I am sure we all thank you Frankie, I for one am too busy getting my southern genealogy together to get involved with more than finding up my Bolling ancestors at this time. After that I plan to get involved in a study of Gettysburg. One must learn from his mistakes. Ken At 10:34 PM 7/13/98 -0400, Frankie wrote: >Perhaps an item of interest.... >In 1924, Virginia passes an " Act to Preserve Racial Integrity", outlawing >miscegenation and denying certain rights to anyone that was not 100% white. > Legislators made an acception to this rule, stating that citizens with one >sixteenth Indian blood were classified white, This was done in an effort >to save many influential family members of prestigious families from >falling under the jurisdiction of this law. [ "The Pocahontas Exception"]. > >Frankie > > > >