Aunt B

Aunt B's relatives have been traced back through the Bahamas all the way back to France in the 1700s, and back through Key West and St Augustine and Jacksonville and Tallahassee-- and therefore Florida-- history. One of the ones she's hunting down now came over, supposedly, with Prince Marat (Nepoleon's grand nephew, who married Washington's grand daughter, and who has a house devoted to him in the Old St Augustine Village Museum). He was supposedly 18 years old and already married, so it's unlikely he was in the army at the time, but she's read five biographies of Marat and chased down the records and can't find a listing for him anywhere.

Nino, I think, was the first to reach Eagle Scout status in his whole county in Key West, and Aunt B is going to buy a brick to commemorate it; the scout master is still alive and helped her by verifying old scout troup pictures and passing on information.

Her grandson's father is Comanche, and she talked to a woman who studies the Comanche history and found that according to the tribe-- what they'll tell to people not in the tribe (maybe he can learn more, later)-- at powwow, that family has been pretty important to the Comanche Nation, all the way back to the wars with the French and the Spanish before they were states out there, and she's given alot of specific historical details that Aunt B can pin down and verify. She's working on that branch of the Tree for when he gets married, so she has something imformative and beautiful to give the newlyweds.