This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zARBAIB/135.3.2.1 Message Board Post: I doubt if we are related.Although my name is Sweatt and we do have French in our blood line.The original spelling of my name was Sweat which is from my GGG Grandmothers side who were Cherokee.She married a Frenchman named Layfayette.This was frowned upon in the Cherokee nation.Though they did allow the marriage to take place,he had to take her last name.The name was changed by my Fathers mother who added an extra T to the name because she didn't like the way it looked on paper.From my understanding Sweat is Cherokee and Sweatt is English.