Good Day: The following information is what I posted when I requested to be included in Cherokee rootsweb.com. If anyone can assist me in the history of my family, it would be immensely appreciated: Please subscribe me to your publications. My Name is Steven C. Brown, D.D. and I reside in Albuquerque,NM. My mother, Faye Irene, is a Matney from Gilman, Iowa, and she is still alive and resides in both Iowa and Arizona. Her parents were Charles, Sr. and Elizabeth Matney and they had 13 children, 12 of which lived. We have always known that there is some Native American genealogy in our bloodline, but have never known any specific details. My great niece did a study and ran into problems with some tribal councils because their records showed only the birth of a half-breed child, or children. Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated. I am a prolific writer and man of God, and would like to share my heritage to the proud Cherokee nation if it is appropriate. Can I test for the CherokeeL-gene? I write under the pen name of Charles Benjamin Steele, an acronym for my children's names, and my website is lengthy with a popular blog and a link to Amazon.com, my publisher of 9 books: www.charlesbenjaminsteele.com Sincerely, Steven C. Brown