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Native American Ancestry Research

I want to sandwich this between our two Native American centric Society Virtual Meetings for March and April 2021. I think some will find the information and links helpful if you are working with NA research.  This post is one I originally wrote for the Winter 2020 issue of the Wake Genealogy Watch newsletter .   - Cyndi Deal " But her name is Kizzie and it says she is Native American…," said the friend I am helping to build a DNA family tree. "Does that mean I am Native American? There were rumors about my father being Native American!"  Such hope. Such excitement. This in regards to a person purported to be her great grandmother labeled as such in someone else's undocumented tree… - CD   I gingerly explained that though there may have been someone at some point in the distant past that was Native American (NA), there are currently   no known records and no NA showing in her DNA ethnicity results to confirm that story. A sister also did not have N...