Dick Eastman's newsletter is out this week http://RootsForum.com. A couple sites he mentioned look interesting. http://www.burkes-peerage.net/sites/common/sitepages/reindex.asp has both free and pay for data. http://www.angelfire.com/tx/carolynegenealogy has some very good information for people searching for Native American ancestors. Speaking of Native Americans, did you know that it is the only race in the world defined by membership in a political entity? The U.S. recognizes only those who are enrolled in federally recognized tribes. That can be very difficult. Every other race if you had an ancestor of that race you are a recognized person of that race. With the Africans in America you can be only very remotely descended from an African and recognized as such (discriminated against because of it too). Not Native American. You can get the discrimination all right by no recognition legally without that membership. I am often asked what the blood quantum is for being recognized by the government. Actually, the feds honor whatever quantum that the tribes choose to use. In some tribes it is 1/4 and in some tribes it is only people born or living on the reservation, others only the children of the mother enrolled in the tribe may be enrolled, some only the children of the father. Canada is even more ridiculous. If you live on the Reserve you are considered to be a full-blood. If you move off the Reserve you change into a half-blood. If a white woman marries an Indian she becomes an Indian and her children are considered full-bloods if they live on the Reserve. If an Indian woman marries a white man she ceases to be an Indian and her children are not considered Indians either. Some system. Only your DNA will tell for sure if you are not enrolled in a tribe or living on the Reserve but the government will not recognize that either. Great fun trying to figure this out legally. When I was a lawyer on the reservation, every case started out with defining if a party was Indian and if the area where the action took place was on the reservation. After that was settled we could determine which court had jurisdiction. Made for interesting law and legal arguments. Bette