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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.
  • This is public forum, so don’t post personal or sensitive information about yourself or any other living person.
  • This space is for genealogy queries only. Do not post advertisements or promote events here (not even Cherokee-related ads or events). Posts of this nature will be removed.

 

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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

Hi! Thanks for the website!

June 2, 2019 by laurenwhite11 Leave a Comment

I am Lauren White from Cherokee County Alabama. I am looking for any family associated with the name of White and Medlin. My grandparents and parents are deceased and they were White and Medlin. Would love to know any history of my family. I’ve been told certain things growing up but would love to know

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Regions: Alabama
Surnames: Medlin, White

Dickens to Dragging Canoe

June 2, 2019 by asann Leave a Comment

My grandmother’s side of the family has always told me I was part Indian. My research from Anna Dickens, Nina Witherspoon Price, led me to Dragging Canoe. How can I be sure I’m right?

Regions: Maryland, Virginia
Surnames: Dickens, Dragging Canoe, Price

Jesse Chisholm

June 2, 2019 by kopykatt Leave a Comment

This man is my 4th great grandfather. Jesse Chisholm Elisha Chism William Jones Chism Norah Belle Chissom William David Johnson My Mother Me I can not find records for William Johnson, he was born in Oklahoma before birth records were required. Jesse is not on the scrolls (his son Jesse with a Creek woman is)

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Regions: Oklahoma
Surnames: Chisholm, Chism, Chissom, Johnson

Cherokee Indian Chief

June 2, 2019 by NikkiRobinson Leave a Comment

My gggrandfather was an Indian Chief who was hanged for stealing a horse, so the story goes. He lived in either Tennessee or Kentucky. He married a Cherokee woman by the name of Blue Feather. He lived outside but she lived inside a home owned by the last name Reed. She took that name on.

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Regions: Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Michigan, Oklahoma, Tennessee
Surnames: Reed

Am i Native American ?

June 2, 2019 by Thornhill 2 Comments

I was told we have Cherokee in my Family my Great uncle Mack Thornhill was Cherokee but my Great Grandfather Isaac and Grandmother Thornhill found him on the trail of tears & raised him as there own But cannot find actual facts to my family having Cherokee Blood can anyone help? My Grandmother was Lydia

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Regions: Oklahoma
Surnames: Helms, Thornhill

Blackwell Family McMinn county Tennessee

June 2, 2019 by mitzithompson.np@gmail.com Leave a Comment

Looking for Blackwell family

Regions: Tennessee
Surnames: Blackwell

Heritage

June 2, 2019 by rcdwltd Leave a Comment

I have been told by my mother and her siblings that my great grandmother was half cherokee and would like to verify. Her father was Morgan Payne born 1847 died 1870.

Regions: Texas
Surnames: Johns, Payne

Looking for info on paternal great grandmother

June 2, 2019 by angiekohl Leave a Comment

I am looking for info on my paternal great grand mother. She died when I was very young so I have only a few memories. I know she is Cherokee indian and lived in Cowpens, Spartanburg County, SC. It appears she was born in 1891 and died in 1973. Her son, Oscar Black, was my

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Regions: North Carolina, South Carolina
Surnames: Black

Vann family cherokee link?

May 9, 2019 by djmurphy61 Leave a Comment

I am seeking information on a possible link from the family of Lillie D Vann, born in 1904, at Fayetteville, NC ; to the Cherokees. Her father was Neall A Vann, her mother was Sadie Vann.

Regions: North Carolina
Surnames: Vann

Knox, Bryant in NC

May 9, 2019 by chats2angels Leave a Comment

My Grandmother, Irene Knox Paul, (1923-2010) was Cherokee and I’m trying to trace her family. Her father was a Knox, her mother was Ida L. Bryant (1882-1969).They have always been in NC to the best of my knowledge.

Regions: North Carolina
Surnames: Bryant, Knox

Genealogy of The Maryland/ WV Greenwalt’s

May 2, 2019 by Corbig95 Leave a Comment

Looking for the genealogy of Myself and family members . This would’ve been in the from Washington Co and Frederick Co MD to the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia on the Eastern Panhandle

Regions: Maryland, West Virginia
Surnames: Greenwalt, Harris, Herrell, Lee

Looking for validation of ancestry in Cherokee Tribe

May 2, 2019 by angella1 Leave a Comment

I am researching our family history. I was told that we were part Cherokee. Looking for some validity to this. Apparently, my now deceased grandmother and her daughter use to receive payment from the tribe. My grandmother’s maiden name is Mable Blair, her mother’s name was Mattie Blair or Henderson and now I am hearing

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Regions: Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma
Surnames: Blair, Henderson, Woodard

Ida White

April 29, 2019 by Catherine04 Leave a Comment

I wanted to add to my query that the name my mother found was Ida White and I noticed someone else is asking about the same person. on your site.


