This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Adams,Bush,Ihrig,Pitt, Pitts,Newsom,Parker,Mahan,Wade,and more! Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GKB.2ACE/272.1.3.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi, I also had family that went to Douglas CO, and Hickory and Benton CO'S MO and then to OK,OR, on my mothers side, The Black Dutch is a made up race to cover that they had NATIVE AMERICAN in them, my grandma Bush told us she was Black Dutch for there was alot of Germans in MO that came from OH,PA, back in the late 1800 hundreds and she had black eyes and Black hair and she was 1/2 Cherokee and born in MO. I had Adams, Ihrig,Breasher,Miller's in MO. I was born in OK myself and both side of my family were Indian, I just found this out a few years back. so when you hear BLACK DUTCH in your family, they were Indian. Have a good day. Sethie Pitt