Right, I should have been more clear. While the technical definition of a mulatto is one who has one white parent and one black parent, I was referring in my post to census taker usage. The census takers couldn't always figure out one's "race" any more than we can today and they didn't have a lot of options to choose from. When they came across people who they thought were part Caucasian and part some other, darker-skinned race, they would sometimes list them as mulatto, especially if they were living in a mostly black neighborhood, or if the persons themselves did not know (or state) their "race." Thus some mixed-race white-Indian-black folks, among others, were listed as mulatto. I have even seen cases of people being listed as black in one census, mulatto in another, and Indian in a third. I mentioned this in this case in part because the gentleman in question, and his parents, were from Nebraska, making Native American ancestry, at least in part, a possibility to consider. --- Pat Curtis <anglers@bullshoals.net> wrote: > Mulatto means the child of mixed origin = a > child of a Negro and a white > person. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you�re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com