Moytoy of Tellico - 🌧 💧

I love fictional genealogy! Do you have any source for this besides “auntie said …?” Because I have that in my family too, and you know what it turned out to be? Colonial settlers trying to rip off Cherokee of their land. Have you found those in your tree? If you haven’t, you’re not looking hard enough.

Annber Lynn Collins - please see this article:

https://www.geni.com/projects/Cherokee-Genealogy-and-History/12

“So, will the real Amatoya Moytoy please stand up?”

These are real people from American history, but the family relationships have been fabricated. We don’t know how many relate. The Master Profiles have been worked on as best we can. And as with all MPs, please don’t replicate them on Geni.

If there’s specific ancestor of interest and you don’t see information in the MP “about” and / or attached sources and / or discussions, post a discussion (as you did),

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The record https://www.geni.com/photo/view?album_type=photos_of_me&id=6000000004086139262&photo_id=6000000176900331025&position=0 is from a flawed Ancestry.com collection, “US and International Marriage Records, 1566-1900.” I say “flawed” because it’s based on submitted pedigrees and other “non” records.

But in this case the record is not totally horrible, because “Clan” is a computer shortcut for a name that’s something like “woman of the Wild Potato Clan.” We don’t know what clan Moytoy’s wife or wife belonged to, but she would have been in one, so “Clan” becomes her name.