Oh Jamie,
Bless your heart! You found your heritage and who you are. What a great day it will be if I can find mine.
I believe that my family does not believe it to be true about Indian family, because my grandfather had blue eyes. It was my 3rd great grandmother in my family.
What I believe to be really funny, in a way, is that my father, and my brother and I are loctose intolerant. My mom was from the Amish, she is not Amish anymore, but she can have anything. The rest of my dads siblings are not a close family, so I really dont know what their lives are like.
When dads family was closer, when I was younger, his one brother told me he heard it was Blackfoot. And there is Blackfoot in Virginia. My dads sister married their 2nd cousin, from the Indian side of our family, and they also know and wonder about the Indian heritage- even before I was born. My 2nd cousins out in Washington state, the one boy cousin told me they did work and found it was Miami. Unfortunatly, due to family problems that they are having, I can not get a hold of them.
On this site and Genealogy.com gen forum, I have tried to talk to people who may be connected or I have questions as to differnt physical things, like the lactose intolerant, no one will write me back or they are not on anymore because the query is too old..and I am too late.
Maybe you can help with this, I have looked everywhere, but maybe didnt look in the right place. I have seen both my grandparents since they passed away. But what got me was my grandfather. When he greeted me, I have only seen it on old cowboy/Indian westerns. Both his arms were bent in a L fashion. He rested his hands upon my forearms, and I clutched his arms right before his elbow (under his arm). All the scared feeling I had as a little girl/teenager left me, and my heart was love of love for my grandfather. I grew up very scared of him. He was a mean alcoholic. And theres a story behind how his life got to be like that. He was mean to all his children. But my grandmother was the best. She stuck by him-thick or thin.
Anyway, thank you for writing. I dont mean to tell my life story in public.
But what happened in the greeting sure was a big sign.
All the family happenings were right in Holmes Co. Mostly Rippley Township. Rebecca Morningstar Lightfoot was born 1821 OH. She got married 20 AUG 1844 Holmes co. to Hiram Jones. Its funny about him. Each census says he was from a different state. Ether MI,OH or IN. Daniel Lightfoot, her father was born in OH 1826 and her mother Anny Weir was born in PA 1806. But the Lightfoots are "Pure" English.
I sure like to find out what was happening around that part of Ohio at that time. I know the Indian removal act was starting, was ending?
You still dont name a child was a middle name like Morningstar and the rest of the children are all common names. There is usually a reason. Wouldnt you think?
Sorry to talk your ear off. Its just nice to that someone writes back- and with encouragment.
My husband has a wonderful Cherokee family. They made baskets and were from the Alabama/North Carolina area. What do you do when you find a name on the rolls? Can you tell me? I am 90% sure that his 2nd great grandfather is on a roll from North Carolina.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks Jamie.
Linda
PS..my grandfathers military record says only white.