are from the south like Johnny is; such as Johnny Cash's first wife as well who claimed she was Sicilian my foot! Jeeeeezzzz, as soon as I saw her I knew she was part black which was confirmed a few years ago via a DNA test through her daughter. Peace, Love & Harmony. Laters.
Is it her sister Cleopatra?
@@leclube2282Cash's wife was Sicilian but she also had African roots. Yes, it was very obvious which is why the Klan went after them.
@@timeforchange3786 they made a gorgeous couple, too!
I remember this story.
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It would be fascinating if you can look into the ancestry of others such Johnny Cash, George Clooney and even the Jackson Family. I am not sure if these individuals may be Melungeon as well.
I too have family members that fought, and in some cases, won their freedom for being descendants from a Choctaw woman. My family has Melungeon roots as well.
He is from KY. Like Ava Gardner. Dark good looks
I can't remember the name of the show but the first tv western show in black and white the star of the show was a Cajun man from Louisiana. I remember seeing something about it 10+ years ago. Knowing what i know now I'am curious if he was Creole. (The Lone Ranger scene reminded me 😂)
Have Gun-Will Travel is the name of it. Good Show
Always thought he looked part Mulignan
You are busy
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Cousins, all!
I always enjoyed watching Johnny's work for some reason ,he just had a familiar character and spirit no matter what role he played in , I. Think your on to something deep here ,wonder if he knows the answer
I have a similar ancestor, to Depp , Edward Mozingo. He was an indentured servant who sued his master after his term of indenture had ended.
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Do you know anything about the country musician Charley Crockett? He's from TX. Grew up in south TX, I believe not far from the Mexican border. Later he spent time with an uncle in New Orleans where he began working as a street musician, mentored by a black man. Then he moved around a lot honing his skills--at least in New York, Paris and, I believe, Morocco--maybe more places. In NY he worked with a group of black guys playing on subways in a group called The Train Robbers; notice the irony of playing for change on a subway train while proclaiming yourselves "train robbers". He's now in Austin,TX to my understanding, and hangs out with the likes of Willy Nelson. You might remember him as the co-author and performer of the title song of the movie "Killers of the Flower Moon". He might be a descendent of Davy Crockett. I suspect he might be Melungeon.
I met Charley back in 2013 or 2014 when he was living in Mendocino County, CA. He told me he is Creole.
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For the United States to be the "standard" in information Latin America while not perfect by far has better understanding and acceptance of the totality of who they are regardless of where that ancestor is from.
They should make a film about her story
DNA doesn't lie. Johnny Dell looks like he mixed but we are all mixed. The question is what? We are still all human and that is that really matters. I love genealogical research because it tells us so much about history and human character.
Every genome has segments that match others distantly related. Some of those segments have ethnic markers that can be specific to certain backgrounds. But…the segment has to be in a genomic location that influences outward appearances. In addition, it has to be large enough to cover multiple SNPs. So, DNA does not lie, but it may not be readily visible.
Eloquently put.
Mixed ethnicity, like being French and English is not the same as being mixed racially. He's predominantly European.
His ancestor from almost 400 years ago probably only contributes around 1% of his genetic makeup. A great grandparent is genetically around 12.5% of the descendant, therefore add another 300 years on top and it becomes a very tiny genetic influence.
My brother looks like Johnny. Is also olive type complexion. Same as my mom. No one else in the family is. He's also only one with brown eyes. My kids have brown eyes whereas both sounds of mine and my husbands families all have hazel or blue or green eyes
I have Melungeon roots as my 5th gr grandmother was Shawnee and married a Collins a white man in Appalachia. Also have French and Spanish ancestors.
Theodore Allen's work " The Invention of the White Race" is a good read on this history. You may have already used this source.
Very interesting, it does not surprise me, that he would have Native American ancestry. Great article, thanks I loved it!!! ❤
I would assume Yes.
You are in good company along w/ the King and Elizabeth Taylor.
I am curious about the comment that Melungeons were Sephardic Jews. First time this has come up. It wasn't mentioned in Danielle's fine interview with the Melungeon society person (sorry, forgot name/ organization).
