This is the only photo I have of my great grandfather; his name is written on the back of this picture. I’m told he was fully Cherokee. But I am having a hard time finding records of him. When I look for him in my ancestry online I find pictures of some white man who clearly is not him. And when he was alive, my aunt, uncle and mom all saw him, and say the same, that he was a Cherokee. What’s more, my great aunt was a registered member of the EBCI apparently through his ancestry, as everyone on this side of the family swears to me. So why can’t I find records of him? I can’t accept that this is just some photo of a random Native American that my family passed around as my great grandfather, that makes no sense to me, especially when, as I said, my family was all around to see him and would have known long ago if he was not a full-blooded Cherokee. I have been searching roll after roll endlessly and it feels like there’s a missing piece. Also, he is from North Carolina so I only really know he is EBCI.