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First Americans

JDPriestly

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6. In our case, a search ended in a question mark at a name with no recorded ancestors.

Reply to LibGranny (Reply #4)

Fri Jun 8, 2012, 06:51 PM

Jun 2012

The only person in our family history of the past few hundred years who was illiterate. But there could be some explanation other than that she was of Indian ethnicity.

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