In a message dated 10/16/99 10:54:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, WFORDSUE@aol.com writes: << I have just ordered but haven't received "Cherokee by Blood" by Tony McClure, as I am trying to verify my Cherokee ancestry through the Munday/Mundy family and the Payne family from Cherokee County. I hear it's a great source. >> Sorry to intrude on the conversation, but I noticed in my research that my great grandmother Mary Galloway had a sister, Gladys Mae Galloway, who is supposed to have married a Bud PAYNE (what Bud stands for, I don't know). Anyway, they were from the Fry, GA area which is in Fannin Co., GA, just over the border from Polk Co., TN and Cherokee Co., NC. Just wondered if there might be a connection. Khristy Stull SAPP in NC