It was a blood test then?

Even a sixteenth is no small thing. It means one of your loving grandparents could have been one quarter Cherokee.

I’m lucky enough to have had a tenacious, blood hound of a cousin, who got into ancestral genealogy while in college. She mapped out our entire heritage going back hundreds of years. She used birth, death, marriage and baptismal certificates, state historical archives, and met up with other historians who had mapped out their own lines that intersected with ours.