When I first started doing genealogy I began working on my 2nd great grandfather, Rev. John W Taylor, born in 1815. My grandfather's cousins wrote me that John W. Taylor's father was captured by an Indian tribe when he was a small child. When he grew to manhood he married the chief's daughter which made my grandfather part Indian. You can imagine the fun I had with that one......hate to admit that I am terribly gullible. However to the day he died my grandfather believed the story and that we had Indian blood running through our veins. ************************************ Ah, yes, the beloved "family tradition" as the end-all (and substitute) for the "truth." > > >