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From: Janet Zengel Messer <>
Subject: FRENCH surname
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 22:34:56 -0400

My husband recalls stories when he was growing up that he was descended
from Native American ancestors, but no one ever told him who these
ancestors were. I have been working on his family tree for a year or so,
and have been able to trace most of his lines back to English colonial
settlers. However, I have not been able to trace his grandmother's FRENCH
line beyond North Carolina in the late 1700s. Can anyone advise me as to
whether "FRENCH" might have been a Cherokee surname? His family moved from
North Carolina to South Carolina to Georgia and finally to southern Alabama
by the mid-1800s.

Thanks for any help anyone can give me!

Best regards,

Janet Zengel Messer
Micanopy, Florida

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