Re: Amanda Jane Vandiver, Mena, Arkansas
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Re: Amanda Jane Vandiver, Mena, Arkansas
Doreen Roach 1/14/07
Dee,
The Choctaw angle keeps resurfacing in the family due to where they lived and how they lived.
Your ggrandmother's cousin (my gggrandmother) married into DUKE line who claimed Cherokee, but were only ones who traded with Choctaws and were buried in Choctaw cemetary before it was taken over by local church.
The NEAL/NAILs AL sorjourn was in Choctaw area and it appears a cousin may have married into the Chief's family.
I have spent MANY years trying to find hard evidence to no avail, but timlines could account for the absence of records (if they left areas before federal census of indians were taken)....
we have a family web site on MYFamily that has alot of info and photos on your side of the house. Are any of your cousins on it?
contact me off site at [email protected] and I can forward your info to the website manager and see if we can hook you up with all your cousins!
nic