This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Martin/Basiliere, Martin/Bergeron, Martin/Suprenant(Soper) Classification: Queries Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YRB.2ACE/241.250.251.1 Message Board Post: We're not related in any way but your message board conversations about Indian blood caught my attention. You are following the same path as my cousins and I trying to figure out the same thing. My paternal line of descent goes from Quebec, Canada to Keeseville, NY to Burlington, VT as well. My paternal grandmother insists we're Mohawk and my uncle - my father's brother - remembers an Indian woman and visiting a reservation when he was young. My uncle thinks it was a relative of my paternal great grandmother Josephine Bergeron. My mother remembers my father having stories about the Indians, a reservation straddling a river and bootlegging between Canada and New York. My grandmother has Alzheimers, my uncle doesn't want to talk about it and I haven't seen my father in fifty years. And my cousins and I aren't finding any documentation to support what we're being told. My grandmother also told us that we won't because if you could get away with being French Canadian when you crossed from Canada into New York or Vermont, you did. They did it to avoid the prejudice and limitations they would deal with as Indians. I've gone through some rolls of microfilm to research the Keeseville, NY church records and have, on rare occasion, noticed a notation on the side of a record "mixed blood". That's as close as I've come to finding anything to support the possibility of Indian blood in any of these "French Canadian" families. I wish you well with your research.