Regarding Fort Mims: I find this all very interesting, it's like we are all meant to bring this into the present. All the surnames coming back to talk to each other, it's pretty incredible. Personally, I feel a little haunted by the whole thing. I am in the 7th generation since this occurrence and can't help feeling a bit driven. During my research it seems that Fort Mims was more of a family dispute between the half bloods and full bloods. Too many people were related to one another, on both sides (friendlies vs hostiles) . I keep wondering about what happened, feeling like I want to know why it ended up the way it did. I kind of figure the half bloods liked dancing in the two worlds, and the full bloods didn't and it created a large conflict, especially when Tecumseh was trying to unite all Indian nations against the whites and their ways. Though there had been massacres and battles before this, Fort Mims was a turning point, it set precedent to what was to come throughout the continent. It was a very important happening in American History, and I think there are reasons it has been basically left out of our history books ('cept for Alabama history). I think one reason being, Andrew Jackson used it as an excuse to attack the Creeks, claiming the inhabitants of Fort Mims were white, but they were not, they were mixed. It was an immense land grab, and the creeks on both sides were not any where closely compensated for their land. Love that Creek Indian Researcher! http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~texlance/main.htm Here is a list of traders in the creek nation, 1804 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~texlance/earlyresidents/1804traders.htm Debts of indians and indian countrymen, 1806 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~texlance/earlyresidents/treatydebts.htm Claims of Friendly Creeks for losses during the creek civil war http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~texlance/earlyclaims/friendlycreekclaims1.htm For all you related to the stedham/stiddem/Stidham line here is GW Stidham's creek roll http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~texlance/emigrants/stidhamroll1.htm