My Family Lay are Cherokee i need your help to prove this
my middle name is Lay it goes back many Generations, they arrived in Jamestown i have a Journel dating back to 11-89-1192with the family names, I have been told I am 1/2 cherokee and would like to prove it for my daughter and I.
i understand you have to look on the rolls, we would like to do the application with the eastern band of the chereokee
i always thought we were.my mother looked like it and my grandmother.the Lay family were the earliiest settlers in saybrook conn 1639 Colonel Asa Lay.I have other names also
if somone could help me please it means so much, that would be the fouth generation, I understand Lay may have changed to Leigh on the roLLs for the cherokee.
wa na dohBlessingsJill