You should ask your priest. Genealogists don't do angels. If I move your question to the religion category, the regulars there will mock you.

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The convention is that you divide by half. So
Great grandmother = 100% or 1 (Although she probably wasn't.)
Grandparent = 50% or 1/2
Parent = 25% or 1/4
You = 12.5% or 1/8

If you search this category for "Cherokee" you'll see why questions like yours make the real NA's angry. No one has a family legend of being a Huguenot, oddly enough. You'd think they would, Huguenots being intelligent and handsome, although our noses tend to be large. We keep our wavy chestnut hair well into our 60's, too.

Thousands of people DO have a family legend of being a Cherokee, enough to qualify for "Benefits". They think that if Great grandma had straight black hair, dark skin and high cheekbones, they ought to get a check every month; that and a full-ride scholarship for all the tykes.

Henry Louis Gates, the history professor who had a genealogy show on PBS, asked a barbershop full of black men if their family had a legend of a Cherokee great grandmother on one episode. They ALL smiled and nodded.

Predominately Black families used the "Cherokee" myth to explain facial features of ancestors who were lighter than they should have been, and predominately White families played the Cherokee card to explain ancestors who were darker than they should have been. In 95% of both cases, white slave owners had trifled with the help.

If your grandmother is full anything - Hispanic, Norwegian, Cherokee - and no one else is, then
one of your parents = 1/2 of that ethnic heritage
You = 1/4 of it

In some areas, that's enough to get ethnic slurs thrown at you; in others, it doesn't matter.

The word that rhymes with "Rick" and starts with "Sp" is considered an insult in the USA, just like the one that starts with "n" and rhymes with "bigger" and the one that starts with "Ch" and rhymes with "link". Polite people don't use any of them.

None. You have a family story that your great-granny was Native....Cherokee, right? (funny, how out of 566 different tribes, I was able to guess.)

Native americans come in one type- tribal citizens. You can't be part or a fraction of a citizen. If you have tribal citizenship, then you ARE native American. If you don't, then you aren't. Your' just one of the 3 million people ( half a dozen of whom post your identical family myth here every week) with the famous "Cherokee great-granma story".

If you had any actual native ancestry, the BIA would have issued you a CDIB at birth, and you'd either have tribal citizenship, or have relatives who did. So you don't.

Proof? Simple. What's your great-grandma's name, tribe, and place of birth? We can verify whether or not she was indian by checking the census records and tribal rolls. Have an answer for you tonight.

Poland and some eastern European countries do have family coats of arms unlike Britain and western European countries where they belong to individuals not families. Here is a link:

http://www.lbks.lt/index.php/en/articles...

Probably the best thing to do is to trace your ancestry back to the ancestors that used the coat of arms and try to make contact with family in Lithuania.

We know what you mean, just like we'd know what you meant if you wrote "Me and Billy are going to play basketball on a cement court." We cringe at the mistakes, but we know what you mean.

https://familysearch.org/search/record/r...
is free. They have billions of records; over 28,000,000 for "Smith", for instance. They have just 132 for "Orelhomme", so it is VERY rare or you mis-typed it. Most of the records are in Florida. Poke around; you may learn something. If I was guessing, I'd guess it was a variant of something French or Spanish; "Spanish" in Florida often means "Cuban".

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