We are American Indian.  I have put this is nationality, i.e. Lakota,
Seminole, etc and added the band and Enrollment number.
Marie in Seattle
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On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Michele Lewis <[email protected]>wrote:

> I just realized there is no place in Legacy to record a person’s race (or
> is there?)  I just received a marriage license in the mail from Forrest
> County, MS on one of my relatives.  The marriage came from one of the
> “Colored” marriage books.  When I requested the marriage I had no idea that
> the man she married was black.  Lucky for me the clerk in Forrest County
> was smart enough to check the “Colored” books when she didn’t find the
> marriage in the white marriage book.  I looked for this man right away in
> the WWI draft cards and I did find him (listed as black).  However, if I
> hadn’t done any more research on his for months I might have forgotten he
> was black and missed records discounted certain records because of race.
> If there isn’t a place to record race (if there is I couldn’t find it) it
> would be nice if there was.****
>
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>
> Michele****
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