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Cherokee Genealogy Queries
The Genealogy Queries on All Things Cherokee are a FREE forum for interacting with other genealogy researchers. Here you can publicly post your genealogy query, browse other genealogy queries and comment on queries.
To browse or search the queries, use the navigation features on the right. You can search by keyword, as well as browse by surname, region, or the month in which the query was posted.
To post your own query, you will need to register with All Things Cherokee and be logged in in order to submit your query. Once registered and logged in, you’ll see a query submission form on this page.
If you need help, this article details all the tools and tips for using the Cherokee Genealogy Queries.
Submit Your Query
Use the form below to post your query. Please read these instructions before submitting your query. Here are a few things to keep in mind when posting a query.
- The more names, dates, and places you provide the more responses you’ll likely receive. Also, be sure to list relevant surnames and select related regions in the appropriate boxes. These details will make browsing your query much easier.
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Please login or register with a free user account in order to post a query or comment on a posted query.Genealogy Queries
Great grandma side
Searching for great grandma
Finding my Roots – Mallow family – WV
Hi, I’m tracing my roots to my Native American lineage. I carry this with me. I feel it in my soul. I have one photo of my great great grandad. His name was Jacob Wesley Mallow 1873–1964 his wife was Annie Jamima Stonestreet Mallow 1871–1952. Jacobs parents were George Washington Mallow 1848–1906 Sarah E. Reed
Payne Family
I am looking for information on Quatie Payne, and her daughter Elizabeth Angeline (Nunisa) Payne Adams of North Carolina. Quatie was a full blood Cherokee born in Painttown, North Carolina. Quatie was born near “Hanging Dog Creek” and was said to be a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee. I would like to find
Zachary Herrison Taylor
Greetings. I have searched the on-line databases for Cherokee rolls and I have not found my Great Great Grandfather named Zachary Harrison Taylor: his family was one of 12 or 14 (I forgot the number) that the BIA re-named after the USA president Zachary “Indian Fighter” Taylor. I am wondering if anyone will point me
Indian John William Peters 1735–1814
Looking for more information on Indian John William Peters 1735–1814 BIRTH 1735 • Brownsville, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA DEATH 28 MAR 1814 • Sullivan, Tennessee, USA
looking for information smokey last name
we are looking for more info on my husbands side. We have traced his family back to waling with no fear smokey any information would be appreciated
Golden and Sixkiller
I’m stuck at Eliza Sixkiller(mother?) and Elsie Golden(daughter?). Anyone have any information on the Sixkiller, Golden or Starr family’s around Tennessee and Georgia, or possibly died on the trail of tears near Oklahoma?
Any histpry with McLemore, Kilby, Taylor
Any family history with these surnames
looking for answers on family
hi here are some names that we have found on my husbands side of the family. can answer any questions cherokee mother with no heart sleeping bear smokey lady cherokee bear mountain lion walking with no fear
James Martin
Looking for information on James Martin, Major, Chief, Kentucky Southern Cherokee and his relation to Isaac Watie and/or John Martin
Who is the mother of Watson Spade?
Hey, gang. Hope everyone is well. My query is concerning my 2nd great-grandfather (the father of my dad’s grandfather). His name is Watson Spade, enrolled under Dawes # 28564. His father is Johnson Spade, enrolled under Dawes # 1430. Also enrolled by Drennen # 533 as “Chuh-suh-who-lah” (Indian name). He served as senator from Goingsnake
Applications Overturned
Is there a site that I can read the actual 1896 application for enrollment and those that were overturned. I am seeking information about Elizabeth Jones
Father of William Riley Tuttle
Oh, by the way, I DID find my Cherokee ancestors since I last came looking here. I had assumed wrongly that William Riley Tuttle was the Cherokee because I couldn’t find his father and family told me his daughter Rachel was Cherokee. But it was actually Riley’s wife Cynthia Thornsberry who had the Cherokee ancestry
Chubby Bluebucket
Chubby Bluebucket. Was he a Cherokee in Virginia? Does anyone have his history or story?
Searching for Cherokee relatives
I am looking for information about my ancestor Holden Gate May 1797-1846. I believe his family passed through Henry County TN in the early 1800’s before or after 1817. He got separated from his family and was found and adopted by a white family named May. Adoptive parents were Samuel May 1770-1812 and Mary Ann
Follow up on Mary Foster from a 2005 Query by Clarence Heatherly
Recently (early December 2021) found out about a cousin that had asked questions on Thomas Foster and Elizabeth Pressgrove, and their daughter Mary (Foster) Jones. This past December (late) 2021 I learned that Clearance had passed away before I could get any information. Is there anyone out there that may be able to help me
Great Grandfather
Looking for James Robert Hester
Surname CLOUD
Searching for Cherokee Surname CLOUD. My mother Lois Elizabeth CLOUD from Kingman Kansas said her father Mark E. Cloud was one quarter Cherokee, and was related to a Henry CLOUD from the Western Band in Oklahoma. I have found other Cherokee CLOUDs, but none that seem to link to my mother’s ancestors. Male pedigree goes
Looking for Great Great Grandmother
I am looking for my great great grandmother. All I have found is that she was Cherokee, walked the Trial of Tears and fell in love with a soldier. My great grandmother was Margaret (Margurite, Maggie) Terrell. Her death certificate shows her father as William Terrell, although I have found other information his name was
Lavicia Nations
Trying to find names of Lavicia Nations parents or anything at all about her.. She was my mother’s great great grandmother. Lavicia lived, 1827-1880, in Cordova Alabama .Was married to John Archibald Black. They had a son named James Madison Black who was father of Mary Frances Black who was mother to Lacy Payne. From
Sarah Canoe
We have been told that we are Cherokee descendants of hers. This came from my Great-Grandparents William Cisrowe Jones and Sarah Jane “Sally” (Pickett) Jones (1888 GA – 1976 Sherman, TX). (Too many Joneses!) William C. Jones (1872 or 74 AK – 1923 Bennington, OK) Parents were John Harvington (1848 GA – ?) and Martha
Thornton Herring Trail of Tears
Searching for information on Thornton Herring who walked Trail of Tears. Born in 1840
Dorkest Massey
Dorkest
Ancestry question
My Cherokee Family