On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 19:36:42 -0400 (EDT), Gordon W. Pace wrote > Roy: > Thanks for your message about Cherokee Pace ancestry. I have found > that there are quite a few Pace lineages that are connected to the > Cherokees of OK. I have a significant amount of Cherokee blood and > have traced my Cherokee ancestry back about 300 years to one of the > earliest known Cherokee Chiefs, Chief Moytoy. I am very proud of > this ancestry. Gordon W. pace Albert James Pickett's on-line book: HISTORY OF ALABAMA has a chapter THE CHEROKEES. http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cmamcrk4/pkt6.html#anchor1577366 and many other chapters on early south/east aboriginal life. customs and history. It's a most interesting read.