You are in the same boat as I am. Lots of oral tradition, but nothing in writing yet. The nearest I can get is that my Hardings are listed as black or mulatto. I have read that since there weren't NA designations on many of the early census, they put them down as either black, mulatto or white. My Hardings go from being black, to mulatto to white in the various census in the same generation! So.. you just never know. My bro is going to take the gene test so we can see what percentage of what we are. course, that doesn't help with what Tribe it might be. Oral traditions have Cherokee (wasn't everyone in the U.S.A... LOL ) and Choctaw and Blackfoot. So we just don't know. I keep hoping to find some descendants to help me along. It could happen :) I have already found few lost 'cousins'..but none of them so far have the proof of NA... One reason is that my NA's were evidently 'Free Indians'. They were not connected to the reservations. So I just keep trying. :) May you find all your ancestors and half of your neighbor's. LOL In a message dated 4/14/2006 4:26:04 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, karon@yvn.com writes: 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. Barb :) Surnames: Dunn, Brewster, Groat, Harding, West, Guinn, Newton, Bettis, 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