Only two surnames are (at present) associated with the Western Catawba Indian Association -- Bain/Bane and Williamson. These are not...

I have a personal tradition every 7th of December, where I write Dad’s Pearl Harbor story from memory. So each time I write it up from...

Once I discovered I could obtain copies of Nevil's Revolutionary War papers, I wrote off for them to the state of South Carolina. They...

The Waylands, the Melungeons, and a Saponi Band of the Catawba Nation My research has morphed from a study of the Gist’s to the...

Our Ties to the Catawba DNA Test Here is a bar graph I was sent. It shows me mostly Caucasian, but with a little Native and a little...

Do We have Cherokee Blood? Maybe . . . still? I'd like to upgrade that to "probably" because of our Brown's. Other blog entries tell this...

Gist, Guess and Guest of Lawrence County, Alabama Please know there were other Gist's in Lawrence County, Alabama at the same time. But...

Pioneering in Kiowa County On my blog, at http://vancehawkins.blogspot.com/2014/03/bull-chisholm-and-goodnight.html the following comment...

Mapping Nathaniel Gist to Southwestern Virginia I didn't want to place this with my "Melungeon" section because it is partly my family....

Years ago I was in contact with Jerri Chasteen, former Registrar of the Cherokee Nation. We were on good terms. Then she passed away and...

The Waylands, the Melungeons, and a Saponi Band of the Catawba Nation My research has morphed from a study of the Gist’s to the...

Most of my research to date has been to discover our American Indian ancestry. I found what I believe is both Cherokee and Catawban...

Finding John Brown Dad used to tell a little story about a cousin of his named “Euness Hankins”, a daughter of Great Aunt Bea. Dad and...

DNA Results Well, I'm gonna sound really petty. I remember when I was a kid, people occasionally asked dad if he was an Indian. His reply...

Howdy! I'm not online much anymore. Just thought I'd report in. I have said I created my last blog entry -- I know. I also have said...