In a message dated 8/4/98 11:43:24 AM Mountain Daylight Time, JYoung6180@aol.com writes: > Katy, I know nothing about this. Of course the Indian ancestry is possible. > However, if I only had a dollar for every unauthenticated story I have heard > about Indian Princesses and Indian ancestry I would be quite wealthy. ;) > > It seems that at one time--just before the turn of the century in the late > Victorian era, it was quite the fad to romanticize one's family history with > exciting tales of American Indian ancestry. Some of these stories are no > doubt true, but the problem comes in identifying the truth from the > "embellishments." Joan: I have over the years, come to the same conclusion. I have never found any information about Mary Chance other than census reports and fading family memories. Katy