What is your percentage of Cherokee ancestry?

My mother swears up and down that her father is 25% Cherokee, from his mother’s line to a full blood grandmother being the link to the Native American ancestry. There have been genealogical ferrets digging both into my family’s lineage and my husband’s. read more

A bit more than 7 percent of Cherokee families owned slaves by the mid-1830s; a small number, but enough to give rise to a now pervasive idea in black culture: descent from a Cherokee ancestor. In the early 20 th century, the descendants of Cherokee slaves related stories of how their black forebears accompanied Cherokees on the forced removals of the 1830s. read more

If your DNA results reveal that you do not have Native American ancestry, you can save yourself the time and energy of trying to locate a Native American ancestor who does not exist. Advertisement DNA is a complicated matter in tribal enrollment. read more