The first step in finding and/or connecting to a Native American ancestor is to build your tree back at least well into the 19th century, to a time and a place where Native Americans were living. There was never a Cherokee chief named William McIntosh, however. There was a Creek chief by that name, the son of a white man and a Creek woman. He was killed in 1825. He had three wives and twelve children. At least one of his wives was Cherokee, but she became Creek by her marriage. His descendants were Removed to Indian Territory in the early 1830’s along with most of the Creek Nation.
