Tribal Membership Requirements

Native American Indian Tribal Enrollment

What are tribal membership requirements?
Tribal enrollment criteria are set forth in tribal constitutions, articles of incorporation or ordinances. The criterion varies from tribe to tribe, so uniform membership requirements do not exist.

Two common requirements for membership are lineal decendency from someone named on the tribe’s base roll or relationship to a tribal member who descended from someone named on the base roll. (A “base roll” is the original list of members as designated in a tribal constitution or other document specifying enrollment criteria.) Other conditions such as tribal blood quantum, tribal residency, or continued contact with the tribe are common.

Demansy Justice – (Could this be kin to Dempsey Justice of NC/GA?)

RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: Justice Family Connections

1 John JUSTICE b: 1696 d: 1766
+ Mary HOUGE b: 1683 d: 1778
	2 John JUSTICE b: 1725 d: 1803
	+ Mary SLONE
		3 John JUSTICE b: 1762 d: 13 JAN 1831
		+ Amy NEAL b: 1766 d: 26 JUL
			4 Temperacne JUSTICE b: 1781 d: UNKNOWN
			4 Amos JUSTICE b: 1782 d: UNKNOWN
			4 Didema JUSTICE b: 1784 d: UNKNOWN
			4 Jonathan JUSTICE b: 1786 d: 1868
			+ Hanna DOTY b: 1790 d: UNKNOWN
				5 Malinda JUSTICE b: 1802 d: UNKNOWN
				5 Sarah Leanna JUSTICE b: 1804 d: UNKNOWN
				5 Susanna Francis JUSTICE b: 1806 d: UNKNOWN
				5 Jackson JUSTICE b: 1808 d: UNKNOWN
				5 Lucinda JUSTICE b: 1810 d: UNKNOWN
				5 Allison "Allenson" JUSTICE b: 1812 d: 1900
				+ Joyce "Ivy" HUBBARD b: 1816 d: UNKNOWN
					6 Solomon JUSTICE b: 1836 d: UNKNOWN
					+ Virginia Jane "Jennie" COOK b: UNKNOWN d: UNKNOWN
						7 James Allenson JUSTICE b: 1856 d: UNKNOWN
						7 Sheridan JUSTICE b: 1857 d: UNKNOWN
						<b>7 Demansy "Dee" JUSTICE </b>b: 1858 d: UNKNOWN

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Could this be a distant relative of “our ” mysterious Dempsey Justice [1766-1827] who is seen on records in North Carolina and Georgia ? Demansy is located from these notes, in West Virginia.

I think it may be a strong possibility…what do you think?

– Cathy Abernathy

You might be melungeon if…[may be a repeat post, but is worth it.]

You Might Be Melungeon If . . . by Donald Panther Yates

Your grandfather is buried under a tombstone with a Star of David.
Someone in your family married a Portuguese.
You have a knoblike bump at the base of your brain.
You were born with six fingers on each hand.
All your ancestors came from Tennessee or Kentucky.
Your grandmother was called something like Mahala Jane.
There are six women named Alzina Louisa in your family tree.
You have an uncle named Milton or Furby.
You are related to both Pocahontas and Christopher Columbus.
You make deals only with relatives.
You suffer from something the old folks call Indian Fever.
Your ancestors lived on property straddling two or more states or counties and were sometimes counted on the census in one place, sometimes in another place, without moving.
One line in your family claimed simultaneously to be Scots-Irish, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, French and English.

Alabama Band of Cherokee – Website

Alabama Band of Cherokee(ani kituwahgi) provided by Bravenet.com

Welcome to the Alabama Band of Cherokee web site.

Our office and community center are located about half way between the Old Cherokee settlements of Turkey Town and Wills Town at the head of Little Wills Creek in Dekalb County.

In 1838-39 most of the Cherokee Nation were rounded up and forced to relocate to Oklahoma. This tragic removal came to be known as the Trail of Tears. But…not all were forced to remove. Many who were married to white settlers were exempt and allowed to stay. Others took shelter with sympathetic white neighbors. It is rumored that some Cherokee claimed to be dutch or (black dutch) in order to escape the removal.

The Alabama Band of Cherokee are the descendants of those who stayed in Alabama.

The goals of the Alabama Band of Cherokee are to provide a gathering place for all Cherokee descendants in Northeast Alabama and to promote our heritage.

If you are who you say you are this may be where you belong.

No Mail, No Phones Ringing

No mail today…no phones ringing. Just a fairly quiet day — so what if it’s Labor Day? We had our cookout day before yesterday; and the smoked-meat has been a delight…don’t you wish you ahd some?

There has also been several hour of non-stop music — yesterday/last night while I sat watching YouTube music videos, and sat weaving on friendship bracelets.

Oh, there have been a few chores completed:

Laundry. Dishes. Sorting newspapers. Cleaning my workroom/office. Feeding the cats.

But for the most part, the biggest difference this week than last? Is the cooler temperatures, and being able to get things done (indoors and out).

Reminiscing…
Yes, that’s the word for my mood this “long” weekend.

This could be from reading old newspapers, while listinging to even older songs playing on my computer. Either way, I have some tales rattling around in my head that may get online, very soon!

