Cousins, I thought you would find the following article interesting. For those of you who are new to Philbrick/Philbrook research, SIR Winston Churchill (1874-1965), the Prime Minister of England during World War II, was the 7th great-grandson of Thomas PHILBRICK, the emigrant. You will find his lineage at http://users.intercomm.com/nvjack/fylbrigg/d9335.htm#P9337 Enjoy, Nevada Jack ============================================================ The following article is from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright 1999 by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. ============================================================ - Churchill Had American-Indian Ancestors? The grandson of Britain's wartime leader, Sir Winston Churchill, says that he and his grandfather may well have American-Indian blood in their veins. Former Tory MP Winston Churchill told the Boston Globe that it was a "long and deeply entrenched family tradition" that Sir Winston's mother, the glamorous New Yorker Jennie Jerome, had the blood of the Iroquois, one of the most ferocious Indian tribes, in her veins. Mr. Churchill, after studying a portrait depicting the dark, exotic features of Jennie Jerome's own mother, told the paper: "She's got Red Indian written all over her face." He also claimed that his family tree boasts three ancestors who sailed on the Mayflower. "My grandfather would have been enormously proud to think he had in his veins the blood of those who founded America. The whole theme of his life was the unity of the Anglo-American peoples." Mr. Churchill is in America promoting his book, "The Great Republic: A History of America", a compilation of his grandfather's writings about the United States. He has been questioning Wampanoag Indians at the Plimoth Plantation, a Massachusetts historical site, about the history of Indian intermarriage with whites. Mr. Churchill said that his family lineage has been traced back to the Mayflower through Elizabeth Cooke, granddaughter of a Mayflower voyager who reportedly married Daniel Wilcox, one of Jennie Jerome's ancestors. Genealogists who have studied Sir Winston Churchill's ancestry quickly disagreed, however. One historian, Elizabeth Snell, author of "The Churchills: Pioneers and Politicians" said that Mr. Churchill's ideas were romantic but not historically verifiable. She said, "It's timely to believe in this Native American connection. What young Winston is trying to do here, he's trying to make every American connection there is. Any author would do that." To the present Winston Churchill, we should ask the same question we ask of all other genealogists: Where are your sources? ============================================================