In a message dated 01/25/2000 6:00:35 PM Mountain Standard Time, jthill@inreach.com writes: << Then I start running the names down and find out its for a black John Doe. >> Very few of us have "pure" blood. Many of the slaves in the south took their "master's" names and MANY of the slave owners had children by their slaves. Many white men also married Indian women. My sister-in-law went to Kentucky in search of information on her "white" ggggrandfather and she found several black descendants of his. Shock! marykell