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Tracing my Cherokee roots
« on: Tuesday 22 May 18 16:43 BST (UK) »
I've looked through Census records but I'm having no luck tracing it back and I know my grandmother walk the Trail of Tears and was actually placed into the Carolinas Indian Reservation but I can't find anything on census reports because it lists her as white can anybody help me with this

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Wiltshire:  Banks, Taylor
Somerset:  Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire:  Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol:  Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down:  Ennis, McGee
Wicklow:  Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire:  Logan, Conning
Wisconsin:  Ennis, Chapman, Logan, Ware
Maine:  Ware, Mitchell, Tarr, Davis

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Re: Tracing my Cherokee roots
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 22 May 18 17:50 BST (UK) »
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/05/22/democrats-heres-a-better-message-oust-the-gops-wimps-and-weaklings/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.148e3fa5ebde

rato - I think you may have pasted the wrong link.  It took me to a page from the Washington Post "Democrats, here’s a better message: ‘Oust the GOP’s wimps and weaklings’".  Is this what you intended?

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Wiltshire:  Banks, Taylor
Somerset:  Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire:  Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol:  Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down:  Ennis, McGee
Wicklow:  Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire:  Logan, Conning
Wisconsin:  Ennis, Chapman, Logan, Ware
Maine:  Ware, Mitchell, Tarr, Davis


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Re: Tracing my Cherokee roots
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 22 May 18 21:16 BST (UK) »
The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of Native American peoples from their ancestral homelands between 1830-1850. My understanding was the Cherokee removal was in 1838.

Until c1924 Native Americans were not legally  American citizens, so prior census to this should show her as Native American ( NA/Indians/ their tribe), so if your grandmother is written as white, then that suggests she was not NA and if she walked in 1838 (180 yrs is a long time ago for it to be your Grandmother)  there was no option at that time but for her parent/s to register her with her tribe at birth, so even if on the 1930/1940 census she could potentially be  classified white/American, however what is she classified as before on earlier census?
Leicestershire:Chamberlain, Dakin, Wilkinson, Moss, Cook, Welland, Dobson, Roper,Palfreman, Squires, Hames, Goddard, Topliss, Twells,Bacon.
Northamps:Sykes, Harris, Rice,Knowles.
Rutland:Clements, Dalby, Osbourne, Durance, Smith,Christian, Royce, Richardson,Oakham, Dewey,Newbold,Cox,Chamberlaine,Brow, Cooper, Bloodworth,Clarke
Durham/Yorks:Woodend, Watson,Parker, Dowser
Suffolk/Norfolk:Groom, Coleman, Kemp, Barnard, Alden,Blomfield,Smith,Howes,Knight,Kett,Fryston
Lincolnshire:Clements, Woodend

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Re: Tracing my Cherokee roots
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 23 May 18 06:41 BST (UK) »
Could you give us a little more information, such as her name, please?