I can tell you if you find much of your family it is because they didn't do a good job of disappearing ==this what the Cherokee tried to do ==this part of the country they called themselfs hillbillys other places== Black Irish-french-black dutch-what ever worked==one old chief gave every one in his tribe a new surname in the same family there was smith-jones-brown-etc.this when Mo.said there was no indians in Mo. SHADOW BEAR