Here is another sample of assuming something that had been carried on for 63 yrs. My husbands' father stated that his mother was french and was born in Quebec. He stated his father was native american and was killed in 1910 because he took a white mans job. Well this story was carried down through the years so much that even the grandchildren believed they were native american. You could could at my father-in-law and swear he was native american. So after searching several years for his parents I happened to remember that he had stated that his sister was married in Wayne County so I went and got her marriage certificate. That one piece of paper gave me a place to look on Census Records and I headed off to the Michigan Library and I was going the Canadian film aisle and out popped this towns name. I snatched that roo of film up and threaded it and the very first page came up and I had found my husbands grandparents along with first three children and then the next census record ten years down the road showed they had six children. But... yes the mother was of French descent but was born in New York to parents who were also born in New York. The father stated on the Census she that he was born in Quebec so I had an approximate date and I hired a researcher to find him. Well lo and behold this man wasn't Native American he was Irish and Scots. His mother was born in Scotland, his father born in Ireland. So since I disproved this clue and I even got the father's death record which also proved he wasn't native american, but you know I have been unable to convince a niece of my husband, who is also into Genealogy but in her mind she is the only correct one and her line reflects only lies that she has continued to believe so much that she went out onto the internet and wrote to the Native American Website and stated that how she grew up believing she was native american and that her great grandmother was forced to change her childrens names and also her married name because she wasn't accepted in the white world but she couldn't prove that yet. Just this past weekend she has decided that since she has had no luck in finding her great grandparents and their parents she has now convinced herself that the great great great grandparents are the parents of the great grandfather and that he was now born in Scotland and that the great great grandparents were buried in an old catholic Cemetery. None of which is true. She lives in a fantasy world and wants her tree to look like royalty and I have given up trying to be helpful and nice because it is a lost cause. She took out of context what I wrote in one paragraph and added lies to make the question I posed look better then the straight facts. And we wonder how we ever manage to find our ancestors with people like her out her on the internet. Yesterday after looking for 20 yrs I was able to finally find my husbands' fourth oldest uncle and only because the World War I registration forms for one of the states have come out on Ancestry.com. I have finally gotten a break on this family and I hope all of the registration forms on all of the states hurry up and get put on the net so I can find the 2 and 3 oldest uncles. Don't we just all love this pouring over of old records? I love it and especially when I have finally cracked one mystery. We are planning a trip to Alaska and our first two stops will be in Wisconsin and in Oregon to vist the national cemetery where this uncle is buried and hopefully I will be able to locate living family. Jean