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RE: My Own Little Plantation or If I Knew It - 2/18/2008 11:09:20 PM    RedGinger   Posts: 992 Joined: 12/7/2007 Status: offline Wow!  If you have a male relative, you can do a DNA test to find out more.  I have a friend that's half Cherokee.  It baffles me that he doesn't really care about it.  You should be very proud of it. _____________________________ [link] [/link] (in reply to rlo) Post #: 41

RE: My Own Little Plantation or If I Knew It - 2/18/2008 11:39:05 PM    lobeycat Posts: 3803 Joined: 9/8/2003 From: RED SOX Nation Status: offline Had a few of my relations die dancing in the family tree _____________________________ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD8XDgVe2EU long lost recipe (in reply to RedGinger) Post #: 42

RE: My Own Little Plantation or If I Knew It - 2/19/2008 12:07:14 AM    capsoda Posts: 7917 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline A little Indian leads to a large head and nose along with early rinkles. That aint nottin to be proud of but it is mine. Scotish/Irish/Indian on my dads side and Jewish/Spanish/Indian on my moms. My great great grandpa on my moms side was Jewish and married a Creek girl. My great grandpa on my dads side excaped the Trail Of Tears as a boy by going south into the Georgia swamps and then on south into the Everglades. He was Seminole/Creek. There is also a little black and a few others in there somewhere along the way. You will find that all the Peacocks in this country owe there heritage to one woman and her 10 sons. I have relatives rich and famous, poor and unknown, heros and scalliwags. One from Texas came to Pensacola and got hanged after shooting a well liked sheriff. That is back when the west was wild but Pensacola was wilder and the cowboys and soldeirs came here for fun. You could be done away with for a quarter. I learned all about Pensacola and it's inhabitants from My aunt Blanch who was a pretty famous Madame there. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to lobeycat) Post #: 43

RE: My Own Little Plantation or If I Knew It - 2/19/2008 12:20:41 AM    RedGinger   Posts: 992 Joined: 12/7/2007 Status: offline It also leads to good looks.  That's an interesting family history, Capsoda.  The Seminoles are a whole story in and of themselves.  _____________________________ [link] [/link] (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 44

RE: My Own Little Plantation or If I Knew It - 2/19/2008 1:35:46 AM    capsoda Posts: 7917 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Yep, The early Spaniards were shocked when they went with the Seminoles on the war path. They formed up in Roman style blocks and marched in formation from southern Tennesse all the way to southern Mississippi. When ever they got within ten miles of a known tribal settlement they stoped every few hundred yards and stomped their feet and banged their shields. The locals would run and not interfear with there march. They march almost non stop. They took no prisoners or trophies either and left nothing living. The Monk who was keeping the journal drew pictures and and wrote that when they stomped and banged their shields it sounded like the end of the world as their were as many as two thousand warriors. I can imagine what it must have sounded like. The Seminoles also invented the 3piece suit.  They ranged from the southern end of Florida, west to the Mississippi River and north into lower Illinois and were the dominant tribe for centuries. The Spaniards left them with influenza and plague that nearly wiped them out. They never regained a dominant role after that and lived only in southern Alabama and Georgia and south to The keys of Florida. Just goes to show ya, "Never look a gift horse or Spaniard in the mouth". You will get the flu and die if you do. < Message edited by capsoda -- 2/19/2008 1:42:23 AM > _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to RedGinger) Post #: 45

RE: My Own Little Plantation or If I Knew It - 2/19/2008 9:42:12 AM    rlo   Posts: 321 Joined: 12/9/2007 From: the boot heel Status: offline Cap  our history is so important, I am glad you are passing yours along.  Please make sure you tell these stories to the children in your family.  to much has been lost, & we forget our children will be the ones to pass this info on.  my mother in law is a great story teller, & it is a huge part of our holidays to listen to her.  we have a glimpse of our ancestors in a way that really brings them to life.  kinda like bottles do.   with tech being such a part of our lives, it's easy to forget that oral history is just as important.  & fun!  those are great stories Cap.  (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 46

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