To Jim who asked "why does anyone want to be an Indian?" For avid genealogy researcher's, its not "wanting to be" DAR, Indian, Royalty, etc., its just finding those ancestor's. We just want to know the people that have made us what we are today, and why we ended up being born where we were, etc. Some even want to know for health reasons. I also have a love for history, and there are certainly many lessons in that area to be found in genealogy research. I also have many Rev. War ancestors, but I am not interested in becoming DAR, and I'm not. Nor am I interested in claiming royalty. I do love to tell of the "Black Sheep" members of my ancestry - of which there are many. Their stories are the most interesting - and they were not famous for their deeds. I don't want any of my present relatives to start getting smug (can't do anything about the dead ones!) I look at the names of those Native Americans listed in "Cherokee Emigration Records" and wonder about the stories behind the names they were given, and I'm sure there is a story with each one. It is sad that we don't have the records to let us know. What kind of a life would someone have being named: "Evil Spirit", "Big Mush", "Bird's Bill", "Cramp", "Going Along", "Human Tracking", "Spring Frog", "Striped Lizard", "The Dog's In Him", "The Naked Man", "Dreadful Water",and "Scattered Meat". These were all real people, with homes and lands and families, who were ousted from those lands and sent west. One of my sons looked at a circular pedigree chart I printed out for him, and remarked, "It took all those people just to make me!!" That sums it up pretty good. Donna