Eee gads! I've always wondered where the crooked little fingers came from! My grandmother (daughter of a West), my mother, my sister, and myself all have identically crooked little fingers. They are turned in towards the other fingers at the last joint. Perhaps that is a West trait! >From west-l-request@rootsweb.com Sat Feb 13 07:52:59 1999 >Received: (from slist@localhost) > by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA07836; > Sat, 13 Feb 1999 07:40:18 -0800 (PST) >Resent-Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 07:40:18 -0800 (PST) >Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990213095328.0082db00@theshop.net> >X-Sender: missbev@theshop.net >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) >Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 09:53:28 -0600 >Old-To: west-l@rootsweb.com >From: Beverly Brown <missbev@theshop.net> >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Subject: [WEST-L] Dawes Rolls/West Ears >Resent-Message-ID: <"DLAq7B.A.N6B.hzZx2"@bl-14.rootsweb.com> >To: WEST-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-From: WEST-L@rootsweb.com >Reply-To: WEST-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <WEST-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/2025 >X-Loop: WEST-L@rootsweb.com >Precedence: list >Resent-Sender: WEST-L-request@rootsweb.com > >I see there are Wests who are interested in their possible Native American >ancestry. I have the Oklahoma Historical Society's CD of the Dawes Rolls >index. The ONLY people who are on this CD are members of the Five >Civilized Tribes (Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, Seminole) who were >ALSO living in what is now Oklahoma in 1900, give or take about five years. > If you think your relative might fit BOTH criteria, send me a name and >approximate birthdate and I'll see if they are on the Dawes Rolls. > >Incidentally, my Wests aren't my Native American tie. My Scotch-Irish West >grandma married my Choctaw grandfather. > >Since we probably have new Wests on the list since the last time we >discussed this (and I do think this fits under the category of genealogy), >I'd like to mention the West ears. It seems the Wests have a tendency to >have ears that resemble Prince Charles', both in size and shape. Proof of >royal ancestry, perhaps? You can see several fine examples of West ears on >my web page, http://www.theshop.net/missbev/family/Wests2.html. They have >carried down even to the present generation, with my cousin's ten-year old >(whose feelings I spared by NOT putting him on my West page) having those >identical ears. We also have a tendency to have crooked little fingers, >but I don't have a picture of those. > >I've decided to build a special web page in tribute to those ears. Do you >have examples you'd like to contribute to the web page? If so, e-mail them >to me, NOT to the list, with a brief explanation of who the person is and >when and where he/she lived. Be sure and tell me if you want your own name >and e-mail address listed along with the photo. > >Beverly >missbev@theshop.net > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com