I am wondering when does someone list another race? If someone is 1/16 Indian but mostly white, they probably would put white. So how far back do we look to see if there was anyone that was Indian that was listed as such? I thought that race was listed on the birth certificate, but the ones I have of my children do not show race. Now we fill out the race when census is done, how was it done back when? Did the person taking the census decide what race you were by looks? Or what? I also have another question, what if someone is half and half of something? I just became a grandmother this August, and my grandson's father is from Morroco he is an Arab, what race is that? And what would my grandson be? And with the way things are now, maybe he would not want anyone to know that, so he could go with his mothers race. See what I mean, maybe it is true, but due to treatment of the Indians , it was better to keep it in the family. We may never know for sure. I am working on several family lines that I am related to that have stories of Indian blood, my father side my mother side, my husbands side. Not all of this can be a misunderstanding. My aunt has found a John Pate Charles Pate and Thomas Pate in Indian census of 1830 and 1840 does that ring a bell with anyone? That is all she sent me, I do not have any dates of birth or anything else to go on right now. Kim ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!