JSTOR Advanced Search for "Melungeon" - 60 results
Refined advanced search for "Melungeons" - 150 results
Refined to "Melungeon" and "Appalachia" - 33 results
Best hit: "The Melungeons: A Mixed-Blood Strain of the Southern Appalachians" - Edward T. Price
Content-based thing I learned from an article in this database: The Melungeons in Scott County, Virginia were "frequently called 'Ramps,'" probably after the term for a type of wild onion known as rampion which is grown and eaten in the spring in that geographic area.
Searching item/tip learned from this type of database: I'm not sure this is new knowledge but it was very obvious with this database that making a term plural made a huge difference in terms of results. When searching "Melungeon," I received only 66 hits. When I pluralized the term, the results more than doubled to 150. That makes a major difference as far as the information gathered.
The searching process: JSTOR was one of the most straight-forward, user-friendly databases we used in this class. The search screen was basic and intuitive and there were no unnecessary "hoops to jump through." I found lots of relevant results with simple searches from the advanced search screen.
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