In a message dated 1/27/03 7:27:21 AM Pacific Standard Time, griffith@freenet.tlh.fl.us writes: > > I believe this is a corruption of black Deutsche, or German. my Mom used > to say we were Dutch but I found out we are German. > It took me many years to figure out that's what my grandmother meant when she said she was Black Dutch. So many things made sense when I figured that out. Dorothy Blankenship