List Administrator: HATCHER email list Site Administrator: HALL, HATCHER, SHEPHERD, TIMBERMAN GenConnect Boards Webmaster: HATCHER Families Resource Center at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher Researching COOK, HALL, HATCHER, HOLTRY, MILLER, SHEPHERD, TIMBERMAN, ZIMMERMAN Hi Halls! I was very interested in Maryann's msg on census taking. It would raise a question in my mind as to how the census taker would list a white man with an Indian wife. Does he record only the father and children? Would he not count the children because they were half Indian? It may be possible that Maryann's historian MAY have been correct regarding a state such as OK where you had large Indian reservations. Census takers may have been keeping separate lists of Native Americans in some states. But I have found many censuses in the eastern and southern states, before the CW, where anyone not "white" was listed as black or mulatto. This included Indians, blacks, and anyone of mixed ethnicity. A child of a white father and Indian mother would be listed as mulatto. Until this was explained to me, I would have easily bypassed a potential clue simply because "Jane Doe" was listed on the census as "black" or "mulatto", not white or Indian. Too often, and I have been guilty, we tend to think in our own modern day definitions. Doesn't always work :-) Cheers, Nel