📚 Books
- Delaware’s Forgotten Folk: The Story of the Moors & Nanticokes — C.A. Weslager (also on JSTOR)
- The Nanticoke Community of Delaware — Frank G. Speck, 1915 (Smithsonian Digital Library)
- Gouldtown: A Very Remarkable Settlement of Ancient Date — William Steward, 1913 (Internet Archive)
🌐 Websites & Online Resources
- Mitsawokett — History and genealogy of Native American communities of Delmarva
- Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation — Official tribal website
- Nanticoke Indian Tribe — Nanticoke Indian Association, Delaware
- Nanticoke Indian Museum — The only Native American museum in Delaware (Millsboro, DE)
- Achimwit Museum — Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape cultural heritage museum
- Newspapers.com — Largest online historical newspaper archive
👨👩👧👦 Family & Lineage Research
- Ancestry of Bishop James E. Hanzer — Hansor/Hanzer family traced to Aminidab Hansor (b. 1688)
- The Durhams of Kent County, Delaware — Durham family traced from Pittington, England (1558) to Bermuda (1600s) to Kent County, DE
- Ancestral Durham Research — Extended Durham lineage documentation
- Puckham: An Identified Indian Family — Family identification research
- The Moors of Delaware — Kent County community history
- Iberian Roots: Gonzalez, Rodriguez, Francisco — Spanish/Portuguese ancestral connections (Sisco/Francisco and Driggus/Rodriguez families)
📜 Primary Sources & Archives
Family Bibles
- Perkins-Adams-Morris-Jackson Bible
- Emily C. Johnson Wright Bible
- Carty-Carter-Wyatt Bible
Cemeteries
- Manship (Immanuel Union) — Near Cheswold, DE
- Fork Branch (Little Union) — Near Dover, DE
- Harmony UM — Near Millsboro, DE
- Handsor Cemetery — Ontario, Canada (migration-era burials)
Military & Legal Records
- United States Colored Troops (USCT) — Civil War service records
- Civil War Pension Records
- Apprenticeship documents (e.g., binding of Warren Wright’s children, 1843)
- 1855 Harmon case — Landmark case regarding sale of gunpowder to “mulattos”
Government & Archival Resources
- Delaware Public Archives — State archival records
- Library of Congress: Delaware Local History & Genealogy
🗺️ Geographic & Community Studies
- Mitsawoket: The Community on Pumpkin Neck — 17th-century community site
- Cheswold (formerly Moortown), Delaware — Little Creek and Duck Creek Hundreds, Kent County
- Indian River, Delaware — Heart of the Nanticoke community in Sussex County
- Gouldtown, New Jersey — Mixed-blood settlement in Cumberland County
- Gingaskin Reservation — Northampton County, VA (dissolved early 19th century)
- The DE-to-MI Migration — Families moving to Cass and Van Buren Counties, Michigan (1855–1875)
- Indiana and Oklahoma — Lenni-Lenape diaspora connections
🗣️ Language & Cultural Preservation
- A Vocabulary of the Nanticoke Dialect — Collected in 1792 from “Mrs. Mulberry,” widow of the last Nanticoke chief (also available as PDF on Wikimedia)
- A Closer Look At Lenni Lenape Clothing — Traditional regalia as living tradition (Achimwit Museum)
🧬 DNA & Genomics
- Genotype Scout — Privacy-first raw DNA analysis tool by Written In The Genome
- GRAF-pop — Distance-based ancestry prediction method (10k reference markers)
- VISAGE Consortium — Predicting appearance, age, and ancestry from DNA (EU H2020 project)
- MDLP K16 (via GEDmatch) — Multi-component admixture ancestry estimation model
- Y-DNA Phylotree (ISOGG) — Y-chromosome haplogroup reference tree
- YFull YTree — Detailed Y-DNA phylogenetic tree with ancient DNA samples
📰 Historical Newspapers & Clippings
- Newspapers.com — 466+ million pages of historical newspapers
- Analyzing Historical Racial Folklore Clipping — Early 20th-century racial pseudoscience documentation
- Various Delaware & Maryland historical newspaper archives
🔑 Key Scholars & Researchers
- Dr. Louise Heite & Edward Heite — Research on “invisible Indian” phenomenon and documentary genocide
- C.A. Weslager — Delaware’s Forgotten Folk
- Frank G. Speck — Anthropological studies of the Nanticoke (Smithsonian)
👤 Author’s Public Profiles & Platforms
- Written In The Genome (Official Site) — The primary research blog by Jequan Davis focusing on genetic genealogy and Delmarva history.
- Genotype Scout — A free, privacy-first, zero-footprint web application for analyzing raw autosomal DNA data.
- Jequan Davis on GitHub — Open-source repositories and software development projects.
- Jequan Davis on Facebook — Personal profile for direct communication.
- Written In The Genome (Facebook Page) — The official social media page for the project.
- Written In The Genome Community Group — A collaborative Facebook group for discussions on genealogy and genetics.
