Yes, I saw that too. That family had some strange names Afluetta, Orestes, Metellah. I think I spelled the first one right. She died very young, maybe at birth, but the others I have researched and found their families, and met members of their families. In fact, the great granddaughter of Metellah is a better researcher than I and lives in the area they lived in, she found Metellah had divorced and married again. Her first husband had married her sister, but for a while she thought it was one person, Perly Metellah or Metellah Perly. I said no it isn't, they are sisters. It took a little convincing but she had found their obits, and I told her read them and see when they died, and how many children they left. She saw they were two different people with different death dates, and different numbers of children left behind. My Mom always said she had an Olive complexion, she was much darker than her kids. We went to Crow Agency Montana for an Indian Christian camp meeting and a dog bit my daughter in the back. I told the kids to flag down the police the next time they came around and tell them, because someone needed to lock that dog up. The Indian police said they had to take Zandi to the hospital for a shot, because the dog bit her. At the Indian Hospital they asked for her Indian number. I said we don't have one. They thought she was Indian, I guess. She is the darkest Kid I have and she isn't very dark, and all my family has blue eyes. In my birth family Mom had Hazel eyes and she was the only one who didn't have blue. In the genealogy I have done, I haven't found any connections. I used to work on the edge of the Colville Reservation and some of my clients were Indian. Steve was and he looked at my family pictures and said Dad's family looked more Indian than mom's family. Dad's dad came from Prince Edward Island Canada, and before that, Scotland. There are stories of Indian on both side which my parents strongly denied. I was hoping to find it in the genealogy, but so far, I haven't. Karon ----- Original Message ----- From: PalTia@aol.com To: WEST-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 12:35 PM Subject: Re: [WEST-L] ETHNICITY of the WEST NAME Also, it has two ?? behind it. According to the info at the top of the page that means that the spelling may not be correct. Barb In a message dated 4/13/2006 6:05:22 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, FireRaven@insightbb.com writes: found a transcription online of the 1885 Dodge County, Nebraska census... For John CRAMER & Asserkus ?? It looks like it was perhaps a first name of the wife. Doesn't appear to have the nationality listed in the transcript. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nedodge/census/1885/C85DodgeCensus.htm Deb Barb :) Surnames: Dunn, Brewster, Groat, Harding, West, Guinn, Newton, Williams "Share knowledge as if it is a living entity, for in fact, it is. It lives on in the lives of others for generations to come." Barb Grainger - 2006 ==== WEST Mailing List ==== Families are like fudge. Mostly sweet with a few nuts.