Possible topics include:
1) How I got Enrolled in College.
2) How many strings does it take to reach from the 1990’s until 2009?
3) Dreams: Past and Present.
4) Too Many Kinfolks?
5) Family Stories: Animal Tales That should be enough tips for stories, for now. More to add here soon.

– CAA

South Carolina – Colonists Timeline

Kagay Photos

Per comments on Victoria Proctor’s “South Carolina Ship’s Lists” web page ~

“Colonization began in 1670 with the settlement of about 150 people at Albemarle Point, on the west bank of the Ashley River – across from modern day Charleston. The fortified settlement was named Charles Town. In the early days (1600′s), established English colonists on Barbadoes were lured by the Lords Proprietor to emigrate to Carolina. By 1680 the colony’s population was about 1000 and growing. In that year (1680), French Huguenots came, followed by English Dissenters and Scots. In the 1700′s, many sailed directly from the Old World to the Carolinas, encouraged to immigrate to the Province through promises of free land (example: Bounty Act of the General Assembly passed 25 July 1761). Many others, however, migrated overland into South Carolina from other colonies – particularly from North Carolina and Virginia, both before and after the Revolutionary War.”

Origin of Names – Example

Where do names originate from?

A quick example off the ‘top of my head’ –

FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT

Franklin = has a Middle English origin, meaning “Free landowner”.

Delano = de la Noye:[is of Old French origin][meanings: Of the night|Alder grove.]

* Respelling of French De la Noye, habitational name, with the preposition de, for someone from any of various places called La Noue or La Noë.

Roosevelt = [Dutch origin] meaning, from the ‘rose field’ [or field of roses]:

* An Anglicized version of the Dutch surname VAN ROSEVELT, meaning “of the rose field.”

From reading this you can see that Franklin D. Roosevelt had a varied genealogy — English, French, and Dutch (or German).

Also, from the readings I have been doing about various European Protestant groups, Scottish Crypto-Jews, Sephardic Jews, and French Huguenot surnames. Many of whom were ‘forced’ to leave Europe because of the differing religious or political views.

He could/can have very well had genetic/ancestral “ties” to many of these cultural/genetic groups.

I do know that he is a very distant cousin on my tree — plus he is related to many of the other (previous) presidents of the United States; either by blood or by marriage.

Just a quick note of what you can find out about historical figures (you did not already know) by doing extended family tree research, and surname origins.

More later.

– Cathy Ann Abernathy

weavercat@gmail.com

Who Were The Huguenots?

The National Huguenot Society – Who Were the Huguenots?

History
The Huguenots were French Protestants most of whom eventually came to follow the teachings of John Calvin, and who, due to religious persecution, were forced to flee France to other countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Some remained, practicing their Faith in secret.

The Protestant Reformation began by Martin Luther in Germany about 1517, spread rapidly in France, especially among those having grievances against the established order of government. As Protestantism grew and developed in France it generally abandoned the Lutheran form, and took the shape of Calvinism. The new “Reformed religion” practiced by many members of the French nobility and social middle-class, based on a belief in salvation through individual faith without the need for the intercession of a church hierarchy and on the belief in an individual’s right to interpret scriptures for themselves, placed these French Protestants in direct theological conflict with both the Catholic Church and the King of France in the theocratic system which prevailed at that time. Followers of this new Protestantism were soon accused of heresy against the Catholic government and the established religion of France, and a General Edict urging extermination of these heretics (Huguenots) was issued in 1536. Nevertheless, Protestantism continued to spread and grow, and about 1555 the first Huguenot church was founded in a home in Paris based upon the teachings of John Calvin. The number and influence of the French Reformers (Huguenots) continued to increase after this event, leading to an escalation in hostility and conflict between the Catholic Church/State and the Huguenots. Finally, in 1562, some 1200 Huguenots were slain at Vassey, France, thus igniting the French Wars of Religion which would devastate France for the next thirty-five years.

Lecture Notes about French Huguenots in America

http://www.genealogyforum.com/gfaol/resource/Huguenot/hug0001.txt

Life’s Weaving – Pickard Family – How We Got To America.

Pickard Family

“How we got to America”

By: Katie Johnston

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Grandparents of our William Henry and bro. John/Johannes Pickard:

How in the world did the Pickard family get to America?

Bartholomew PICKERT [PICKARD] Bartholomew was a soldier and emigrant to the colony of New York. He was born at Leicestershire, Leicester, England, and baptized in St. Martin’s, September 18, 1676. His parents were Bartholomew and Dorothy Dorothe-PICKARD.

In 1697, Bartholomew joined His Majesty’s Army and shipped out of Leicester, England with three companies of troops consisting of two hundred men to New York. They were deployed to protect the Northern Frontier from raids by the French and their Indian allies.

He was transferred to Schenectady near the end of 1698. It was here that he met and married a Dutch girl, Eechje [Eva] CLAES on November 12, 1698.

Eechje (Eva) CLAES had been born near Schenectady about 1680. Her father may have been Nicholas Claes. They were members of the (Quaker) Reformed Church of Schenectady County, New York.

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