Surnames: White

Surname White

April 29, 2019 by Catherine04 Leave a Comment

My mother Beverly Robinson Lazo passed away in 2005. She traced a lot of our ancestors pretty far back. One was supposedly on the Trail of Tears by the surname of White. I would appreciate any information you could give me.

Regions: Oklahoma
Surnames: White

Elsie “Akie” Walkingstick

April 29, 2019 by lgarrett711 Leave a Comment

Elsie “Akie” Walkingstick is my husband’s 3rd Great Grandmother. I am trying to confirm her husband and parents. I have found a possible husband (Conseenee Bushyhead Moytoy), but it is not confirmed. I have also seen a possible father for Bushyhead (Young Dragging Canoe). Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Regions: Oklahoma, Tennessee
Surnames: Bushyhead, Conseenee, Moytoy, Walkingstick, Young Dragging Canoe

Chief Enola Blackfox

April 19, 2019 by panz73 Leave a Comment

I was doing genealogy research ob familysearch.org. It traced mine back to Chief Enola Blackfox through my great-grandfather, John C Davis.

Regions: Tennessee
Surnames: Blackfox, Davis

Serepta Lawson ca 1915 TN

April 15, 2019 by Chitwood 1 Comment

My husband, Billy Ray Chitwood, of Campbell Co., TN, was always told he had Cherokee ancestors. He has done the ancestry DNA test and it doesn’t show, but since it would be far back that isn’t surprising. Serepta Lawson married William Hiram Bridges. Recently I came across a Tye Lawson (parents: George Rogers and Sally

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Regions: Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
Surnames: Bridges, Chitwood, Lawson, Rogers, Smith

Finding my past

April 15, 2019 by jessa0112 Leave a Comment

Hello, I have just found my ancestors name on the Dawes roll I have traced myself back to a clan mother of the Blind Savannah / Wild potato clan Elise Sonicooie? Her Daughter Soniovie (Susannah) Sonicooie Married a man who shares my last name ( spelling is a little different) Condrey / Cordray

Regions: Georgia
Surnames: Condrey, Cordray, Sonicooie

Virden-Bewley Indian Background

April 15, 2019 by akprowell@gmail.com Leave a Comment

I’m looking for any information about Mary Gee (Ghee) Virden and Hugh Virden. Gee would be my great great grandmother. My grandmother was trying to trace our family history before she passed several years ago. I’m trying to complete what she started for my family. Any information would be greatly appreciated. My email is akprowell@gmail.com.


Surnames: Bewley, Spence, Virden

Watkins

April 9, 2019 by blonderenagade1966 Leave a Comment

Looking for my Greatgrandmother who was Indian. We thought Cherokee but not sure. Her name was Margaret Ellen Wilson. She married Marion Bonaparte Watkins in Feb I think 1897. Not sure. Their son was William McKinley Watkins.


Surnames: Watkins, Wilson

Eva L Hunter

April 9, 2019 by snolan Leave a Comment

Looking for information on gg grandmother. Eva L Hunter born around 1880, not sure where. Found a record that said her parents were both in Alabama. She married at 18 to LH Bowden in Collins Arkansas. She died in 1913. I can not find any of her lineage. There is confusion on whether she was

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Regions: Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi
Surnames: Hunter

Great Great Grandmother and Aunt

March 28, 2019 by Brandiw486 Leave a Comment

Nancy and Elizabeth Fleetwood. Trying to find info on them. birth dates ect. Nancy Fleetwood passed away Oct. 12, 1936 and Elizabeth fleetwoods married name is Lamberson. I believe they were from Missouri.

Regions: Missouri
Surnames: Fleetwood, Lamberson

1862 Birth Records

March 28, 2019 by Northmpd Leave a Comment

I have just found an old family record that says my maternal 2nd Great Grandmother was born “Cherokee Indian Reservation 1862” and lists her name as Mary Greene Young Forbes. Now my Ancestry dna test I took says that I have less than 1% native american dna. Just curious if there is anyway to find

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Regions: North Carolina
Surnames: Buchanan, Greene, Ray, Young

Qualls/Gibbons/Rodgers, Linden TN

March 28, 2019 by raisingangels619@gmail.com Leave a Comment

I found a picture of my Great Grandmother Lucy Ann (Gibbons?) Rodgers and of my Grandmother Marjorie Verlie Rodgers Qualls. (Wife of Cecil Qualls-descendants of Isham Qualls) Both women have Native American appearances. Lucy Ann was the daughter of Cullen and Poppy Qualls Gibbons. My Father (Edward Wayne Qualls) was raised on a small farm

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Regions: Tennessee
Surnames: Baucom, Dowdy, Qualls, Rodgers

Tacket

March 15, 2019 by Cherokeepearl Leave a Comment

Sarah Tacket on Dawes Final Rolls. Been researching Family Tree for years! Trying find out if any connection to Mountain Meadows Massacre. Maggie and John H. lineage. Thanks!


Surnames: Tacket

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