This is the ancestor listed in the genealogies, though chronologically impossible.

There is some question regarding the ancestor of Godwulf, listed as "Geat" in Historia Brittonum.

In the early 1980s, the Cherokee Nation administration amended citizenship rules to require direct descent from an ancestor listed as "Cherokee By Blood" on the Dawes Rolls.

Because of a technicality in modern Mashantucket law that only allows people with ancestors listed on a 1900 and 1910 reservation census to become tribal members, the Simonds are being denied membership in the tribe.

In fact, there are thousands of Cherokees of African heritage (including 1,500 who are also descendants of former slaves) who are nation citizens because they have ancestors listed on our people's base roll.

However, most if not all TCAB descendants did have an ancestor listed on the Guion-Miller or Old settler rolls.

In the meantime, in 2000, the Seminole Nation voted to restrict members to those of one-eighth blood quantum, essentially those with documented descent from ancestors listed as Seminole-Indian on the Dawes Rolls.

To be considered a citizen in the Cherokee Nation, an individual needs a direct Indian ancestor listed on the Dawes Rolls.

But most, if not all, did have an ancestor listed on the Guion Miller or "Old Settler" rolls.

No tribes accept DNA testing to satisfy their differing qualifications for membership, usually based on documented blood quantum or descent from ancestor(s) listed on the Dawes Rolls.