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Dwight Collins Dawne Collins Mezurek...just post right here any names or dates or locations..I actually don't discuss much genealogy excpt on our eastern mt pages

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Dawne Collins Mezurek Dwight Collins looking for a link to my grandfather Harold B Collins 1915 . Mother Rubie Leonora Webb-Cole Dobbins. Married John W Dobbins. Harold was born in Boyd ,Kentucky. He was the 1st child of Rubie. Raised by Dobbins. Story goes Rubie left John just before or after marriage, and came back pregnant with Harold. Dobbins wouldn't give his Sur name to Harold immediately, but some census show Harold Dobbins. ( Could be typographical error or assumption) From what I was told and from photos, Harold has some Mullengeon or other DNA. The last names caused a family- military upset when Harold joined the military... Not sure how or what. There are no living relatives or connection to the Collins Name. My Grandmother, Harold's wife, very few that are alive, either do not know the family history or are past away. Including my father. I've done some research for Collins and I simple cannot get any where passed a few census reports that I've seen. I'm just trying to find a link, a distant family member, or someone that knows Harold and can sit and help me out with my genes.

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Dawne Collins Mezurek Dwight Collins how or can I also read the Eastern Mt pages?!

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Dwight Collins looks like Harold Berry Collins may have been officially adopted and changed his name, or had it changed for him as a minor.OR the whole dobbins thing is a typo and should read Collins wouldn't be the 1st time I'm checking .

NameHarold B DobbinsBirth Yearabt 1915GenderMaleRaceWhiteAge in 193015BirthplaceKentuckyMarital StatusSingleRelation to Head of HouseSonHome in 1930Cabin Creek, Kanawha, West Virginia, USAMap of HomeCabin Creek, Kanawha, West VirginiaDwelling Number236Family Number236Attended SchoolNoAble to Read and WriteYesFather's BirthplaceKentuckyMother's BirthplaceKentuckyAble to Speak EnglishYesHousehold Members
NameAge
Name
John J Dobbins
Name
Ruby L Dobbins
Name
Harold B Dobbins
Name
Clyde E Dobbins
Name
Aleen V Dobbins
Name
Forest D Dobbins
Name
Eugene E Dobbins
Name
Watson T Dobbins
Name
William H Dobbins
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Virginia, Marriage Records, 1936-2014
Harold B Collins 
GenderMale
Spouse
Doris E Copley
Child
John Philip Collins 
Household Members
Name 

John Philip Collins

Doris E Copley

Harold B Collins

Irene Edith Lament Rainey

Stella Mazurkiewicz

Teofil Lament
Harold B Collins marriage cert

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Dwight Collins harold berry collins

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Dwight Collins just by the geography and cultural hints Harold B may very well be from one of Valentine /collins descendents especially since they were at Cabin Creek..a lot of those collins went up there..I've sent out a cpl feelers let's wait and see that may be a transcription error too.

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Dwight Collins Rubie Leonora Webb-seems to be from Olive Hill, AND there is a Cole involved!!..so I'm betting on Valentine collins descendent I just don't seem to have him in my files..Yet lol

I asked a cpl ppl so let's see what comes back

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Dawne Collins Mezurek Dwight Collins yes, I think k her step father was a Cole! Who is Valentine Collins? And what area??

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Dwight Collins you can copy and paste it into your own it's just various items I don't have them except for on here the thing is he was born in ashland there's one more set of collins I don't have files on so I have to look them up but other than my line it's likely onlt certain collins families would have been born there and not say paintsville or greenup

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Dawne Collins Mezurek So could it be safe to say direct descendant to Valentine Collins?! And assuming Dobbins is typo for all these years... I so appreciate all this info you've sent and shared.. this is exciting. My husband and I plan to drive south this summer and meandor looking for some connections.. it would be nice to meet blood family that is Willi g to share family info and stories...

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Dwight Collins not necessairly valentine there's at least 5 different collins families around there..lol

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Dwight Collins it was the Logan West Vapart but then agin grifith collins had a lot og people around there..see what I mean lol

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Dawne Collins Mezurek Dwight Collins, I also wonder if the Collins/Dobbins name is the cause of the argument involving the military? I do have ancestors.com. I know that's based in public input...there are a few in there that when I did the DNA test, say they are Dobbins and the Info matches...

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ANCESTORS.COM

Welcome to the Ancestors Web Site

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Dawne Collins Mezurek Are you related to me?!

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Dawne Collins Mezurek OK what's the chance there is someone either still alive or that knows info on Rubie, John W, or Harold??

