Regarding Indian-European relations, I do know my ggg grandfather John Williams, Jr.'s 2nd wife was a Cherokee-Delware Indian ancestry. I can't say she was pure blood aboriginal American though. She was a widow, Nancy Byrams, and they were married abt 1840 in Bedford Co., TN. Family tradition says her Indian name was, "Red Oak". Descendents of children from this 2nd marriage were reported to have migrated to Oklahoma on were supposed listed Cherokee tribal rolls according to elder (now decesased members of my family). I have never checked into that to confirm it. I also have seen a photo of a civil war soldier from Arkansas (but born in either Tennessee or North Carolina) that was a Cherokee and his last name was curiously also John Williams. He looked more Indian than European. According to the article he was a devote Unionist, which was a bit surprising. Unfotunately I sent the picture (was printed in back issue of Civil War Times) to a relative and I cannot locate the issue it was printed. --Scott Williams Group #12 Early Descendants of John Williams, "The Wealthy Welshman" of Hanover County, Virginia. Born 1679, Llangollen, Wales. http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/williams/ >Message: 1 >Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:57:08 EDT >From: Alg22@aol.com >Subject: [WILLIAMS-DNA] query >To: WILLIAMS-DNA-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <c87.27fafb89.3517ada4@aol.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > >so, my fellow williamses, are we melungeons? black and white and red? i >always thought my father looked like a black indian. > >if true, this comes as no surprise. has dna proven it? williams is listed >as one of the commonly found melungeon names. thoughts? > > >