Cathy Drury connell
I am trying to find out if one of my great grandmothers was a Cherokee her name is (5th great grandmother} (3rd great grandmother) Thamar Martha Taylor, and Elizabeth "Appa mnu Coreetuk" Martin (Lumbee) in the Carolina area. I have been trying to validate that they were Cherokee and not just a legend I hope you can help me
Thanks
Cathy Drury Connell
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Cathy
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Good Luck.
I hope, that this may help/assist, somewhat.
Brett
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have you considered doing any DNA testing?
(though DNA may or may not always give a clear and specific answer) especially if the full blooded Native connection is beyond like 5-6 generations.)
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One rule of thumb says any ethnicity amount under 5% should be treated with suspicion. You will inherit about 12.5% of your DNA from a great-grandmother, and if she was fully Native American then a reliable DNA company such as Ancestry.com should detect the Native American DNA. However a 3 times or 5 times great-grandmother is too far back for DNA. The exception however is she is on the direct female line (i.e. your mother's mother's mother's ....). In the case, a mtDNA test from FamilyTreeDNA will tell you your haplogroup, and then you can see if that haplogroup is a Native American or European haplogroup.
I hope this helps.
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