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I have been trying to figure out if a certain person in my family is Cherokee or Catawba Indian since those where the main two tribes in/around the area. The only information I have about her is Key/Kee or Kay Cherokee woman who had 3 children with Thomas Correll. I can not locate proof of
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I’m trying to search the name Micajah Watson and Elkanah Watson to see if they’re Native American!
My grandfather told the story that his grandmother Nancy Hunter, who was the daughter of Redding Hunter of NC who migrated to South GA in the 1820’s was a kidnapped Cherokee child. I know there would be no record of that, but I would like to find out how to go about investigating if this
I am trying to track my family tree/lineage. we know my great grandmother Bessy/Bessie Scoffield was of native ancestor she married and her name was then Gibbear. we are told our great great grandmother was a young girl on the trail of tears. would love any information and help. We have a lineage of shamans..etc
Looking for Cherokee Molly Flatt (welsh) married to Edward Wilkerson. info I have is 1738 B. E Cherokee nation SC. Died 16 apr 1796, Cherokee Nation east, near Nickajack TN.
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Last names Curd, Reese or Reece, Hartley Areas Lenoir NC, Kentucky, Texas Believed to be of the Deer Tribe Did not take the trail of Tears Believed to have own mountain in Lenoir were the Hartley’s and more? could be placed at rest.
Looking for any information on Matti Francis Cochran Sykes feb 11, 1898 and William Cochran, not sure of his birthday, he’s my great great grandpa
I am looking for information on Levina Eddings (Nichols) who would be my great, great, great, great grandmother. It has been told that she was full blooded Cherokee. Some have spelling as Lavina, born in 1786 in North Carolina. She was married to John Eddings and the mother of Elizabeth Nesbitt (Nasbitt), Mary America Dye,
Hello, I am researching my ancestry for my master’s thesis. I have done Ancestry DNA and seemed to have found Cherokee relatives on my father’s maternal side. My great (x4) grandfather was named Jacob “Jake” Jones (1829-1882) who was the son of Robert Jackson ‘Dan Ein Meh’ Jones (~1776-1854)and the son of Jinney ‘Oo Chel
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My grandfather Virgil Lee Thompson always said he is Cherokee and Blackfeet. His mother Flo (Floya?) Myers also stated as such. A woman named Opal in the family said that the reason we are native is because of relation to (Unice?) Belle Harvey. Opal referred to belle harvey as perhaps being 2 people (bell and
Hey I’m looking for my great great grandmothers history her name is Stella Benton and she had children. One of thems name is Dallas McDermott.
Hi, I am raising my 9 year old grandson who is part Cherokee, I try to learn as much as possible to teach him about his heritage since none of his fathers family is in contact with him. I am trying to understand the clan system and since his mom is white find out if
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Mourning Dove Banks
My grandmother’s name was Grace, her mother was Annie Marsh of the Wolf Clan. I’m trying to find some ancestral family members to help guide me to proving Native lineage.
Legend has it that Edith Love of St. Clair County, Alabama, in Shoal Creek Valley near Ashville, was half Cherokee, but there’s no DNA or physical records to prove it that I have found so far. May Loves are mentioned in books about the Cherokee, so I assume many tribe members who hid from the
My grandmother was Inez Ballard. I don’t know her maiden name. She was married to Furman Eugene Ballard, they lived in South Carolina and had 5 children. My grandmother was Cherokee. She passed away when my dad was 5, my dad and his siblings were adopted out to a white family (Barnes)and used as farm
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I just recently found out my 5-6 generation back grandmother was Mourning Dove Banks a Cherokee Indian married to John Banks in North Carolina after his first wife and children drown crossing the frozen river..any information would be great
My great grandma was born Nancy T. Milam on the Milam side. My grandfather was born James Benjamin Whisenant. I’m looking to see where we are in the line of Native American Cherokee.
Looking for Grt, Grt Grandmother on Cherokee Baker Roll
Did Abraham Young Chicken marry Katie Owl?
Joseph J Starr named George Starr as his daddy in his 1936 interview. Elsa E Starr is on the Tennessee payment records listed as E Starr and The Going Starr, along with all the Cherokee Starr families (mainly Caleb). Ancestry and my heritage dna tests I have taken link Joseph J. And Elsa as brother
Information on Lucy Bearpaw Proctor Thomas
Hello, my husband’s great-grandmother Hettie Willbanks was Cherokee and we are looking for more information on her and her family. Birth: 14 May 1882 • Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee (mother’s name possibly Eppy) Death: 11 May 1952 • Watsonville, Santa Cruz, California She married Frederick Benton Williams and moved to Arkansas in the early 1900’s.
I’m looking for information on my Great Grandmother Mae or May Duncan. I am told she was Cherokee and was disowned because she loved a white man, his name was Everett Hamilton. She died in 1961 in Rush, Kentucky (Boyd County). She was my Dad’s grandmother and for whatever reason his side of the family
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