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I have a good friend whose parents are both from Appalachia, from families that settled there in the 18th century. She has documented Native American ancestry as well as English and Irish. Her parents and brother are all dark skinned with dark hair, and she's a pale strawberry blonde with freckles. But she still looks like them in a way. They have the same bone structure.

I think it's that way in my family too. It has not shown up on a DNA test yet, so I can't confirm we have Native American ancestry, but there are reasons to think we do.

My family on both sides was in North Carolina from the 1740s onward, in what was frontier land. On many branches of my family tree the information fades at some point in the mid to late 18th century ("father/mother unknown" etc). There was a lot of intermarriage and procreation between native groups and white settlers, so it would not be surprising if I had a Native American ancestor.

My father and his only sister both had jet black, straight hair, dark eyes, high cheekbones, and fairly dark skin that tanned easily. Their families were all of English, Scots-Irish and German ancestry as far as they knew, but as I said they had plenty of ancestors who didn't keep the best records.

I don't know for a fact that I have any Native American blood. I might not. I certainly wouldn't claim it in any official way. But it's possible and it would make sense.

A lot of people were only semi literate at that time. Someone wrote the name down the wrong way.