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It's amazing how you can pick and choose which branches to traverse on your way back in time. My Dad has researched the Taylor family back to parts of England in the early 1600s and other families in Germany.
On my mother's side, there is one branch that hits a distinct dead-end - my Grandfather's Great Grandmother was a full-blood Native American named Wah-se-con from the Sac and Fox tribe (relocated from Michigan to Iowa/Kansas/Oklahoma). She married a French-Canadian trapper name Jean Rubeti and had at least two girls named Margaret and Sophie. Wah-se-con and Jean were killed in a horse-cart accident in 1851, and Margaret (age 6) and Sophie were then raised by Christian Missionaries in Iowa. Margaret was my Great Great Grandmother.
