Just a little back ground. Grandpa just passed, but left oklahoma after ww2 and never went back to Oklahoma. This makes my research oh so much harder because we have no close family in OK anymore. So my question is? Apparently when the family relocated to Oklahoma (with the McIntosh faction), ggggma Yarnah married George Bell. Now it gets really fuzzy, every historical document lists him as 1/2 white 1/2 cherokee. BUT he is enrolled as a Creek. The story that has been passed down through to us is that there was a land grab by the cherokees in muskogee and as such ggggpa George Bell disowned them. Saying that he would rather be white than cherokee. Does anyone have an opinion on this? Did this happen a lot or at all? Would he have to be adopted by the creeks? Or was he creek through marriage. He is always listed as having indian blood. Can he be listed on the creek rolls despite having cherokee blood ? (if true). I guess I need to know if there is a cherokee connection and where that takes me in my research. Any insight would be really helpful Thanks Carole

Carole, By "coincidence"... :o) I think I have a genealogy book written by a man in Oklahoma , named Bell. I will have to look it up in my goods. He dwells extensively on his Bell family and how they tie into several Cherokee families. The book is one of those self published books by the individual and likely not redibly available. Send me a note to my [email protected] and I will locate the title /author/ publisher / etc. Maybe I can check a few questions for you using the book? Richard B. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremy Carole Cam and Lochie" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 1:28 PM Subject: [CREEK-SOUTHEAST] another question :) > Just a little back ground. > > Grandpa just passed, but left oklahoma after ww2 and never went back > to Oklahoma. This makes my research oh so much harder because we have > no close family in OK anymore. So my question is? > Apparently when the family relocated to Oklahoma (with the McIntosh > faction), ggggma Yarnah married George Bell. Now it gets really > fuzzy, every historical document lists him as 1/2 white 1/2 cherokee. > BUT he is enrolled as a Creek. The story that has been passed down > through to us is that there was a land grab by the cherokees in > muskogee and as such ggggpa George Bell disowned them. Saying that he > would rather be white than cherokee. > > Does anyone have an opinion on this? Did this happen a lot or at all? > Would he have to be adopted by the creeks? Or was he creek through > marriage. He is always listed as having indian blood. Can he be > listed on the creek rolls despite having cherokee blood ? (if true). > I guess I need to know if there is a cherokee connection and where > that takes me in my research. > > > Any insight would be really helpful > > Thanks > Carole > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >