This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Scott, Bacak Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SSB.2ACE/2276 Message Board Post: This was my original finding for my Grandfather and my Great Aunt: From Ancestry.com, North Carolina Birth Index 1800-2000, Catawba County, 1942, S, Image 5: Index to Vital Statistics 1913 ----Pg.447 WALTER SCOTT - Race: C - Sex: M -Date of Birth: 4/3/1917 - Parents: SCOTT, ANDREW W. & ALICE Township: M - Book: 2 - Page: 994 Also, same page - ANNA SCOTT - Race: C - Sex: F - Date of Birth: 1/24/1915 - Parents: SCOTT, ANDREW WILSON & ALICE Township: V - Book: 1 - Page: 899 Knowing that they were both born in Catawba County, I did not know what the "Township" indicators meant (see the text above). I was hoping that I could identify the specific town they were born in, by finding out what Townships "M" and "V" were referring to. Do you know, or know where I can find out what they indicate? Interestingly, they were both listed as "colored", when they were in fact (dark-skinned) Cherokee. This is one of many descrepencies I am finding in my research. This was not corrected until the census in 1920. I am trying to find out if they were living in a commonly populated Cherokee area of North Carolina for that general period, as many Cherokee escaped up north when government forces rounded the "Indians" up and forced their relocation to Oklahoma in the early 1800's. Thank you so much for any assistance you might be able to lend. Sincerely, Richard Martin