Aside from looking for you Cherokee ancestry, be sure to search the surname resources online that may help you find your connection. There is a free space at the Genforum.com for looking for surnames. Inside the surname site you can do a search for your first names, spousal surname or location - using one word for the search. An example for Linda searching for Jacob Cox in Georgia would be using the name Delilah or as was more common for them to use their middle name - I went to the COX Genforum at http://genforum.genealogy.com/cox/ and used Adaline and came up with someone researching Jacob and Adaline Cox in Gordon County, Georgia. You can reply to the message and with a little luck perhaps find your elusive information. Using other knowns may help as well, such as Kentucky, or Cherokee, or her surname if you know it. Posting sometimes brings help as well. using subject lines to attract attention example: Jacob Cox b. 1818 in Kentucky, or Jacob & Delilah Adaline Cox in Georgia about 1838. More often then not when doing the Cherokee heritage research you will get better results if you try to find all you can about the collateral line or the spousal line or the children. It was through the children's extended lines of our family that we found the Guion Miller Application information. Leslie Thomas http://www.members.tripod.com/~Wakaakta/Genealogy-1.html True worth is in being, not seeming; In doing, each day that goes by, Some little good, not in dreaming Of great things to do by and by. For whatever men say in their blindness, And in spite of the fancies of youth, There's nothing so kingly as kindness And nothing so royal as truth. Alice Cary (1820-1871)