Most of the State Libraries are online now, the Southern Claims Comm. search of TN had a link off to TN Archives, and I was wondering if you'd looked at it. I noticed it has listed a source there to use for Cherokee Ancestry in TN. (Don't have any myself, but we've got a Victoria County Genealogy Society meeting coming up in the fall about that. Interests me, because husband is "supposed" to have some Native American ancestry way back, which I'm inclined to think might be Shawnee, not Cherokee, but the chase has been hard. Problem with his is like many of any tribe, they were never counted in any census, never having been on a reservation. Many groups of various tribes used KY as a hunting ground, some evidently hung around, but not as a nameable group or location. His are like many other early Native American lines in those early KY state years, they were there as individuals, or small groups, and if they stayed around, just finally merged in with the others, and there isn't any record of them as "a" tribe, no tracks! There is much mention of them in books, but not helpful in hunting ancestry. No census for KY and any tribe, that I'm aware of. bj http://www.state.tn.us/sos/statelib/pubsvs/intro.htm#tn_bibliographies