Bev, very interesting! I have two very crooked little fingers. The last joint (or first, depending on whether one begins counting at the hand or the finger tip) is bent at a considerable angle inwards toward the other fingers. All of my grandchildren have this "mark", but none of my siblings did. Later, Fran -----Original Message----- From: Beverly Brown <missbev@theshop.net> To: WEST-L@rootsweb.com <WEST-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, February 13, 1999 10:55 AM Subject: [WEST-L] Dawes Rolls/West Ears >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 > >