[mreid]

He's what I found out through a combination of ancestry.com, 23 and me, and stories told by my wife's relatives. My dad's family came over from Scotland (highlands) in the early 1800s and we are Robertson and Wallace clan. My mom's side is more interesting. Her father and his brother came from Germany in 1916. Her mother's family has been here since before the revolutionary war. The family names are Morrow and White from North Carolina. Now for the weird part.

My wife's maiden name is Ewing (yes, she's from Dallas, got her lots of points in the early 80's when she was attending UT in Austin). Her mother's grandmother was Scot, however in the 1870's her family was part of a wagon train from North Carolina to Oklahoma when they were attacked by Indians and everyone was killed, except a young girl who hid under a wagon and was picked up later by a family with the last name Scot. They took her as their own. We never knew her real last name until two years ago. We both took the 23 and me DNA test and found out we were fourth cousins. Further research showed that a family with the last name White left North Carolina in 1870 bound for Oklahoma and were killed by Indians with no known survivors. Fact is stranger than fiction.