Is there a place to test my blood? That will not tell you anything at all and DNA is not a blood test and would only work if you tested your DNA against some individual person who you thought was your father. You would have to read terms and conditions of your insurance however I doubt it as it is not medical.

Living people have privacy rights so even if you have a name you can't research living peoples records and you don't have even a name so you will never find anyone with out that.

The only person who knows is your mother, so I suggest you write her a letter and ask the question of her as that is the only way you are likely to get any information

There is no such thing as a "benefits card". There is a CDIB, which is issued by the BIA, and documents you as having native ancestry, which is needed for tribal enrollment of you and your descendants. There are no "benefits". You don't get free money from the government, free college, and you still pay the same taxes.

btw...there are three different Cherokee tribes (and you can't combine ancestry from different ones) and you don't specify which one you are claiming ancestry from.

Would you qualify for tribal citizenship? No. The Cherokee have closed enrollment, meaning that you must have one parent already a citizen, and enroll yourself before the age of 18. They have done this because 3 million people are flooding them with identical claims as yours, all saying their great-grandmother was a Cherokee. (and none of them are true)

If you really think that your family folklore is true, then find out WHICH Cherokee tribe they were from, then contact that tribe and get their enrollment numbers. Then you get copies of birth certificates proving you are descended from them. Fill out this form, and mail it in, to get your CDIB
http://www.bia.gov/cs/groups/public/docu...

btw....1/6th is an impossible fraction. No one can be 1/6th anything.

Here's a start. 1870 was the first year they listed black people by name. Wikipedia told me her parents were Sam and Patsy McLeod. With one exception - Patsy - everyone is well within the expected limits of accuracy for the census for poorly educated people. Given Sallie there wasn't born when Patsy was 7 years old, but could well have been born when Patsy was 17, I'd bet the 47 in 1880 is closer to the truth than the 28 in 1870.

1870; Census Place: Lynchburg, Sumter, South Carolina; Roll: M593_1509; Page: 69B; Image: 144

Samuel Mcleod, 40
Patcey Mcleod, 28
Sallie Mcleod, 21
Samuel Mcleod, 16
Seiley Mcleod, 14
Kelley Mcleod, 13
Beauregard Mcleod, 9
Rebecca Mcleod, 11
Julia Mcleod, 8
Kezzie Mcleod, 3
William T Mcleod, 1

1880; Census Place: Lynchburg, Sumter, South Carolina; Roll: 1241; Family History Film: 1255241; Page: 87C; Enumeration District: 115.

Samuel Mcleod, 50
Patsey Mcleod, 47
Beauregord Mcleod, 19
Julia Mcleod, 17
Kissie Mcleod, 12
William T. Mcleod, 10
Mary Jane Mcleod, 4

1900; Census Place: Palatka City, Putnam, Florida; Roll: 176; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 0151; FHL microfilm: 1240176

Albistons Bethune, 29
Mary Bethune, 25
Albistons Bethune, 1

1910; Census Place: Daytona Industrial Training School, Daytona, Volusia, Florida; Roll: T624_168; Page: 23B; Enumeration District: 0163; FHL microfilm: 1374181.

Mary M Bethune, 34
Anita Pinckney, 19, student

1920; Census Place: Daytona, Volusia, Florida; Roll: T625_230; Page: 13B; Enumeration District: 192; Image: 349

Mary M C Bethune, 40
Anna Papino, 28
Panchita Portal, 26
Margaret Bonneau, 38[28]
Frances Reid, 24[34]
Rebecca Reid, 20
Georgie Mcleod, 25, NIECE (Everyone else is staff)
Frances Keyser, 50

1930; Census Place: Daytona Beach, Volusia, Florida; Roll: 335; Page: 29A; Enumeration District: 0028; Image: 207.0; FHL microfilm: 2340070.

Mary Bethune, 55, president
Abert M Bethune, 32, son
Abert M Bethune, 8, grandson
Henry Coleman, 42, Dean of men
Lulu M Cropper, 55, Dean of women
Thomas Morris, 36, Proctor of men

1940; Census Place: Daytona Beach, Volusia, Florida; Roll: T627_620; Page: 62A; Enumeration District: 64-29.

Mary Mcleod Bethune, 65
Albert Bethune, 41, son
Margaret Bethune, 34, dau-in-law
Albert Bethune, 17, gr-son

If she is his niece by marriage, she isn't related to you at all. If the great uncle is not a sibling of one of your grandparents, he is only related to you by marriage then the only family of his that is related to you are the children, grandchildren etc he produced by the great aunt who is a sibling of one of your parents. His nieces and nephews, brothers and sisters, parents are not.

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