This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BAC.2ACE/1029.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: I imagine it would be almost impossible to absoulutely prove beyond any doubt any type of relationship to Henry Hudson nowadays. Especially if the relationship was through his son, John and a native american wife. But the Hudson name must have started somewheres among the native americans, because there are a lot of them (especially among the Cherokee and Choctaw tribes), and I don't think they were all slaves who took on the name of the plantation owners upon their liberation.