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Dwight Collins Dawne Collins Mezurek no we are most likely not related

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Dwight Collins one more Collins to try are the scufflin' hillbillies a popular wrestling team back when another set of Collins Frank Collins but there's nothing I could find on his extended family he was partners with a Conley ..they were very popular

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Dawne Collins Mezurek Dwight Collins thank you very much for all the info you've put forth... I appreciate it!

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Dwight Collins Dawne Collins Mezurek I'm working on it don't give up and I can just copy the entire conversation to a doc so I'll wait until I give up lol..my Collins were in /Ashland for awhile but pretty sure I know them all not too many there now..the Berry Collins points to Griffin collins line ? but jst haven't stumbled on it yet.

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Dwight Collins found a picture of Ethel 
Ethel Doris Copley

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Dawne Collins Mezurek Dwight Collins yes!! That's my Grandma!!! I found her in 2004. She was bed ridden. She remembered me as a baby!

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Stevie Conley Dwight Collins = repost as PDF? Thanx

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Dwight Collins Stevie Conley..I have lousy word programs I don't have word I have something called Libre and I don't have a master file on Harold anyone can copy and paste it to a word doc..What I dug around and found I just straight posted here so I can maybe p…See More

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Dwight Collins you can look griffin up on google then there's Amos collins clan in /clay co so figuring out Harold ?? who knows I gave it a good try

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Dawne Collins Mezurek Dwight Collins yes you did! Hopefully someone will come forward and own that they are direct descendant and have stories to share!

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Dwight Collins the name seems to be Dobbins all the way back to North Carolina

Jesse J Dobbins
1799–1886
BIRTH 01 APR 1799 • Logans Store, Rutherford, North Carolina, United States
DEATH APR 1886 • Rutherford, North Carolina, United States
married

Elizabeth Tankersley
1799–1880

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Dawne Collins Mezurek Dwight Collins yes... One can trace the Dobbins very far back.. and from the photos I've seen and from photos,,,, Harold is Def not a Dobbins..lol

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Dwight Collins no he is not lol.

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Dwight Collins Dawne Collins Mezurek you may have been writing to one of my Collins friends she only said she was in contact with a granddaughter asking questions ..could that be you? if so I need not msg you, if not you I will send it I will make a copy of this conversation for you..

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John William Dobbins

BIRTH	12 Aug 1891 Gallup, Lawrence County, Kentucky, USA
DEATH	20 Sep 1957 (aged 66) Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
BURIAL	Bohemian Cemetery Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
PLOT	U - 19 - C
MEMORIAL ID	40121049 · View Source

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American Anthropological Association Statement on Race

American Anthropological Association
Statement on Race 
May 1998

The following statement was adopted by the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association, acting on a draft prepared by a committee of representative American anthropologists. It does not reflect a consensus of all members of the AAA, as individuals vary in their approaches to the study of "race." We believe that it represents generally the contemporary thinking and scholarly positions of a majority of anthropologists.

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In the United States both scholars and the general public have been conditioned to viewing human races as natural and separate divisions within the human species based on visible physical differences. With the vast expansion of scientific knowledge in this century, however, it has become clear that human populations are not unambiguous, clearly demarcated, biologically distinct groups. Evidence from the analysis of genetics (e.g., DNA) indicates that most physical variation, about 94%, lies within so-called racial groups. Conventional geographic "racial" groupings differ from one another only in about 6% of their genes. This means that there is greater variation within "racial" groups than between them. In neighboring populations there is much overlapping of genes and their phenotypic (physical) expressions. Throughout history whenever different groups have come into contact, they have interbred. The continued sharing of genetic materials has maintained all of humankind as a single species.

Physical variations in any given trait tend to occur gradually rather than abruptly over geographic areas. And because physical traits are inherited independently of one another, knowing the range of one trait does not predict the presence of others. For example, skin color varies largely from light in the temperate areas in the north to dark in the tropical areas in the south; its intensity is not related to nose shape or hair texture. Dark skin may be associated with frizzy or kinky hair or curly or wavy or straight hair, all of which are found among different indigenous peoples in tropical regions. These facts render any attempt to establish lines of division among biological populations both arbitrary and subjective.

Historical research has shown that the idea of "race" has always carried more meanings than mere physical differences; indeed, physical variations in the human species have no meaning except the social ones that humans put on them. Today scholars in many fields argue that "race" as it is understood in the United States of America was a social mechanism invented during the 18th century to refer to those populations brought together in colonial America: the English and other European settlers, the conquered Indian peoples, and those peoples of Africa brought in to provide slave labor.

