Surely this can not be all there is to it. My great-grandmother was the daughter of Mack Coleman and her mother was a Cherokee Indian. She died when my great-grandmother was only 3 months old. Her father had one son I understand and they are all deceased. Don’t know if he has any children or not. My great-granmother had two children, a son and a daughter. My great uncle is deceased also and he had three sons and a daughter. The daughter is deceased and so is one of his sons. He had another son who ran away from us because he was angry with his father and he use to live in Grand Prairie, Texas. My grandmother only had two daughters, my mother is deceased and she has a sister who we thought was deceased also but found out after 40 years she was still alive. I went to see her but she had such harsh things to say about my mother that I cannot bear to be in her presence. I have 6 sisters and brothers and 5 children of my own but they could give a damn about a family relationship. Except for one brother who is in Virginia. I know this can not be all there is to my family.
On my great-grand father’s side he had several brothers and they including him are all deceased. I knew one of his brothers children and use to play with them but the boys molested me so I could care less about knowing where they are. I need and want to know the other side of my family. There has got to be family on the Cherokee side but how do I find out.
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Thanks May & Janice for all your helpful comments. I really appreciate them.
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The first place I would go is: http://www.allthingscherokee.com/ you can search for your family name on their site. If you don’t know what the family name is, you might be able to search by area. Good luck!
Hi Deanie,
Thank you for our reply and the information you provided. I wouldn’t know where to start not having any names. I just know that this is not all there is to my family. We all came from somewhere and there are off springs from that. I just pray for the family that I don’t have since all the others are already gone to heaven and these that are here are so selfish and unconcerned that I feel there are family members out there someplace that could love each other the way it should be done.
ANCESTRY.COM is another source, although you have to pay to belong, it is really very good. I believe you can get a free trial subscription (I may be wrong about that, or they may no longer offer it, but worth checking into).
Having a sense of possibilities is cool (I’ve done my own genealogical tree), but I wouldnt plan on finding some long lost relative to suddenly bond with and spend holidays together. If you arent in each others lives by now, creating that type of relationship at our age with strangers and their own families and no shared history is highly unlikely. But it is cool to see where we have come from.
DallasLady thank you for your reply. I’ve heard of ancestry.com. You are right digging old bones sometimes can not always be a good thing. People come with a lot of baggage and I would be better off with it being the way that it is no matter how lonely it can be. I find that with family now days, It seems there is so much anger and hostility among them that the real meaning of fmaily has taken a walk as with morals and self respect. Oh well it is a thought that maybe will never have an answer to. Thanks again.
I have Cherokee blood also, but have been unable to trace it. I belong to Ancestry.com and have for several years. I have been able to trace my ancestors back to the 1400′s in England and Scotland and have connected with some of my Mom’s family back in Illinois. My Mom’s mother, father and brother all died in the 1918 flu epidemic and she moved out West to live with an Aunt. Now I correspond regularly with several cousins I didn’t even know I had on both my Mother and Father’s sides. I’m hoping someday to meet some of them.