Edward- That's true about the blue skin, but, I was just kinda hoping that we could say the Boggs were true "blue bloods" (you know, in the royal sense) which sounds much more fun than just "Black Dutch"...can we make ourselves 'honorary' blue bloods? Or, Blue Blood Black Dutch? But here's a quandary; my father contends that the "Dutch" part would be the 'slang' for 'Deutsch', or, 'German'...and that they intermarried with the Indians. Also, even growing up in Washington State, he was told by his paternal grandmother (pure Scottish, not from the Boggs line) whenever she was mad at him, that he got his wild ways from his mothers' Indian side (Boggs/Ferguson) and, that he was 'Black Dutch'. Go figure. He never asked her what that meant, and, the Boggs aren't even german, so that leaves out the translation of Dutch=Deutsch. How will we ever figure this out? Can we all decide on a definition that we like, and 'vote that in', or, is that cheating? Pam Marks