I’m so glad you know your background. Mine was pretty much kept secret. I post my great grandmother but I actually somewhat remember visiting my grand-fathers mother in the hills of Kentucky a she was certainly Indian. I was told to be very quiet that she was very old. She was probably in her 90’s. It wasn’t talked about to us.
My mother’s background is harder to unravel. Her father moved the family to California from Kansas City when my mom was a baby and never had anything to do with his family again. She actually went there when she was eighteen to visit her mother’s family, and looked up her dad’s parents. She went to visit them, she said they were very happy to see her and they were very nice. My grandfather was a Jew, and part English according to my mom, but I suspect he was trying to hide it. He converted to Seventh Day Adventist for one thing. When I was older, I had bought a star of David necklace, and when my mom saw me wearing it, told me I shouldn’t wear it in public because people don’t like Jews.
So all I know is that the family had immigrated from England and initially moved to Louisville Kentucky and raised race horses, and somehow my great grandparents ended up in Kansas City.