Elvis is undoubtedly melungeon. I'm from the South and yes you're right, it is a incredible Heritage to be part of and had the melungeon people continued creating a cohesive genetic group, it would be highly identifiable. But history just wasn't timing in their favor very sadly. What was going on in the world didn't allow for them to create a more fully differentiated people.
Parts (or all) of my family has been here a very long time (mid-1700s & 1800s?). Unfortunately we didn't know that growing up! People didn't talk about the past. I LOVE ❤ history, ancestry, legacy origins, stories, people!
Yes I think they were leaving out a lot talking only about Sephardic Jews. I believe things I've read that that was part of it, and also Portuguese heavily involved. Possibly the Italians who settled in the Kentucky area could be involved, but they might have come later (Kathy Matea is an example of Italian Kentucky area lineage?)
Black ancestry is also involved of course, and then there's always the question if we can figure out whether that was mostly African or Islanders.
Greetings from the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina 😊😢
I love that side of the Smoky mountains!
Me too re: Mulungeon
Also we forget about King Author ll who came to Kentucky in 536 AD.
70000 welshmen.
Alan Wilson and Baron Blackett 60 yrs research
Genestar the ancestry site claims Depp is mostly English with French Huguenot . Hence his French surname. It also does mention him being related to Elizabeth Key Grinstead.
😊 Depp is busy doing other movies, never getting tied of reporting his own imposters everywhere 😂😂😂😂😂
@NYTN you know we might be related you and me ever thought about that Cause your last Name Romero is my Great Grandmother's Last name before she got married and we both have ties to Louisiana and i was born in South Louisiana
WOW! 1656! Talk about a trailblazer!
Does he have the Melungeon bump?
maybe he'll let us know :D
Or the birthmark 😂
When I was a young teenage girl, my family and I were watching Johnny Depp's movie, Benny & Joon, and my mother turned to me and said, "Jonny Depp looks like you!" I replied, "Thanks, Mom, just what every teenage girl wants to hear!" I never forgot that, and I did notice that she was right. It was especially apparent in that movie because he had shoulder length, wavy black hair. My hair is longer, but the same texture and color. We have the same eye color, maybe the same nose. There's definitely something about him that looks a lot like me, even if my face is a bit more feminine in places.
I realized that Johnny Depp had Melungeon heritage during the Amber Heard trial, and I realized...oh, that's probably why! Then I looked it up and discovered that he is my 8th cousin.
One other thing I wanted to mention...there's no proof that Melungeons were Sephardic Jews and Muslims. That's just one hypothesis. I think that the initial population probably consisted of survivors from Santa Elena and its outlying forts, that were left behind (we know that everyone in the 4 or 5 forts and many people from the town, which was located where modern Hilton Head is located, was left behind) when everyone they could put aboard took a ship to St. Augustine and burned Santa Elena (rather than let the English settlers have whatever they left behind). No ship ever came for the survivors who were left behind. Some of them were likely Sephardic Jews and Muslims, conversios who wanted to get as far from the Spanish Inquisition as they could. I believe that people from this population did often marry Native Americans and subsequently, whoever lived near them, for generations, resulting in a so-called tri-racial isolate population (I say 'so-called' because race is a social construct and the concept of multiple extant human races has no basis in biology).
Many Melungeons claimed that they were Portuguese, and I have that in my family tree as well. There was a court case in which my 6th great-grandmother's sister was claimed to be Portuguese, although we now have Y-DNA evidence that their father's ancestry was African on the male line...possibly as recently as his father, or possibly going back to the Muslim Consequent of Spain (we believe that his father was an African American man, based on the best candidate for who his father is, and based on the court cases of his probable sister and niece, whose marriages to white men were invalidated based on their African ancestry). Of course, this doesn't mean that he wasn't also Portuguese. The mtDNA shows that their mother was of Basque origin. Taken together, this definitely backs up the idea that Melungeons do have some Iberian ancestry, as this is the only branch of my family who I can definitely say was Melungeon, and not just someone who lived near Melungeons. (My 6th great-grandmother's sister was married to Ambrose Collins, who was the brother of Vardy Collins, the first person ever recorded in print as being Melungeon, and after whom Vardy Valley and the Vardy School were named. You can't get much more Melungeon that that!)