This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.ethnic.natam.nations.choctaw.choctawnat/2845/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hello! I have been chasing these elusive ancestors for over 35 years and hope that someone out there has information about these people. Unfortunately, my grandparents took the information about their ancestors with them when they left and crossed over. We have some knowledge of our native American roots, our DNA documents that we are indeed native, but specific documentation remains hidden. I promised my mother that I would find the 'proof' about them one day and have not been able to do so, and can't afford a genealogist to do the research for me, and now that mom is elderly and ill, I wish I could give her the good news that I found them. These people have the same names as my ancestors, but I don't know if they are the same people. Naturally, they are very common names and make it doubly hard to determine. Our family begun in North Carolina, the mountains of Tennessee, many stayed in southeastern Kentucky, and many went west to Oklahoma. The words Chickasaw, Creek, Lumbee, and Cherokee, as well as Mulungeon, and The Trail of Tears were thrown around a lot in family circles. So if anyone is researching any of these people or know who they are or have someone with the same name in their ancestry, please contact me: moonrose2u@yahoo.com. I am most eager to find them!! Thank you in advance! Genetta/Jennetta Griffin #5086 pg 320 Griffin, Susan #25346 Griffin, Joe #5880 (& 31068 on the Guion roll-same person??) Barrett, Sallie #18770 (Guion) Griffin John #3644 (Guion) Griffin, Jenetta #8802 (Guion) Martin, Lucy #35766 " Combs Bertie #6887 " Morgan, John (Kern) Holt, William #661 Holt, Lucy #1662 Holt, Sylvia #3155 Allen, Lucy #2022 Bird, Lewis, Nannie Griffin #206 Edwards, Sallie roll 2086 pg 24 George Frazier #1973 Solomon Frazier #5375 Ella Smith #6679 Walter Bolling #903 Combs #694 Holt, George #3460 " Morgan, John (Kern) Combs, William #1420 Allen, Abraham #3440 roll 490 Pearl Combs #230 Katie Combs #1617 Joseph Combs #1618 Birl Combs #1620 Jenetta Byrd #6382 John Bolling #9902 Sophia Brewer #5917 Sudie Lewis #3693 Sallie Lewis #3696 Sarah Lewis #3754 Nick Brewer #2079 Sally Brewer #25 Mattie Brewer #2080 Rebecca Howard #4089 Jessie Howard #4090 Barrett, Sallie #18870 (Guion) Griffin, Lucy #38952 " Jennett Griffin #8802 " Jessie Brewer #5939 Sergent (Silas, Allen, Ephraim) Hensley (John, William) Jones (Emily, Hiram) Lewis (Eli, Abner) Hall (Sintha) Names that are on my chart: Allen Bird Barger Barrett Jenkins Dixon Bolling Bishop And names that were on Trail of Tears that may have a connection with my family: Griffin, Lewis Brewer, Thomas Griffin, Nancy Smith, Jesse Smith, Eli Edwards, Edward