The Hidden Bloodlines of Harlan County — Surnames That Came Through the Gap and Never Left
Most people who know Harlan County know one thing about it. Coal. Bloody Harlan. The strikes of the 1930s. Almost nobody asks what Harlan County was before the coal operators arrived with the railroad in 1911 and bought the mineral rights from beneath the hollow floors where the founding families had been farming since the 1790s. This video is about what was in those hollows before the coal. The Scots-Irish families who came through the Cumberland Gap in the 1790s and turned into the Poor Fork and the Clover Fork and the Martin's Fork and built communities in geographic isolation for 120 years. The German families whose names like Helton show up in the Harlan County records as distinctly non-Scots-Irish surnames that trace back to the Pennsylvania German migration. The Cherokee bloodlines that the paper records classified away but that the DNA testing of contemporary Harlan County descendants is now revealing in families that have always identified as European. Howard. Sizemore. Middleton. Helton. Cornett. Lewis. Cawood. Hensley. Ball. The surnames that came through the Cumberland Gap and never came back out. The Harlan County courthouse records are at kdla.ky.gov. The Knox County records that precede them are indexed at familysearch.org. And the DNA is testable tonight. Harlan County Kentucky, Harlan County history, Bloody Harlan, Appalachian ancestry, hidden bloodlines Appalachia, Cherokee ancestry Kentucky, Scots-Irish Harlan County, German Appalachian settlers, Cumberland Gap history, Poor Fork Kentucky, Sizemore genealogy, Howard Kentucky ancestry, Hensley Settlement Kentucky, Appalachian genealogy, eastern Kentucky history, coal mining history Kentucky, Appalachian DNA ancestry, hidden Cherokee ancestry, Knox County Kentucky, Black Mountain Kentucky #harlancounty #AppalachianAncestry #HiddenBloodlines #CherokeeAncestry #ScotsIrish #GermanAppalachian #CumberlandGap #HarlanCountyHistory #AppalachianGenealogy #EasternKentucky #HensleySettlement #SizemoreKentucky #AppalachianDNA #BloodHarlan #appalachianhistory #america
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