This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Thomas/Gilbert/Johnson/Clark/Brown/Winfield Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DMB.2ACI/244.2.1 Message Board Post: No, Lavaree, my cousin was not African American, but I appreciate your offer to help. Thanks a lot. Sue Howard P.S. I forgot to say that I did find her in Indianola, MS, by a stroke of luck.