THANKSGIVING IS FOR FRIENDSHIP TOO

Our harvest festival of PLENTY.

THANKSGIVING DONE RIGHT is my favorite holiday.

It's spiritual, not religious, and it's important to invite your friends who don't have

local family.

PILGRIMS IN THE FAMILY TREE ?

EXCERPT:

Alden was among the 100 or so European men, women, and children who boarded the Mayflower bound for America in September 1620, but after the first winter only about 50 remained to face the New World. From that modest number came estimated millions who could claim a direct lineage to the Mayflower voyagers. Yet very few of those have assembled the irrefutable proof to join the official ranks of Pilgrim descendants.

The General Society of Mayflower Descendants, an organization whose mission is to “honor the memory of those who made that perilous voyage,’’ was chartered in Boston in 1897 and now had 52 chapters nationwide. Only those with Pilgrim blood ties are admitted as members. About 82,268 descendants have been documented in the 113 years since the society was established.


YOU CAN ASK THE MAYFLOWER SOCIETY FOR SOME HELP, but it's up to you to prove you're related.


http://archive.boston.com/news/history/articles/2010/09/12/pilgrims_in_the_family_tree/

ROY HAMILTON - CHEROKEE NATION GENEALOGIST - LECTURE

Roy Hamilton, Cultural Advisor, Genealogist, and Project Manager with the Cherokee Nation

CHEROKEE BY BLOOD or BY CITIZENSHIP of THE CHEROKEE NATION?

BIOLOGY DOES NOT MAKE YOU A CITIZEN OF THE NATION.

ARE THE DAWES ROLLS THE END ALL?

NOTES:

1830's began the notion of blood quantum.

For the Cherokee you were or you were not.  The mother is the key, the mother holds the clan.

Trail of Tears - Cherokee Towns in various locations (currently many states).

Nancy Ward descendants.

FAMILY RECORD