OK, my father says that his father's mother's mother was Shoshone. My mother says this is not possible, because apparently my brother and I were the only grandchildren on my father's side with brown eyes, which our mother has. My father's eyes are green, same as his two brothers' (who both married blue-eyed women), his father's eyes were blue, and his mother's eyes were green. I do not know the eye color of my father's paternal grandmother, or of any of my father's cousins on the paternal side. My mother's 7 siblings have various eye colors.
From this information, is there any way to tell whether my father's father's mother's mother was Shoshone? If not, what information would I need to determine, by eye color, whether this is possible? I would be proud to have some Native American heritage, but the story's source, my grandad, had a propensity for tall tales, so I don't know what to think...all the family records were lost in a house fire...should I just hire a geneologist?
2006-10-02
09:26:50
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josephine
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