From its inception, this modern concept of "race" was modeled after an ancient theorem of the Great Chain of Being, which posited natural categories on a hierarchy established by God or nature. Thus "race" was a mode of classification linked specifically to peoples in the colonial situation. It subsumed a growing ideology of inequality devised to rationalize European attitudes and treatment of the conquered and enslaved peoples. Proponents of slavery in particular during the 19th century used "race" to justify the retention of slavery. The ideology magnified the differences among Europeans, Africans, and Indians, established a rigid hierarchy of socially exclusive categories underscored and bolstered unequal rank and status differences, and provided the rationalization that the inequality was natural or God-given. The different physical traits of African-Americans and Indians became markers or symbols of their status differences.

As they were constructing US society, leaders among European-Americans fabricated the cultural/behavioral characteristics associated with each "race," linking superior traits with Europeans and negative and inferior ones to blacks and Indians. Numerous arbitrary and fictitious beliefs about the different peoples were institutionalized and deeply embedded in American thought.

Early in the 19th century the growing fields of science began to reflect the public consciousness about human differences. Differences among the "racial" categories were projected to their greatest extreme when the argument was posed that Africans, Indians, and Europeans were separate species, with Africans the least human and closer taxonomically to apes.

Ultimately "race" as an ideology about human differences was subsequently spread to other areas of the world. It became a strategy for dividing, ranking, and controlling colonized people used by colonial powers everywhere. But it was not limited to the colonial situation. In the latter part of the 19th century it was employed by Europeans to rank one another and to justify social, economic, and political inequalities among their peoples. During World War II, the Nazis under Adolf Hitler enjoined the expanded ideology of "race" and "racial" differences and took them to a logical end: the extermination of 11 million people of "inferior races" (e.g., Jews, Gypsies, Africans, homosexuals, and so forth) and other unspeakable brutalities of the Holocaust.

"Race" thus evolved as a worldview, a body of prejudgments that distorts our ideas about human differences and group behavior. Racial beliefs constitute myths about the diversity in the human species and about the abilities and behavior of people homogenized into "racial" categories. The myths fused behavior and physical features together in the public mind, impeding our comprehension of both biological variations and cultural behavior, implying that both are genetically determined. Racial myths bear no relationship to the reality of human capabilities or behavior. Scientists today find that reliance on such folk beliefs about human differences in research has led to countless errors.

At the end of the 20th century, we now understand that human cultural behavior is learned, conditioned into infants beginning at birth, and always subject to modification. No human is born with a built-in culture or language. Our temperaments, dispositions, and personalities, regardless of genetic propensities, are developed within sets of meanings and values that we call "culture." Studies of infant and early childhood learning and behavior attest to the reality of our cultures in forming who we are.

It is a basic tenet of anthropological knowledge that all normal human beings have the capacity to learn any cultural behavior. The American experience with immigrants from hundreds of different language and cultural backgrounds who have acquired some version of American culture traits and behavior is the clearest evidence of this fact. Moreover, people of all physical variations have learned different cultural behaviors and continue to do so as modern transportation moves millions of immigrants around the world.

How people have been accepted and treated within the context of a given society or culture has a direct impact on how they perform in that society. The "racial" worldview was invented to assign some groups to perpetual low status, while others were permitted access to privilege, power, and wealth. The tragedy in the United States has been that the policies and practices stemming from this worldview succeeded all too well in constructing unequal populations among Europeans, Native Americans, and peoples of African descent. Given what we know about the capacity of normal humans to achieve and function within any culture, we conclude that present-day inequalities between so-called "racial" groups are not consequences of their biological inheritance but products of historical and contemporary social, economic, educational, and political circumstances.

[Note: For further information on human biological variations, see the statement prepared and issued by the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 1996 (AJPA 101:569-570).]

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AAA Position Paper on Race: Comments?

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As a result of public confusion about the meaning of "race," claims as to major biological differences among "races" continue to be advanced. Stemming from past AAA actions designed to address public misconceptions on race and intelligence, the need was apparent for a clear AAA statement on the biology and politics of race that would be educational and informational. Rather than wait for each spurious claim to be raised, the AAA Executive Board determined that the Association should prepare a statement for approval by the Association and elicit member input.

Commissioned by the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association, a position paper on race was authored by Audrey Smedley (Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview, 1993) and thrice reviewed by a working group of prominent anthropologists: George Armelagos, Michael Blakey, C. Loring Brace, Alan Goodman, Faye Harrison, Jonathan Marks, Yolanda Moses, and Carol Mukhopadhyay. A draft of the current paper was published in the September 1997 Anthropology Newsletter and posted ont the AAA website http://www.aaanet.org for a number of months, and member comments were requested. While Smedley assumed authorship of the final draft, she received comments not only from the working group but also from the AAA membership and other interested readers. The paper above was adopted by the AAA Executive Board on May 17, 1998, as an official statement of AAA's position on "race."