This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DhB.2ACE/826.1.3.3.1.1.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: dear trina , We have a lot of common names in our back grounds. For instance on my mother's side my gggrand mother was also a holland and she married a burk and then she married a bean . I know they were native american from oklahoma and lived on a reservation in or near noble.my ggreatgrandfathers name was William h. Brown and e married emerline hough in panola county did you check the panola county census in the 1850,60,70's?there were alot of browns in panola county also if you check with the east texas cherokee you might be able to find them there.Alot of the births coincide with when they were forcing the cherokee out of texas and they were crossing back and forth in and out of louisannaand oklahoma. write back soon, Sheena