http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2011/11/guineas-of-west-virginia.html Stories, quotes and anecdotes. Sun, 19 May 2013 20:12:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2011/11/guineas-of-west-virginia.html#comment-1250266 darla blair Sat, 16 Feb 2013 23:21:02 +0000 http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2008/11/the-guineas-of-west-virginia/#comment-1250266 My mother is a Mayle; both her mother and her father were Mayles. I am married to a caucasian man. I have 5 children, they do not look black, white, or Native American but peole ask them ALL the time, are you Portugese? Arabian, Jewish, one even has ice blue eyes. They are very beuatiful .

]]> http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2011/11/guineas-of-west-virginia.html#comment-486879 Jim Thu, 24 Nov 2011 02:06:48 +0000 http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2008/11/the-guineas-of-west-virginia/#comment-486879 Myth and mystery always seems to follow mixed-race people in Appalachia. The ‘Guineas’ sound much like Tennessee’s ‘Melungeons,’ even some surnames are the same. My own family, the Hatfields of southern West Virginia, refer to themselves as ‘Black Dutch,’ a term that appears to be associated with mixed-race families.

]]>