Roanoke Descendants Revealed by DNA Test | In Search Of (Season 2) | History

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For centuries, the lost colony of Roanoke has remained a mystery, but new DNA test results could finally tell us what happened in this clip from Season 2, "The Lost Colony of Roanoke". #InSearchOf
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[rbwd]

Dude, the colony was never lost in the first place. They carved a location name into a tree and when people went there to find them, they found Indians with blue eyes. There's no mystery as to where they wound up.

[Lateshift]

ancient astronaut theorists say "yes"


wrong program

[SamAdamsDesigns]

Well this is a weird place to find Zachary Quinto

[JanderSunstar-xb]

of course they exist - the colony moved in with the Croatan tribe. They even left a note. Isn't it obvious.

[jlberry]

So who would I contact about furthering the research? I’m a supposed descendant of the lost colonists. There were two men with the last name Berry. My research concludes that my ancestors were in America before the US was established, more specifically South Carolina, but the paper trail ends in the 1700s.

[thomasgoins]

She did my DNA background report . I had no idea how to read those DNA results.Great that we have her working on our side.

[SirMikeyV]

John brooks, Hettaras we’re my grandparents. Hettaras is Croatoan

[kristinrose]

My grandmother was born Virginia Dare White passed a few years ago and said we are related to John White and that we are part Indian. I took a Ancestry DNA test and didn’t get Indian results, but my sister did 23&me and got .4 Indian results. I’m not sure? My grandmother grew up in Westfield, Ny.

[JonCardwell-mp]

I was born in north Carolina. Where the lumbee tribe of NC is now but they say they are Croatoan. My birth father is blonde hair blue eyes my mother was brown hair brown eyes.

[JonCardwell-mp]

I have a blonde haired blue eyed father I was born in north Carolina like the lost colony. Crostoan. Historical marker on lumbee tribe of NC land now says crostoan lol...

[lvtczfp]

My Mother folks have been in this coastal area of N. E North Carolina hundred of years. Our mtdna, which is not common is I1a. Surnames which are from males are Williams, Griffin, White etc.

[ecuadorexpat]

The Lumbee tribe of NC say that they are the descendants of Roanoke..they have blond blue eyed kids..Spanish ..Black all mixed..

[natdawnmurphy]

Pickett, Lamb, Johnson, Mitchell plus more from Virginia, Maryland, DC, Harrells NC, Wilmington NC, Pender County NC, Duplin County Nc

[sadiebabe]

Those colonists must have had family in England. Has anyone researched the colonist's family in England and matched their DNA with people in in this county. It seems that would solve the mystery.

[j.dragon]

rumor has it that they are still searching

[rosievasquez]

Like I said on the last take that I saw of you guys the The Lost Colony probably mixed with Indian and they never died out they just moved to the Indians and got married with indians

[rosievasquez]

Do they do have your pin in Indian DNA and European DNA

[jonathoncardwell]

I was adopted from NC Robeson county in 1975 and adopted then too. My paperwork from the adoption said my birth father was blonde hair blue eyes andy mother is brown hair brown eyes. I have Scottish descent too. Possibly Jamestown links and possibly the DNA from denisovans and possibly a minute percentage of DNA from either the dutch gaul Assyrians mesopotamia or sumerian in very minute percentages. I am stick in Alabama trying to get to NC to get a real genetics test at unc Pembroke in a lumbee county. Just to see. Dime people in my life since 1975 are trying to prevent me from finding north relatives and from getting my own birth certificate. Some in my ex wifes family and ex coworkers wanted me out of the way for father's days sndy children's birth days over something personal and political they might have led some people I know into violence over it since 1987. I have to have the dna test first.

[johngarnergarner]

A very noble effort, but I think it would be easy to find people in that area with both native and European DNA. That proves absolutely nothing unless you could find someone in England who is known to be a direct descendant of the colonists and who could be matched with someone in eastern North Carolina. I think the obvious conclusion is that the colonists were killed by the natives of the area. To me, the thing that would be conclusive is that after the colony disappeared there was no oral or written history that remained, no one who has claimed to be a grandson, no letters. There's nothing. They just vanished. Had someone survived wouldn't there be any letters or correspondence. Out of 115 people wouldn't someone have tried to make it back to England?