Q. Any other clues to finding an Indian before 1880? I, too, had rumors of Indian blood in my family. I think this was a romantic notion, among those with ancestors who arrived before 1750, attesting to mountain men and other adventurers in the distance past. My brother asked me, not long ago, whether I had found the Indian in our mother's history. "She had those high cheekbones and black hair," I told him I hadn't found any Indians, and since I had found most of her ancestors back to the immigrants, I didn't think there was an Indian ancestor. But he was not about to take that for an answer, going over more of her physical characteristics. "Well," I said, "she did have one ancestor named Mary Crow, who was married to a Gilmore ancestor, but I am pretty sure she was Scot-Irish." "That must be it," he said, not listening to the rest of the sentence. I am sure he tells his children about the Crow Indian who was grandma's ancestor. And so, what may have started out as a family joke, becomes family history. Joan B ------- End of Forwarded Message "Joan Best" <joanbest1@earthlink.net>