Dear goodnite_nurse, I think you'll hear from several people about Native American Breedloves because that's come up on this list before. As for African American Breedloves, I know that a very famous African American Breedlove was Sarah Breedlove, who married a man named Walker and became "Madam C J Walker", one of the first women millionaires in the world by the time she died in 1919. She was the daughter of former slaves from Louisiana. She created hair treatments for African Americans and sold them, originally door-to-door. You can learn more about her at several places on the web, including: http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/walker.html and http://www.madamecjwalker.com/ There's also a new biography of her that got a good review in the New York Times a few months ago: On Her Own Ground : The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker by A'Lelia Bundles List Price: $30.00 Hardcover - 400 pages (February 2001) Scribner; ISBN: 0684825821 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.31 x 9.50 x 6.39 I haven't read it yet, but it's on my list. There's also a juvenile biography from the same author. I have wondered how her parents came to have that name. There were, of course, Breedloves in 19th century Louisiana, so it's possible that some were slave owners. It was not unusual for slave owners to beget children by their slaves, so the name could have been passed on that way. Or alternatively, I suppose some slaves might have borrowed their former owner's name after emancipation. Anyone out there know more about this? Cheers, Marc Breedlove At 08:57 PM 8/4/01, goodnite_nurse@hotmail.com wrote: I have been working on the genealogy of Irvin Breedlove. I talked to his grand daughter today who told me Margaret, the daughter of Irvin attempted to make a claim on the Cherokee Nation years ago. There was some confusion on the g/daughter's part about it not being a legitimate claim. Now I run across the possibility that there is african american ties in the breedlove family. does anyone have any documented facts either about native or african american heritage with Irvin breedlove?