This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YNJ.2ACIB/267.415.422.1.1 Message Board Post: In your reply to Jane you state, "She is listed as "white" in the 1900 U.S. Census while living with her grandmother,". I would like to point out that even up into the 1900's it was not "cool" to be indian, and many went to great lengths to hide their native heritage and many were listed as white on the census. I've been told that in some places it was illegal! For instance, I have a gg grandmother who was at least 1/2 Cherokee and lived in Ohio. If it had been known she would have been arrested and taken to Indian Territory.