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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.

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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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Genealogy Queries

Nervy Roark

September 20, 2016 by Steve33904 1 Comment

Nervey Roark the mother of my great great grandfather Findley Roark lived with him and his wife Polly Smith Roark in Clay County Kentucky in 1830s. I believe she may have have been Cherokee as I was told by family that my great great grandmother Polly Smith Roark was Cherokee but it appears she was

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Regions: Kentucky
Surnames: Roark

Cherokee Family Research

September 20, 2016 by nightengale212 1 Comment

I am doing research for my husband who is of maternal NC Cherokee heritage and trying to get what he needs together for Tribe enrollment. Here is his genealogy. Alfred Almond b. 4/1856 in Cherokee, NC. Alfred married Sarah E. Pressley (Cherokee Heritage) b. 2/1857 in Monroe, TN. Alfred and Sarah’s children are: Albert C.

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Regions: Tennessee
Surnames: Allman, Killian, Pessley

Searching Sarah/Sally King

September 20, 2016 by tant123 Leave a Comment

I am searching for information on my great grandfather’s mother, Sarah or Sally King. She is by family tradition a full-blooded Cherokee. She married John King who’s birthplace was said to be North Carolina. Sally was born in Georgia. Her son, my great grandfather, was Jasper King born 1845 in Georgia. The area they originated

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Regions: Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee
Surnames: Dodson, Howard, King, Ridge, Walker

Richardson Indians

September 20, 2016 by sharonike 1 Comment

Do the Richardsons have any American Indians as Blood relatives?

Regions: Illinois
Surnames: Haigs, Patterson, Richardsons

William Alexander Heffington

September 16, 2016 by jmpreiss 2 Comments

New theory about William Alexander Heffington was that he was given to a Caucasion family to raise around 1830. Records indicate he was born in Alabama (possibly Lawrence County,Tennessee but doubtful) in 1824 but birth records cannot be found. He was married in Lauderdale County, Alabama in 1845, lived in Iuka, Mississippi in 1846. Would

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Regions: Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee
Surnames: Heffington

Trying to find family

September 16, 2016 by bigunwhistle Leave a Comment

I’ve always been told that my mother is half cherokee and I’ve been trying to find that half of her family. Her father’s name was James Lark born:10/1/1932 died: 6/1979 in Kingsport, TN. His father was Jessie Lark Born: 05/4/1917 and his mother was Vinus Fields born 2/10/1910 my family appears to of come out

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Regions: Kentucky, Tennessee
Surnames: Fields, Lark

Melinda (Helinda?) Berry Blackberry

September 16, 2016 by arkiehawg 2 Comments

My Great, Great, Great Grandmother was Melinda Berry Blackberry who married John Nicholson in the early 1800’s somewhere in either TN/VA/NC. Myfamily has a long geneology documentation taking the Layman’s back into theVirginia are of mid-1700. They moved to the Sevier County TN area in thelate 1700’s then eventally to Missouri. In that documentation it

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Regions: North Carolina
Surnames: Berry, Blackberry, Nicholson

Bondurant Cloud families

September 14, 2016 by vcappello 3 Comments

We are trying to trace Richard Bondurant also Elizabeth and her brother Isom Cloud. One on the children’s names was Soondr Rtah Nayela Powantonoma after a relative. This person went by the English name Martha. We know that Richard was French and was at a town named Manakin in Virginia. He later settled at the

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Regions: Virginia
Surnames: Barnes, Bundurant, Cloud, McDonald, Terrell, Terril

Olds

September 14, 2016 by agandera 1 Comment

I have been told that my great grandmother is Cherokee Indian. Bessie Olds born 1890 Missouri. She married Buckland Darrell an Irish immigrant around 1904. Had a son 1905 named Donovan Darrell. They relocated to Washington state.

Regions: Missouri, Washington
Surnames: Olds

Cherokee ancestry

September 14, 2016 by witchylawya 1 Comment

Whether names of Rousseau and Gaines are Cherokee.

Regions: Alabama
Surnames: Gaines, Rousseau

Cherokee

September 14, 2016 by country Leave a Comment

How do your prove that your native without having to spend money.

