I've been riding a research pony into the interregnum between the end of Spain in Florida and the beginning of the U.S. for awhile, and I can attest to wandering off into a swamp. In addition to the regular void, hiatus, or whatever non-recording situation you have in general, I think that I had part-Creek ancestors on both sides of my family, then in Florida pretending or aspiring to be considered to be White. The prospect of finding documentary evidence of THAT seems impossible. <Major curse word!> I am pretty sure that both of my ancestors born in Florida around 1821 were part of extended families then already here (how or why I don't know), but I can't even fit them into a family tree! The oral history that I have is mostly silence, and I'm pretty sure that much of the rest was deliberately meant to mislead me. The recorded facts are nothing but tantalizing puffs of smoke, and I drift among these things in a haze. RW Russell James wrote: >So, I hope that provides something of an answer. >Anyone interested in research during this period >(1822-1850), you are in for quite a ride!!!!!!!!!!! >