I am so excited about this Native American information.... I am like many who is suppose to have a great grandmother who is Cherokee.... in my case she is Eunice Jane Williams and she was from Tennessee... because of your common last name of Williams it is just overwhelming....so any suggestions on how to start...I have her parents first names and think I have found them but again such common names, Andrew and Ann....so any ideas...what I should do...HELP and thanks in advance

I'd like to know if anyone has done their mtDNA, and if they are Haplogroup C. As a Puerto Rican, this means Taino lineage, which I am still researching. Am interested in learning more about DNA and Native American genealogy.

Ellen - my mtDNA is Haplogroup A, and my maternal line originated somewhere in the Grand Cayman area (still not sure where). Unfortunately, no one has ever matched my mtDNA results, but I continue to do research and hope for a match. My 23andMe results also report Native American ancestry in my autosomal DNA.

thanks im glad to be here and i need to look at my info before i can put it here i do have a grandfather on the 1900 cherokee indian nation census rolls...last name is yates wifes name is wells i think... not sure need to look............. mary

Hello everyone! I have quite a few Cherokee and Choctaw ancestors with the last names of Polson, Pate, McDonald, and Reese. My great grandmother was born on the Cherokee Reservation in 1897, which is well documented--the problem I'm having is with my own grandmother's & uncle's documentation. Even on Rootsweb they are not listed with the other 4 children. My grandmother was never able to find a birth certificate, altho they are available for the older 4 children, 3 of whom passed as children. I've spent hours searching--it is as if my great grandmother and her family vanished after her husband died in 1928--I can't find any of them on the 1930 census. It makes me wonder if, in her grief of losing her 2 daughters and son, that she didn't grab someone else's children and make a run for Texas, avoiding the census. My older great uncle (a mean old man) always told my granny that he had a secret but he would never tell. I'm so frustrated.

1852 Drennen Roll (Emigrant Cherokee in Indian Territory). This roll was the first census of the emigrants/new arrivals of 1839. This was the “Trail of Tears” survivors, or New Echota Treaty Group; microfilm M-685.

Mose Otterlifter
{indian name- Gona Ha Laskmas }



Mose Otterlifter was Cherokee


the Otterlifter family came to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears
they lived in the Flint District of Webbers Falls Indian Territory
his wife and him were not living together in 1851 when the Drennen Roll was taken
she was Joo-mi Baldridge




their children were

Betsy died about 1891-1896
Rachel " " 1860
Dave " " 1861
Cy " " 1866
Andy
Mary died 1867-1868 - my husbands line decends from Mary who married Henry Simmons

Looking for information on Susannah Sowege Gliding Swan Castle who was married to Alexander Vance. Susannah was the daughter of the Great White Hunter, Jacob Cassell. (Castle) in PA/VA/WV