Can Someone Tell Me What Tribe My Daughter's Great Grandfather would Be From?

Question

My Daughter's father comes from Native Indian Descent. His Great Grandfather was born in 1884 In The Carolina's. On The East Coast. Would Anyone Be Able To Help Us Find Out What Tribe She's From And How We Can Get My Daughter's Tribal Benefits She's Entitled Too? Their Last Name Is "Barfoot?" Does Anyone Know Anything of Beneficial Help For Her? Her Cousin Found Out There Indian Heritage Rather Easily, and Even Took Their Blonde Blue-Eye'd Daughter Who's Native Indian Descent, also To The Dentist On The Reservation, Where Their Tribe Was From. When She Was 5-6 Years Old.They Had No Problems Finding Out There Tribe. I've Been Searching For 13 Years, For My Daughter's Indian Origin, Archives, Reservation, There Tribal Name Any Of It Would Be Ever So Greatly Appreciated, By Us All. But Mainly What Her Tribal Name Would Be? The Closest I Got Was She's Either Muscogee Creek, Or Tuskegee Indian. Maybe even Choctaw, Or even: "Cheyenne". Even My Ex-Husband Would Love To Know What Tribe He's From Originally!! Her Great Grandfather Was Born In The Carolina's, But Moved And Had Her Grandpa In Mobile Alabama, If This Helps At all. Please Anyone Who Knows About Tribes, Where Their Now Reservationed At, How To Find Out How To Get Her Benefits Only Please? Thank-You all For any ImPut, to Help My Daughter, Find Out Her Heritage. 10 Points For Best Answer! Smile!

Answer 1

Lineage (and proof of native ancestry) is not based in a surname. It MUST be proven by a particular person, along with solid documentation going back.  For example... John Barfoot could have married a Cherokee woman in 1840, while his brother James Barfoot married a woman born in France. Desc. will have the same last name, but their ancestry will not be the same, and one "line" would have Native ancestry; the other would not.

Thus... concentrate on the ancestry by name, not tribe.  Once you have documentation, you MAY find reference in records (such as census) that they were (or not).  

It may also be of help to you to understand, that, at least for Cherokee... it is NOT ENOUGH to just prove the ancestry, but a ancestor must have also been on one of the various Native rolls.

If you want to post the name of the grandfather, his approx birth date/place (any other details that you have), someone will probably check the census to help get you going.  

Answer 2

no

Answer 3

Here is a great site to start:

http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/ho...

You must find her ancestor on one of the rolls:

http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/ro...

Then you will have to get a certificate of blood, which is explained in the first website.