Regions: Oregon
Surnames: Chris

Trying to find more info

September 14, 2016 by raven_marie 2 Comments

Hello, I’m trying to look into my great-grandmother, Peden was her maiden name (married Issac Newton Birdsill) it was said she was Cherokee, my father who is now 78, told me a little about her, but now that his memory is failing I can’t get all the info I can get, They had a son

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Regions: Colorado
Surnames: Birdsill, Peden

Dudley, Nicholas

September 14, 2016 by sed78 Leave a Comment

Looking for more records on the “Dudley” family. Dora “Belle” Dudley married my great-great grandfather Ira Ediford Dyer. Dora’s father was Nicholas Dudley (married Frances M Johnston in GA, 1852) Nicholas is believed to be at least 1/2 Cherokee. Nicholas was born in Georgia, and later moved to Texas. I don’t have any record older

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Regions: Georgia, Tennessee, Texas
Surnames: Dudley, Dyer

Biddie Scrimsher

September 14, 2016 by darlines Leave a Comment

Looking for info on Biddie Scrimsher (Schrimsher). She was born around 1812 based on info from her tombstone. She married Wallace Creasman May 9, 1839 in Monroe County TN. Per info my great grandfather (Wallace Alexander Chaudoin) told my mother, Biddie (his grandmother) was Cherokee and married Wallace Creasman who was a soldier in the

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Regions: North Carolina
Surnames: Chaudoin, Creasman, Henderson, Schrimsher, Scrimsher

Cherokee Heritage?

September 14, 2016 by sdtoler0122 Leave a Comment

My great great grandmother Susan Pierce/Pearce 1824- 1860 is reported to be full bloodied Cherokee Indian. Her father I believe was William Pierce/Pearce. I have found evidence he tried to Enroll in the Five Civilized tribes in 1898, but it was overturned. I have also found him in the Oklahoma tribe census. If anyone can

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Regions: Texas
Surnames: Pearce, Pierce

Arrainy Harding Kasinger

September 14, 2016 by lanaia Leave a Comment

GGGrandmother.

Regions: Virginia
Surnames: Harding, Kasinger

Cherokee Heritage of Polly Smith

September 14, 2016 by Steve33904 2 Comments

My great grandmother was Cherokee. She was marked to an Irish Preacher named Findley Roark. They lived in Red Bird Clay County Kentucky in 1930. She had 6 children. My grandmother Minerva 17, Mary 12, Burley 10, Matilda 8, Gilbert 6 and Fannie 3. I would like some information on her Cherokee heritage.

Regions: Arizona, Kentucky
Surnames: Smith

Carr

September 14, 2016 by bigoepperson Leave a Comment

My Grandmother was from Arkansas. Her maiden name was Carr or Karr, I have seen both. She has told me we are Black dutch, Welsh, Irish and Swedish. Is there any Cherokee history or her maiden name?

Regions: Arkansas
Surnames: Carr, Karr

Genealogy of my grandmother

September 5, 2016 by justabit56 Leave a Comment

I am looking to learn more about my grandparent. My grandmother Lula Edna Williams married Everett “Ben” Beadman, 95, Topeka, who died Tuesday, May 8, 2001 and died in 1961. Mary Frances Young, St. Paul, Minn., Deanna C. Walker, Beaumont, Texas, and Janet L. Hathaway and Delores J. Smith, both of Topeka; two sons, James

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Regions: Oklahoma
Surnames: Beadman, Hathaway, Smith, Walker, Williams, Young

Possible Cherokee ancestry

September 5, 2016 by ghostangel85 Leave a Comment

My grandma was named Linda Pinkerton and my mom Nola Pinkerton gers.

Regions: Arizona
Surnames: Pinkerton

Cherokee blood

September 5, 2016 by hotpheonix678 Leave a Comment

Is there any Cherokee blood lines attached to these surnames?

Regions: Illinois, Utah
Surnames: Perkins, Songer, Stephens

Cherokee Roots

September 5, 2016 by monty 1 Comment

I am searching for information on my fathers side of the family. Everyone is passed, but the information was not. Here is what I have: My great grandfather was Joseph Holloway. He met my great grandmother, Ella We-Hunt Holloway in Pawnee, Oklahoma in the late 1800’s. My fathers mother was Lela Childress Holloway from Pawnee.

Regions: Oklahoma
Surnames: Holloway

Gingers family

September 5, 2016 by vcappello Leave a Comment

Elizabeth Cloud married Richard Bundred.

Regions: Arizona, Indiana, Kansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia
Surnames: Barnes, Bundred, Cloud, Terrell, Tyrrell

Looking for Cherokee roots

September 5, 2016 by Steve33904 1 Comment

My great grandmother was Cherokee Indian. Her marked name was Roark and she lived in Redbird, Kentucky before WWll. She went by the name Polly. Her son and daughter’s names were Bidge(Abidga) and Birdie Roark.

Regions: North Carolina
Surnames: Roark

Looking for Ananias Hinton

August 31, 2016 by scorpio28 1 Comment

Was told that my grandfather Ananias Hinton was a full blood Cherokee Indian. My mother is said to be his only daughter. I would like to get more information about him. From my understanding he last lived in St. Louis Mo.

Regions: Missouri
Surnames: Hinton

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