If my father was born in wayne,michigan in 1923,mygreatgrandfather,wayne,mi.\what tribe would i be from?

Question

My grandmother mable lozon was born in wayne, mi. to a woman
from ontario, canada. She was indian. Her father was from
Wayne, Mi. What indian tribe would I basically be. Can I get proof.

Answer 1

Hey Luvbug,

Get the records of birth for your father. That will give information on his parents. If the tribe you refer to is Michigan, or Ontario, that will make a big difference. You can get proof, but the burden of finding it lies in your hands. Birth, Death, Obits, Marriage, Wills, pictures, etc records.

You can also get DNA proof, but that will not serve to tell you who are your ancestors, just generally which tribe(s).

Answer 2

Its not that simple most records were passed down in oral histories and nothing was really tracked on paper not to mention the amount of tribes there are in Ontario. And then again you could be part of a tribe that was in more then one place and that will make a difference. I know because I am an adopted child with 3/4 of my blood being native from Ontario and the rest of me is french and I have the geneology from my birth mothers side of the family back to France in 1554. You maybe better of starting with a geographical location in Ontario rather then just the whole province....narrow it down that should help you start

Answer 3

My wife's family has an oral history that they are part Cherokee. Unfortunately, documenting this is very hard.

First, by definitely, most First Nations people didn't spend much time documenting births and deaths like their Anglo counterparts.

Second, I assume that you are looking for birth records that would exist when Canada was still a British colony, so you're gonna run into a lot of changes in government along the way.

Third, many times such records are destroyed by fires and floods along the way. It was not unusual for court houses to have fires, including at least one set by Americans in the War of 1812.

Fourth, many families downplayed their roots. Please understand that racism wasn't frowned upon until roughly WW2, when Hitler made us all realize how evil it really was. Preferring to live like white people, with all of the advantages, they would've hid any legal evidence of their roots.

You need to contact Ontario genealogists to get your start, and with a little bit of luck, you'll find some evidence that will lead you to the proper tribe.

Answer 4

That doesn't give enough information - sorry.