Abenaki has my vote. They were located from NY state west to the coast with other Algonquin tribes (Penobscot and others), south to Virginia and north well into Canada. They lost huge numbers of their population due to the epidemics the Europeans brought and so the nomadic Abenaki (People of the Dawnland, ie, east) who were mainly hunters and fishermen, were driven further east by the invading Iroquoian peoples like the Mohawk and Oneida. The Iroquois built more permanent settlements and spoke a different language with different cultural beliefs. They were also better at negotiating alliances with different European groups due to the availability of large numbers of them (read warriors) in one place. The Native ancestor I searched for on my Roblee side I believe was Catherine, no last name, who was born in Vermont and married into the Cross family (married to my Calvin O. Roblee b 1847). I have yet to prove this though, and it may not happen in my life time unless I can get my father's cousin or her daughter to participate in some DNA studies. Due to their nomadic nature, the Abenaki were unable to point to "ancestral lands continuously occupied" for US claims and so were just ruled to be extinct and therefore not recognized. The Canadian government does not share this view and I had a nice visit to the (extinct?) village of Odanak in Quebec last summer where the locals knew all about the people who lived in Warren and Hamilton Counties, NY! The other Abenaki settlements in Swanton VT and Old Town, ME would probably also disagree that they feel extinct. You mean there were other Native ancestors????!!! Phyllis