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Introduction

The Citie of Raleigh how it became The Lost Colony

The Story of Roanoke, Sir Walter Raleigh’s Lost Colony
By Roberta Estes, copyright 2009

The Lost Colony of Roanoke….a romantic mystery that the history books haven’t treated very kindly, or at best, not accurately. Most people think of a young, loving mother holding an infant daughter, and then the picture fades to grey, oblivion, because we don’t know what happened next.

Almost everyone has their own idea of what happened, and there are almost as many theories as people who are interested in the topic of the Lost Colony. Yes indeed, Virginia Dare, born August 18th, 1587, the first English person to be born on the land that would nearly 200 years later become the United States has become quite the enigma, the mystery that won’t be solved. Did she live? Did she marry? Is she White Doe? Was she the maiden reported to have escaped from the Powhatan slaughter? Does Virginia Dare have living descendants today? And what about the other colonists? Do they?

For the rest of the story - Link

This Website:

is to display the results of our research in support of attaining our goal which is to

discover, if possible, whether any of the Roanoke Lost Colonists survived. Furthermore, others

included on Raleigh's numerous voyages were also "lost" on the shores of what would become

North Carolina. Perhaps they survived as well. The resources being used to solve this mystery are a combination of historical records, genealogy and DNA.

Our Mission:

Our Mission....Is to gather as much data as possible to prove that at least some of the colonists did in fact survive as has been suggested by numerous historical accounts, possibly having assimilated into

the indigenous tribes of the area or having been taken captive, or both. As the various tribes moved inland, the colonists would have moved with them. If the colonists were enslaved, they could have

been sold or traded and not remained as a group, being scattered to various locations.

Our research group will be working to connect the genealogies with the historical records and

genetic results from individuals who are likely candidates to be descendants of the Lost Colonists.

We have assembled names of interest that are compiled from the Lost Colony settlers and also from

the early families found in the areas where the colonists are believed to have settled. Early land transactions and grants reference individuals with many of these last names as Indians.

Possible candidates to be connected to the Lost Colony come from the following groups of

individuals:

1. Those who have any of the surnames of interest and whose genealogy ends abruptly early in

Eastern VA or NC.
2. Those who connect via any of these surnames to the British Isles.
3. Those whose family has an oral history of being connected to the Lost Colony.
4. Those with Native American heritage from Eastern or early NC or VA.

The DNA Project:

We are DNA testing at FamilyTree DNA a Houston, Texas based business.

IF INTERESTED IN JOINING THIS GROUP AND YOU HAVE NOT DNA TESTED

Please use the link provided in the links, to procure your testing kit.

If you have tested with another company, please contact "Roberta Estes"

You can join the Lost Colony DNA Project at FamilyTree DNA.

by using this link:

ORDER YOUR KIT HERE

Note: Drawing by NLP,

my interruption of Governor White's drawings

Admin Lost Colony DNA Project

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Administrators are volunteers and receive no compensation or incentives

from Family Tree DNA, or any other DNA company or any genealogy company

such as Ancestry.com or others

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Donations for DNA Testing can be made directly to Family Tree DNA's Lost Colony General Fund by contacting Family Tree DNA.

Use this link http://www.familytreedna.com/public/LostColonyYDNA
And then on the left hand bar, scroll down to "contribute to general fund" and click on that link. It will then be held by Family Tree DNA until used for funding a Lost Colony DNA test or tests.

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You do not have to test to be part of the group, but if you have a surname of interest, it would help document your lineage. To join the research group contact one of the staff via

email links at staff bios.

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by invitation only,. Write us about joining..

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We thank you for your support of our project!

Group's Profile

The Lost Colony Genealogy and DNA Research Group, is composed of staff members and interested parties, possible descendants. We are grouped together under this name for research and study. We all are volunteers who have a desire to know what happened to the Lost Colonists, and others who were left on the shores of the New World. We receive no compensation for our work.

You can read the biographies of the staff members by using the link above.

Contact Information

Electronic mail: General Information: robertajestes@att.net
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A NOTE ON MUSIC PLAYED IN ENGLAND WHEN OUR COLONISTS LEFT:

The music playing is composed by William Byrd (1543-1623) was one of England's most gifted and respected composers of the late Renaissance. Justly called "a father of music" even during his lifetime, he had that rare ability to see the future without being rejected by his own time. His vocal music in particular stands supreme amongst all of the time, being, in his own words, "framed to the life of the words", instead of being constructed solely on musical logic as in the past. He probably studied with Thomas Tallis, was appointed organist of Lincoln Cathedral in 1563 (aged 19!), and to the prestigious post of "Gentleman of Her Maiesties Chappell", co-organist with Tallis, in 1569. His music for the "virginalls" (the word then included what we today separate as harpsichord, spinet and virginal) is only a tiny portion of his work, but he brought the style to maturity virtually singlehandedly.

Pavans and Galliards. The Pavan was the ceremonial entrance dance of the time, "a kind of staide musicke, ordained for grave dauncing" (Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Music, Thomas Morley, 1597). It was always paired with a Galliard, "a lighter and more stirring kind of dancing", properly with the same pulse but in triple time, for the young (but 'proper') bloods to introduce their skill and energy. It was thus a totally respectable form, yet free of church restrictions, for Byrd to present his new world of music.

John Sankey is the musician.

http://www.sankey.ws/harpsichord.html

All my harpsichord recordings are Copyright © John Sankey, 2000, under the Berne convention in order to protect the right of all to continue to use them freely. Anyone may copy, link to, or distribute any of them as much as they wish as long as as long as this notice of copyright and permission to further copy is distributed with all copies. You are free to modify them as you wish for your personal use, but I require that solely my original unaltered files be posted or distributed to others. No one may restrict their further use as above in any way, by collection copyright or any other means. The courtesy of a site reference or credit is always appreciated.

The art work on this website is my (Nelda L. Percival) original art work and has not been released to any person or organization other then for the use of the Lost Colony Genealogy and DNA Research Group and the store front owned by the same. My art work has never been part of the Lost Colony Center for Science and Research's property. My art used here and at the store front was drawn precisely for the projects run by Roberta Estes and ownership has not been otherwise released. This project also uses the artwork of Dr. Ana Oquendo Pabon, the copyright to which she has retained as well. Other art works are the copyrights of the originators and may not be copied without their permission.

All DNA Content on this site belongs to the individuals who tested and or their representatives . The person who tested does not give up ownership of their DNA or DNA results by posting them here.

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Some Native American art work is from http://www.firstpeople.us Some of their art was used as a bases for different creative graphics.

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