I am German, Hungarian, Scottish, Bohemian, Cherokee, English, Irish, Norwegian, Swedish and who knows what else. The branches of the family tree from my great great grandparents are:
 
ROBISON The Robison's are descended from the Clan Gunn of Northern Scotland. While I have not been able to find the actual Robison who came from Scotland, and establish the link, enough evidence and family history has been around to know this is true. The history of the Clan goes back to the Kings of Norway and Sweden, then to the Vikings and the Jarl's of the Orkney Islands. The Gunn's started out as Vikings raiding England. After settling in the Orkney Islands, they battled with the Danes and the Norwegians over control of the Islands before moving to Northern Scotland. The Clan Gunn remained powerful in Northern Scotland, fighting the English over control of the land, until the King of England declared all Gunns to be outlaws and ordered their extermination because they refused to recognize the authority of the Monarch. This was when the name for our family was changed to Robson (our family name is an alias). According to the histories I've found, the Robisons (the name was interchangably recorded as Robison, Robson, and MacRob, sometimes also recorded as Robinson, or Robertson) moved to southern Scotland where they raided northern England. They next moved to Northern Ireland, but only remained there a short time before moving to America with one of William Penn's settlements. I don't know exactly when our family specifically arrived in America, but I know they were in southern Pennsylvania in the late 1600s and early 1700s. In 1777 my ancestor Joseph Robison, swore an oath of allegience to the state of Pennsylvania, indicating his support for independence from England. After the family had spent at least 150 years in Pennsylvania, my Great Great Grandfather, William Robison, moved west in the 1850s. He travelled with his sister and her family to Iowa where he met his future wife. All of them, William, his sister (Margaret Jane Robison Preston) and her family, and my Great Great Grandmother (Esther Snook) and her parents, moved to Kansas in 1857.
 
SNOOK The Snooks were Pennsylvania Dutch. There has been a lot of confusion over the identity of my 5th Great Grandfather, Peter Snook. It seems that there were several Peter Snooks in the same general area at the same general time, and they have been confused with each other. One clue that I've followed to try to identify the correct Peter Snook, is that my 4th Great Grandfather (Casper Snook) did not speak English very well. He apparently grew up speaking German, so must have lived in a community that was almost exclusively German speaking. When he met his future wife (Esther Gillian) he had some difficulty communicating with her, since he spoke German and she spoke English.
 
HENLEY The Henley family can be traced back to England, including the arrival of Richard and Sarah Henley to America in 1642. Ancestors on the Henley branch of the family include an indentured servant, English aristocrats, and several officers in the Continental Army of the American Revolution. One uncle was Lord Mayor of London at the time of the Revolution and lamented in his diary about the fact that three of his sister's grandsons were serving in the Revolution against England. There is also rumor of Cheyenne ancestry on one branch of this family.
 
HARP The Harp name was apparently originally Earp. Our Harps came from Ireland in the 1600s or early 1700s, and were in North Carolina by about 1760. Several pioneer families were closely associated with each other in North Carolina, Harp, Vaughan, Benton, Clemens, Lewis, Todd, Ford, and all moved to Arkansas in the early 1800s. The Harp branch of the family includes William and Fereby Vaughan for whom a group of descendents have been doing extensive research.  According to stories found, William Vaughan was a Welsch pioneer/trader who married a Cherokee woman and then lived much of the time in her Cherokee village. William's wife was Fereby Benton who was named for her mother, Fereby Looney. The older Fereby died while giving birth to the younger Fereby, and was the daughter of a Cherokee named John Looney. This was not the same John Looney who was a Chief of the Cherokees, but he was likely related. Several members of the Harp family served in the Union Cavalry during the Civil War, even though they were from Arkansas. This support for the North forced some members of the family to move to Illinois, or Missouri for the duration of the war. Another branch of the Harp line is Clemens. Family stories related that Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was a cousin. I have determined that Samuel Clemens is a distant cousin, but not as direct as family legend had indicated (7th cousin 5 times removed).  Our Harp, Vaughan and Clemens ancestors arrived in Northwestern Arkansas in 1828.
 
KIDD I have had no success tracing the Kidd family any further back than my Great Great Grandparents. On the positive side, this Kidd family has been holding family reunions every year for over twenty years now. I have met and gotten to know many of my second, and third cousins. My Great Great Grandfather, Perry Commodore Kidd, was captured by the Union Army during the Civil War and identified as a Confederate Bushwhacker. Census records indicated that his parents were born in Germany or Sweden, and family history says his parents were Dutch.  However, further research indicates that he likely lied in these records, and to his second family (our family), and that his parents were actually born in Kentucky or Virginia.
 
FOWLER As with Kidd, I have not been able to trace this family any further. By all reports my Great Great Grandmother, Jane Delphine Fowler Kidd, was the kindest, sweetest person, and it's in honor of her that the Kidd family has been holding the "Grandma Kidd Family Reunion" for so long. She died in 1946, 88-1/2 years of age. She outlived her husband (who was [at least] 25 years older than her) by 42 years. I have a photograph of her mother ("Grandma Fowler") but have no information about her.
 
STEELE The Steeles lived in Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas. Several from this family served in the Union Army, including some in the connected Foster family. My Great Great Grandfather, Frank Newton Steele was a union organizer and socialist during the early 20th century.
 
SINGLE I know very little about the Single branch of the family, except that they were in Pennsylvania in the 1800s. Some time ago while talking with various distant cousins, I was told that a cousin had a photograph of an Indian girl who was an ancestor of ours. I have yet to find this photograph, but somewhere back in the family tree, our Steele's are supposed to have Indian ancestors. I believe the photo was from this branch of the family. Members of the Single family are listed in various census records as "White", "Mulatto" or "Free Colored". In the 1840 Census, my 4th Great Grandfather, John Single, and all of the children are listed as "Free Colored" while his wife, Eve, is listed as "Free White". In the 1830, 1820, and 1810 censuses they are all listed as "Free White".  A cousin has recently related to me that the story passed down about the Single family is that one of our ancestors was a Dutch girl who was bought at auction by an Indian.
 
SETZER & PROßL The Setzer's lived in an area of Bavaria very close to the Czek border. At various times members of this family were Cattlemen, farmers, and Inn Keepers. My Grandfather came to America in 1924, with his passage paid by his Aunt. Many of our Setzer cousins still live in the same area of Germany.
 
ZEITLER & HOSL I have received some information from a Zeitler cousin in Germany. His father (my Mom's 2nd Cousin) Konrad Zeitler, was the Burgermeister of the Oberpfalz in Bavaria from 1963 to 1996. Several members of the Zeitler family moved to America in the mid to late 1800s, including my Grandfather's Aunt who later paid his passage to America.
 
EKES The Ekes family came from Szakal in Tolna Megye, Hungary. My grandmother (Julia Ekes Setzer) arrived in America with her parents when she was only a year and a half old. She grew up speaking Hungarian in the home, and English outside the home, so was fluent in both languages. After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was suppressed by Russian soldiers, my grandmother spent considerable time providing assistance to Hungarians who were seeking asylum in America. She helped them as an interpreter, and with assistance in gaining US citizenship, as well as other needs. The Ekes family was of Hungarian ancestry.
 
MARONICS My research has found that the Maronics family, alternatively spelled Marinics or Marinits, lived in the town of Kurd, Tolna Megye, Hungary in the 1700s and 1800s. Family history says they had Bohemian ancestry.
 
KUMMEL & GLUCK These families were of Somogy & Fejer Megye, Hungary, and were rich farmers of German-Hungarian ancestry. I know little more than that at this time.