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Common Surname and County List:
Hazeltucky (Bear Creek) Melungeons are a Kin or Band of a larger Diaspora of Melungeon people known as The Great Lakes Nation or Lakeminite Pocket. Below is a list of common Lakeminite Melungeon surnames and counties from which this specific pocket of Melungeon people descends and migrated from, and a list of counties those families migrated to. Each pocket consists of a handful of Melungeon Kinnits. Kinnits are indicated by color.
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SURNAMES​
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Adams
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Barnett
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Bowling/Bollin(g)
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Bennett
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Blair
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Breedlove
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Brown
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Bowman
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Boyatt/Boyd
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Browning
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Bunch/Punch
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Camp
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Campbell
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Carnes
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Chaffin
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Childers/Childs/Childress
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Chavis
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Cornett
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Courtney
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Cox
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Collins
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Crabtree
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Davis
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Deathredge
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Duncan
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Davis
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Denham​​
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Dority/Daugherty
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Estes
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Freeman
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Fugate
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Gambill
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Gibson/Gipson
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Goodman
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Gowen/Goin
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Grider
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Hannah
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Harris
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Hawkins
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Henson
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Hensley
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Honeycutt
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Johnson
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Jones
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King
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Lane
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Lawson
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Mitchem
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Mullins
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Moore
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Moss
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Nolan
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Osborne
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Owens/Owings
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Oxendine
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Nichols
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Perkins
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Porter
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Rhea
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Russell
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Shelton
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Sindarsnood
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Sizemore
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Sloan
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Slusher​
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Thompson
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Troxell
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Turner
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Vance
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Vanover
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Young
ORIGIN COUNTIES
TN:​​​
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Anderson
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Claiborne
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Fentress
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Hancock
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Hawkins
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Overton
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Jackson
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Putnam
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Scott
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Smith
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KY:
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​​Cumberland
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Harlan
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Lawrence
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McCreary
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Pike
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Russell
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Wayne
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Whitley
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NC:
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Alleghany
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Ashe
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Avery
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Mitchell
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Watauga
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Wilkes
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Yancey
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VA:​
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​Lee
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Russel
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Scott
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Smyth
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Tazewell
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Wise
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Wythe
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WV:
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​​Logan
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Mcdowell
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Mercer
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Mingo
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Monroe
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Raleigh
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Wayne
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Wyoming
MIGRATION COUNTIES
MI:​​
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Bay
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Macomb
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Monroe
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Oakland
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Saginaw
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Sanilac
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Washtenaw
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Wayne
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Other Lakeminite Kinnits include:
OH:
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Cuyahuga
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Eerie
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Fulton
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Lucas
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Ottowa
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Summitt
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Williams
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IN:
(This diaspora is now separate from the Lakeminite Diaspora and are known as the Michiana and includes 2 MI counties.)
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Elkhart
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LaPorte
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Marshall
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Starke
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St. Joseph
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Berrian (Michigan)
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Cass (Michigan)
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Kinnit Color Key:​​
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Hazeltucky
Horseshoe
Black River
Crow Island
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