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PREMIUM OPTIONS AVAILABLE

Whether you need a little help tracing your Cherokee ancestors, or want to apply for tribal citizenship, the Cherokee Registry can help. Our affordable membership options can save you thousands of dollars compared to the cost of hiring a genealogist. These memberships include assistance that can help you discover your true family history, receive benefits you deserve, and preserve your legacy for future generations. We also provide documentation to support eligibility, and signature-ready tribal citizenship applications at no additional charge.

Our research team is experienced in solving genealogical problems. Each is a member of a federally recognized Cherokee tribe. We understand that you may have little more than a family story. We will work with you in a patient and considerate manner to accurately research and carefully document your possible connections utilizing Cherokee resources. These include tribal rolls, census data, slavery records, land allotments, treaty payments, missionary journals, and military records. This process of analyzing these records can solve genealogical mysteries and overcome roadblocks.

FAMILY TRIBAL ENROLLMENT

Whether your ancestors were full blood, freedmen, or intermarried-white, our goal is to help you and your descendants become members of a recognized Cherokee tribe. Sometimes this means discovering hidden truths, comparing testimonies, and confronting misleading information. The sacrifices and hardships endured by your ancestors are not only part of your DNA but a lasting heritage of survival.

CERTIFICATE OF
CHEROKEE HERITAGE

It's important for us to recognize families whose ancestors were a part of the history of the Cherokee people. This includes families whose ancestors were Cherokee by blood, Freedmen, adopted, intermarried, and more. It is a means for descendants to display pride in their heritage. Certificates demonstrate our appreciation for those who seek to reconnect with their roots and contribute to a more comprehensive Cherokee history.

FIND LOST INFORMATION

Sometimes a family's lineage is complicated, or never passed down. Online family trees are often filled with errors and fictitious Native ancestors. This is where both experience and technology can really make a difference.

When utilized by an experienced research team, artificial intelligence systems are adept at locating, processing, and analyzing vast amounts of data to extract crucial details, even from unstructured and handwritten texts. These systems can recognize objects and text in images, and are proficient in identifying variations in the spelling of Cherokee names throughout multiple manuscripts.

SO MUCH MORE!
Immortalize your Cherokee heritage.

There are many people who can document their family history back to Cherokee ancestors, yet are not currently eligible for tribal citizenship. Their ancestors may have been omitted from a particular roll as a result of decisions they made about marriage, where to live, or in the case of Nighthawks, as a matter of conscience. We offer the only recognition process for descendants of individuals who separated from the tribe, or disappeared from later rolls.

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MEMBERSHIP CERTIFICATE

Descendants of the historic Cherokee Nation will receive a Certificate of Cherokee Heritage.

DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL

Provides you with copies of letters, journals, and more from archives, our database, and private collections.

PHOTO RESTORATION

We restore old, torn, cracked, and water damaged, photos free of charge for our members.

DIGITAL FLIP-BOOK

Stories of your family's collective memory can be shared as an impressive interactive text.

FAMILY CONNECTIONS

Ancestors in family stories can be matched by Ai with persons in stories from other members who's ancestor shared that same event.

HISTORICAL TIMELINE

Add your family stories to a private or community timeline where they're matched to Cherokee history.

ENROLLMENT SERVICES

A signature-ready tribal membership application with documentation is prepared and delivered to you.

TIME CAPSULE

Tell your story to future generations the way you want to present it, and at the time of your choosing.

PRESERVE YOUR HERITAGE

Enjoy the full benefits of membership. Choose an option below that meets your needs, from a basic membership with certificate, to research and tribal enrollment assistance from recognized members of the Cherokee Nation. If you want even more, Enduring Legacy is a comprehensive option to immortalize your epic family history!

OUR CHEROKEE STORIES

This is an area of the site where our members can connect to share information, documents, family history, match DNA information, and more. Make new friends and find relatives that you didn't know you had. Most importantly, it's designed to aid you in preserving your legacy for future generations. Collect and share family stories, photos, and video. Add them to a timeline. Link to your family tree. Match DNA results, and more.