I believe you are stating that your Native American Indian's mtDNA was somehow passed on to your male relatives. That is biologically impossible as her mtDNA was passed from her to her sons and daughters, but only her daughters could pass it on to the next generation, which was not a "full blooded" Cherokee. GWP At 12:35 PM 7/3/2010, you wrote: >*some in my snell family believe that joseph,s first wife may have been of >full blood cherokee,that is why we are not hearing much on his first >wife.that would have made my gggggrandfather full blooded cherokee.then he >would have passed it down to my ggggrandfather william edmond page,he then >would have passed it down to my gggrandfather john w.page.* > >On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 8:54 AM, George W. Page <gwpage@erols.com> wrote: > > > Good question, but no one to my knowledge knows or has found her name > > in historical documents. > > We just refer to her as "Unknown" > > > > GWP