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Finding your Cherokee princess grandmother
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 2002 "So you think your great-grandmother was a Cherokee Indian princess? Think again. Daughters of Cherokee chiefs had no such designation. But that doesn't stop many persistent people from spending futile hours trying to prove their lineage to American Indian royalty. Just like many researchers who employ the "jump back" method and pluck any plausible immigrant off a passenger ship and claim him as their own, some folks troll through tribal rolls seeking a matching name. . ." Get the Story:
Donna Murray Allen: Grandma? She probably wasn't Indian princess (The St. Petersburg Times 8/15)
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