Don't give up, keep searching. We found ours on the Dawes and now my kids and husband are Choctaw Tribal members. But what is better than that is all the new "cousins" I have found and we are now sharing info! All these years and we never knew them! I can search on my end if you need help, let me know...it is so worth finding lost family, the Indian Tribal Membership is just gravy, the real meal is in the culture, history and lost family members. Carla

I'm not sure if this was directed at me but I wanted to respond to it anyway. I hope that is OK because I have explored every other avenue I have been told about. My husband's grandmother, Mary Headley, was a white woman born in 1873-1874, who had a child, with a man who family legend says was 1/2 black and 1/2 cherokee, who would have been born in Tenesee (year unknown). No one knows what happened to the child, as he was not listed in the newspaper account of the mob slaying that killed Mary and her current "husband (their marriage was illegal, but we do have an application for a marriage to Ed Chalmers from 1898 dated three months before they were killed in 1898)." However though the family has the name Frank Burton the only Frank Burton I have found of that era and location (Oklahoma Indian territory) Married another black woman around 1893-1894, about the time Mary's child, my husband's father was born. The only documents prior to the mob slaying I have found so far are! the marriage application and a court record where her father was accused of attempted murder of a black man over a child that Mary did not want the man to take with him when he moved out of her father's house. I am really grasping at straws which is also how I found the documents I have uncovered so far. If you or anyone you know can help, Please please ask me questions or give me leads for places to search, anything at all! Thank you!!! Patty Patty -----Original Message----- From: soarsister@cableone.net To: indian-territory-roots@rootsweb.com Sent: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 3:40 PM Subject: Re: [INDIAN-TERRITORY-ROOTS] Heritage Don't give up, keep searching. We found ours on the Dawes and now my kids and husband are Choctaw Tribal members. But what is better than that is all the new "cousins" I have found and we are now sharing info! All these years and we never knew them! I can search on my end if you need help, let me know...it is so worth finding lost family, the Indian Tribal Membership is just gravy, the real meal is in the culture, history and lost family members. Carla ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIAN-TERRITORY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more.