This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Roper, McBride Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kgDBAEB/706.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: James M. ROPER (b 20 JAN 1906, d 16 MAR 1974 - Columbus, KS) is shown enumerated in the 1920 Census with his parents James M. and Amanda ROPER, of Lyon, Cherokee County, KS. The eldest child in the household, George ROPER, age 18, James M. ROPER, Jr., 14, and ALL of the younger children are shown to have been born in KANSAS, so this family seems to have been in Kansas since at least 1902. It appears to me that the Census record for your grandmother in 1930 would be amongst the records for the household of John and Mary McBRIDE, of Quapaw, Ottawa County, OK (Enumeration District 34). That record shows a Josephine McBRIDE born in 1907 in MO, with Father born in Indiana and Mother born in KS. Josephine's parents appear to have married about 1900. I can send you this Census record if you like. It is unclear to me the basis for your belief that the McBRIDEs might have been of Native American origin or the basis for the belief that this Josephine might have been a LINSCOTT. I would suggest that you use traditional genealogical techniques to VERIFY each piece of information you find and to cross check each fact using several sources. I believe that if you push back to previous Census enumerations you will probably find that Josephine is consistently a McBRIDE and that the record you found is merely coincidental.