This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YNJ.2ACIB/689.1.3.1.3 Message Board Post: Kay, Thanks for all the information on John CLOUD and especially his wife Betsy LACY. Could you tell me where I can get a copy of the marriage and all the proof she was full blood Cherokee. I realized they had migrated before the trail of tears. I just do not know whare and I guess how to find these records.Also how would one search for people who had applied to teh Cherokee nation and had been denied? I am descended from William's second marriage to Betsy Johnston. Then the Natchitoches Parish connection: Huey Cloud m/ Goergian Beal dtr Martha Jane Cloud m/ James "Frank" Lowery. Before his death Mr Herman Cloud of Goldonna had much Cloud history and with such great pride in his family shared what he knew with me.I would appreciate any help you can give me on these Cherokee roots we have.