Recently I've been doing some research on my son's ancestors on his sperm donor's side. Yes, we call him sperm donor (SD for short), as the terms "father" or "dad" really don't apply when it comes to that man. And to provide a little more background information on the SD that will help make sense of something that will be said a few paragraphs down, he was quite delusional that he knew Mafia people, and had the ability to request favors of them.
Anywho, SD has always claimed that he's more than half Cherokee Indian (CI for short), that his grandparents lived on the NC reservation, and he used to spend summers on the reservation with his grandfather. I had never questioned these stories, as while I thought it would be neat for Steven to be linked to the Cherokee nation, it really never mattered a lot to me. I was able to find SD's grandparents' (Steven's great grandparents) information, and nothing past them to try to prove anything one way or another.
I recently joined a Cherokee genealogy Facebook page, and within 24 hours they were able to provide me with a little more information on SD's grandparents, as well as SD's great grandparents. First of all, guess what? WHITE. Second? Born, raised, lived, and died in GEORGIA. No where near a reservation. LOL Again, Steven and I don't really care, it's just funny.
I was reading through the info at the dinner table tonight regarding Steven's great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents, and we discovered that his great-great-grandfather reported on the 1940 census that he had no schooling, was a farmer, and had no earned income. The info did state that he had other sources of income, and I wondered out loud what the other sources of income could be. Without missing a beat, Steven said "the MAFIA!" I. Freaking. Lost. It!
