[Slyfox]

When I was a little kid, my mother showed me a picture of my great-grandmother. It was a few months before she died and she had bandages on her legs and on her head. My mother said she looked like an Indian squaw and with my young impressionable mind I assumed that I too had Indian blood in me for the better part of 40 years, until I dug into our family history and asked my mom about my great-grandmother, the Indian squaw. She told me she was from Slovakia having arrived in 1914. I gotta admit I felt a little sad knowing that I wasn't the least bit Indian. And my recent Ancestry DNA test proves it.

Dang! If I had only known to get some free education while I was under my false impression.

[reed13k]

yeah - I had always heard rumors about American Indian blood in my family. Turns out from what I’ve found that one of my ancestors had a hunting accident and blew off his arm with a shotgun. An American Indian found him and rendered assistance. So later - though I have yet to gain proof - he middle named one of his sons after the assisting Indian.

I do know my ancestor lost his arm as I have a photo from later in life. I just haven’t been able to obtain all the birth certs with middle names to prove that the naming happened as described.

Things pass through generations with little proof and everyone thinks they understand when they don’t have the full story.