I suspect that several people can weigh in on this topic. From my investigations, it appears that Youngblood families came from Germany and The Netherlands. In the German case, the spelling is "Jungblut". (One has only to toss "Jungblut" into a search engine to see all of the German web sites that pop up.) Without digging, I don't remember what the Dutch spelling is (probably also Jungblut). Walt SLYDCBARRI@aol.com wrote: > Hello Rosemary, > > My grandfather was Bert Henry Youngblood 12/23/1897-4/4/1960. He was living > and died in Phila., but was buried in NJ. His first wife was Anna Mae Barry. > They had 3 children- Alan Barry, Robert Barry and Richard Alan. My father was > Robert, who died a few weeks ago. > > Do you have any info regarding the Native American slant? I've been trying > unsucessfully for years and have recently started investigating the > possiblilty that Youngblood was originally from the German "Youngbluth" > > Barri -- Walter Gilbert =^..^= waltergilbert@erols.com I intend Web pages: http://waltergilbert.web.com to live forever-- Lanham, Maryland =^..^= so far, so good.

In the case of one of my ancestors, Nikolaus Jungbluth, an ethnic German, emigrated from Austria-Hungary (a part later to be known as Yugoslavia) to Michigan and changed his name to Youngblood, which is a literal translation of the German, Jungblut (or Jungbluth). Daniela