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In reply to the discussion: My family thought for generations that we had a Cherokee ancestor. [View all]Codeine
(25,586 posts)24. I think around the 1960s every family
suddenly had a Cherokee ancestor slip into the family history, right around the time a lot of families started to accidentally forget some of their ancestors from south of the Mason-Dixon Line.
Our family always claimed some Scots lineage with the name McDiarmid (something like that) popping up a bit, but when online ancestry searches became possible I learned that it was actually Madeiras, and that we had a chunk of Portuguese background that was, for whatever reason, embarrassing enough that it got hidden.
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WE supposedely have an Indian ancestor on moms side. My dad ALL Germans. (probably the BAD guys)
trueblue2007
Aug 2019
#23
Sounds like a good reason to be neither Catholic nor Protestant! But hardly disreputable.
DFW
Aug 2019
#30
While it's possible that it's a family myth, it's also possible that it isn't...
WePurrsevere
Aug 2019
#7
I've researched family stories. I've proved one wrong while another has been
applegrove
Aug 2019
#13
What I want to know is - why does everyone claim Cherokee ancestry, wny not some other tribe like
Kashkakat v.2.0
Aug 2019
#17