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Politics : The Donald Trump Presidency
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To: StockDung who wrote (9695)5/8/2016 1:46:29 PM
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I was making an application on a form several years ago.

One of the questions was are you:

English

German

spanish

Indian

African American

French

Irish and more on the list

I decided to check all that are known in my heritage having done research since the
1970's ---English, Welsh, German, Spanish, Portugal, and yes Cherokee and French.

I knew there was no single answer. Finally I got a reply back------saying to choose one.
What was being looked for was whether I qualified via any of the minority groups.

Yes, I do not qualify as a Cherokee in the Virginia area. There is one lady in Richmond, Va.
who has the Cherokee history. We were corresponding via the internet------guess what, I missed
by one generation according to the records she had regarding the Virginia Cherokees.

But not good enough according to form I had to fill in. Since there was no category for white people,
I chose English as that could be documented.

Where the non-Cherokee woman made her mistake was using 'hearsay within the family' in a political campaign as the truth. ( A big mistake in a political campaign.)

As I researched ancestry I learned that living families would provide information on the deaths as being a part of a given religion when there was no documentation to prove.

Then we can get into the family names---------everyone wants to be related to an historic figure.
Well forget that-----few can prove that they are.

mj

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