The Trahern's in the choctaw nation enrolled are from my family, and are not related to the Trahan family, but there were Trahan's in the territory prior to statehood, so they could be choctaw as well ----- Original Message ----- From: <JohnnyMikeCraven@aol.com> To: <CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 12:09 AM Subject: Re: [CHOCTAW-SE] William Trahern -- William Trahorn > In a message dated 8/11/2002 5:13:38 PM Central Daylight Time, > lkaj426@bellsouth.net writes: > > > > my last name is Trahan which has many differt spellings could they be the > > same as my last name which is also spelled Trahern and many other ways > > > > Hello ikaj426, > > in the Index of the Spanish Archives of West Florida from 1780 to 1810 > that I recently came across, I encountered many references with the name > Trahan. > > Whether these Trahan's are related to the Trahern or Trahorn mentioned > previously, I don't know but it would seem logical to me. > > John Craven > New Orleans > > > ==== CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST Mailing List ==== > Need more CHOCTAW information. Try Judy White's NATIVE AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER at http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native for rolls, newsletters, lookups, articles, etc. >