Thread:Alicia84/@comment-30339728-20161225010714/@comment-27294075-20170125063321

Alicia84 wrote: Genealogy fascinates me to no end. I did tons of genealogy work about 5 years ago. I was able to get back to the 1200's on my husband's grandmother's side. I didn't even think such a thing was possible! Unfortunately, I got stuck on my grandfather's side due to being Native American. It used to be a "bad" thing to identify to the census folks that your were other than white. I couldn't get very far. I am still and will always be very sad about that. I just wish I could go back in time and speak to those who may have known more...

Seeing you post is a positive sign that you may be feeling better this day, I hope.☺️

Ah, my dear Alicia...we share that same deep love for history. When we had cable, the History Channel was a must for me. Interesting enough, I too have a Native American connection on my father's side of the family. I am from the south in North Carolina.

My parents and grandparents are all gone now, and there was very little record keeping to speak of with their families. Many people during my grandparents day did not even have birth certificates as they were birthed at home. And going even further back several generations, any town hall records that may have existed were burned during the Civil War, so to find my past heritage stops there.

My honeyman did take me to the reservation about 10 years ago. What a tremendous overwhelming feeling of belonging or connecting that experience was. The reservation is in Cherokee, NC in the beautiful Great Smokey Mountains. I will never forget their beauty, or those wonderful people I met that day..