This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith/Ware/Settle/Dodson/Lane/Spradling/Fant Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RKT.2ACIB/1544.1 Message Board Post: I'm most interested in learning more about you. I don't begin to know how to trace our Cherokee heritage. Family names include Lane - I understand this single surname appears in the Book of Nations in OK but I don't know what that means. Dodson is another as well as Ware. Oral family tradition says we have Cherokee ancestors, I'd love to find them. Congratulations and good luck with your Genealogy Cleo [email protected]