This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jackson/Christiansen/Christensen Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Xgk.2ACEB/5949.1.1.1.1.1.2.2 Message Board Post: Thank you for such an informative e-mail. If President Jackson did not have any children, then the Indian Heritage ends there unless we are related through his brothers. Who are they and how can I research them? It has to be a direct decendent to claim heritage. I am having trouble getting passed my grandfather Wallace Eugene Jackson as he passed when my mother was 12 or 14 in 1943 or 1945. He married Edith K. Christensen (?) there are 3 spellings in my mother's social security papers. As usual, word was passed she was related to either President or General Jackson. Not only is this a lesson on our heritage, but also U. S. History as well, this is not in vain, even if we find we may be off base. Thank you again for such an informative e-mail.