Eight years ago, I started off a column about Native American genealogy by recalling the time I took four young boys to Indian Island to see the gravestone of Louis Sockalexis, the Penobscot for whom the Cleveland Indians may have been named.

I knew the youngsters would like to see the stone with the crossed baseball bats engraved on it.

Now it is 2013, and Scott Saucier, Tony Saucier, Andrew Stepp and Matthew Stepp have a total of eight children who I hope will visit Sockalexis’ grave one day. Scott’s children are also part Penobscot through their mom, so we’ll have to look for markers for Francis and Loring relatives, too.

What started me thinking about this trip again was trying to find the column in which I cited an online census listing for Micmacs in Canada. I’ll get to that in a minute, and give you an updated Web address for the Mi’kmaq censuses for Nova Scotia.

I found Louis Sockalexis in the 1880 census of “Oldtown Island,” as transcribed by the Mormon church on its website, familysearch.org. The census listed Francis Socklexis (note the different spelling), 39; wife Frances, 36; daughter Soluice, 18; son Lewis, 7; daughter Mary, 6. All were NA, Native American, born in Maine to parents who were born in Maine, according to page 563B of a census microfilm for Penobscot County.