This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Robinson / Robeson / Robison / McFarland / Crow / Crowe Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3cDBAIB/8238 Message Board Post: I am lost AND new to this so I apologize if there is anything improper about my query method. I am researching for my friend. I haven't been able to find much at all on her family but there is apparently a file on MyTrees and I can't afford to pay to look at it (and the extraction method is no longer available, says no documents)... so I'm hoping for help here. The people I am trying to get more info on are an Adeline/Adaline Avella ROBINSON born abt Aug. 1858 (we're told could be Robeson/Robison as well) who had a daughter named Avella Millicent MCFARLAND born 1902 ? (seems a long time from Adelines d.o.b.!). From what limited info I've found she (Adaline) married William Thomas MCFARLAND in/around 1873 in Stanton County, Nebraska. That's all I "know" from my internet searching. The general family history is that they lived in/around Nebraska and South Dakota and were Sioux indian (maternal side). I also found a news report from the Nebraska area at the time listing a Mr W.T. McFarland born 1845 as the postmaster and later sheriff for Stanton County and it mentions him marrying a Miss Adeline Robinson in 1873 so I'm assuming this is the same couple but who knows. According to family stories, my friend's grandmother (Betty Crow/e) was Millicent (McFarland-Crow(e)s daughter, who was the daughter of Avella Millicent McFarland who was the daughter of Adeline Robinson. As is often the case, my friend's Grandma claims a Native American link directly to Sitting Bull (I think it was Ms. Robinson who was supposedly his daughter, from one of his last wives). ;-) I am doubtful, but I am not doubtful overall that there is Sioux heritage here. It's just finding out exactly HOW and WHO that's the hard part of course. Grandma says her Grandma was born and lived on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota (right?). Her mother might have been born there too but was 1/2 white. When you do the math the dates of birth don't add up with Grandma's history and it seems like there are too many moms in all that unless they had babies very young, but she is very forgetful and every time we call her the story changes and the names too, so I've been trying to sort it out, and the women seem to like re-using middle names as first names which makes it worse! My friend's Grandma also says she doesn't have a birth certificate and she was born in 1931! How can that be? Please, if anyone can help with these people it will be very much appreciated. I had a reasonable time finding out about my own family history because there were German immigrants fairly recently and lots of unusual names, and a lot of it had been done already by other family members....... this, however, is proving to be a much bigger challenge for me!