Hi. i wanted to know if family and other relatives can read your?

can family obtain your last will and testament if your alive last will and testament if your alive and if so would they have to pay and can i prevent it from happening? Thanks

Does it cost anything to change your name?

I was just wondering if it cost anything to change your name? I'm going in tomorrow to change my last name to my husbands now that we're married and I wanted to know if I can change my first and middle name while I'm at it? And would it cost me anything?

YOUR nationality is American. (you probably have a birth certificate to prove it) You don't have any citizenship in the Cherokee nation. You have a family story about a Cherokee ancestor....but.....there are some problems with it.........

Um.....there were never any Cherokee in Florida to begin with. (ever) Nor did they settle in Alabama. They settled in Oklahoma. Even assuming for a second that your family story were true, what you have is a case where someone decided to abandon his nation and cut all ties to his family, clan, tribe, and culture, and instead assimilate into mainstream America. In that case, he has forfeited his citizenship in the Cherokee nation.

In any case.....citizenship in the Cherokee nation is by birth. Meaning you must be the child of a person already enrolled as a citizen. Even if your 2x great grandfather WERE Cherokee ( and he almost certainly wasn't....just check the census records for the place where he lived) he gave up Cherokee citizenship and took up US citizenship instead. That was HIS choice, to break all ties with his people, instead of fulfilling his duty to his family, clan and nation. So blame him if you want.

What you are going to have to do is check the census records for the places and dates where your ancestors lived, and see how they are listed. If they actually were Indians, they will be recorded as such (because Indians weren't US citizens until 1924, and didn't have voting rights until 1978) however...I want to warn you for what you are actually going to find instead. There is a 99.98% chance that your "Cherokee" ancestors weren't Cherokee at all. They were most likely mulatto (black/white mixed) this was socially unacceptable at that place and time, so instead of admitting to being racially mixed, mixed persons almost universally claimed to have Cherokee ancestry instead (to explain their appearance) The fact that your ancestors are from 2 places the Cherokee never lived (florida and Alabama) also leans in that direction.

I'm sorry, because this is certainly not the answer you wanted to hear. But I encourage you to actually check the census records for yourself. An honest truth is surely better than a fictional fantasy.

1. Yahoo PROHIBITS posting information concerning living persons, which I assume grandpa to be, by your question.
2. If you are a MINOR, then it is up to your parent to assist you in this. None of the regulars here are going to go behind a parent's back, and find someone without an adult consent.

Medical records are PROTECTED by privacy laws.. and that includes deceased persons. Not to mention, you only say "relative" which could mean anything.
Edward is very incorrect about taking a death certificate for them. Nor does your question indicate a legal location and/ or time frame.