Hi Piff -
I contacted both of my cousins. One stopped her genealogical search due to a change in residence. The other cousin shared with me more conversations with her father about his native descent.
But as you said, family stories do not count for much - I hear them all of the time.
IN any case, since the conquest of most of the Thawagila division took place before the formation of the federal government, reconstructing its "rolls" will require an exhauastive search through the records of Fort Cumberland, and an exhaustive search through local land records.
The local history reading room in Cumberland, Maryland was shut down years ago, and I have no idea where its materials may be available.
The Provincial records for Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania are most likely well scattered, from here to London.
The cousin I mentioned above came to a halt in her genealogy work due to the scattering of records cause by the formation of the state of West Virginia and the Civil War.
You can estimate as well as I can the cost for travel, food and lodging.
So let's look for shortcuts to those records -
This search may have been undertaken by a local genealogist who I met at one of my uncles funerals.
But locating him again, if he is still alive, is going to be difficult.
This may also have been attempted by a group which bought some land several years ago, and attempted to re-found the division.
I understand that their attempt came to an end with their passing,
so locating any genealogical materials they may have gathered will be difficult.
That leaves any "local" museums, or historical societies, and the problem of locating them and visiting them.
By the way, the first Adams in the Adams family graveyard at Fort Ashby appears to have arrived there with the second garrison to man it, after its first garrison was annihilated by the Monocans.
Other tasks before me are helping to geologically document fully the destruction of around 95% of the people living in North America around 10,500 BCE - and passing on the different peoples' memories of those events. As I mentioned before, about a billion dollars and many many lives are at stake.
Also, I have located the location of notes from the last properly trained Shawnee "traditional" historian - I need to get to them, assemble them, and pass them on.
Then there is the struggle with the well paid and well funded holocaust deniers of the Ohio Historical Society, and dealing with those confused by them.
Then there is the problem, of creating e-books, so that the traditional histories of many peoples which I have collected are more easily available and readable.
Then there is the problem of the memories of the Andaste and Yazoo, and locating someone to assemble Vine DeLoria's last book.
Where should reconstructing Thawagila (modern spelling) "rolls" fall into this?
I will try to get my DNA results to you - the only other possible candidates for that genetic load except for Thawagili are Conwsay (unlikely), Five Nations (unlikely), and Lenape (unlikely).
While such "rolls" might prove useful to other descendants, it is unlikely that it would stop some people from their slanders;
the only benefit might be if there existed some Shawnee National Ancestry Organization. set up following the establishment of a Shawnee National Organization.
Now as to the net - I generally drink coffee and smoke cigarettes in the morning to get the left side of my body and brain working - typing these brief notes for you is an effort, but I feel it is worth it.
