The Crofoot name is not native american, as far as anyone has found, and there is not any connection to it with indian lineage, either. Just because it "sounds" indian, there is a predispostion to believe it must be. Perhaps also, people want to think that they are decendants of native americans? The blackfoot and Crow tribes are all located in Montana, and at that time, they lived totally isolated from the people in the American settlements. There were no white visitors to the northwestern plains, as in the area of Montana that the crow and blackfoot tribes lived, until early in the 1800's (ie- Lewis and Clark) I think it would be better served for all of the decendants of the Crofoot clan to focus on how the original Crofoot or Crowfoot or Crawfoot or Crawfut, etc, came to America. I am, as I am sure all of you are, very interested in continuing in the true search of the ancestry of the crofoot line. --- Susan Davis <sukie1941@charter.net> wrote: > >From all materials I have found on the > Crowfoot/Crofoot/Crofut (and others) > name, the Crowfoot name is how it was spelled by Joseph > Crowfoot, the > apparent immigrant from England. A few generations later > (as happened in my > line) the "w" was dropped and several spelling variations > occurred. > > Has anyone yet found out more about his parentage and > lineage? This has > been a mystery up till now. > > Apparently there have been Native Americans who have > married Crofoots (all > spellings). But I have seen no evidence that Joseph > Crowfoot was Native > American. > > The name is supposedly from Crawford and there were many > variations of that > in England. > > Also, please correct me if I am wrong, but I have never > heard of a Crowfoot > tribe. I have heard of Blackfoot and Crow tribes. If > someone has specific > information of a Crowfoot tribe, I would love to hear > about it. > > Susan Davis > Medford, OR > ----- Original Message ----- > > > ==== CROFOOT Mailing List ==== > You may visit Housecalls for free to scan your computer > for viruses and worms. > http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_corp.asp > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online > genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com