DNA match to kit M319398 Mrs John Rice Hooe 4, Tabathia Harriso

@Amanda Aguilar, my interest is to see if there are family ties to the Sarah Lott with the native American tribe known as the Cheraws (several spellings). In my family there a Sarah Lott is mentioned, with some confusion as to her poassible being of Cherokee descent according to family word passed down through the generations in Georgia. The Cheraws were near the PeeDee river and my possible grand mother, many generations back, was married to a John Harris. Her name was Littleberry (old Cheraw). The name Littleberry has been given to several grand fathers, several generations back, last name of Champion. This may have come through a marriage between John Harris and Littleberry's daughters, daughter, whos first name was Pricilla (old Cheraw), that was married to Benjamin Champion. My mothers father, George Champion was related to Benjamin Champion. The Champions, on my mothers fathers side, go way back to the early 1600's, possibly even futher back. This is a very short version of why its possible there are ties to the Lott and Cheraw tribe. I find that the more you dig for answers, sometimes the more questions you get.

Well I could've sworn I had Lott in my tree but now it seems to have disappeared. I do have Little but not Littleberry. I will have to do a little bit more digging and I agree 110% with having more questions the more we dig lol

Amanda Aguilar I learned the hard way a few years ago, as have others...if you have a Native line connected on Geni take a screenshot of it to save because you can't always count on the connections remaining intact here on Geni.

Most folks I know who share Native lines with me have had one or more lines cut on Geni over time. It's best to have a private personal tree like on Ancestry or My Heritage where no one can edit it without you granting them editorial access. Collaborative trees like here on Geni and Family Search don't belong to any individual and others can edit the info and/or cut the connections.

I mainly use Geni as a research tool to trace lines, and I use it for that purpose every day that I do resarech. Once you've added / connected (without creating duplicates) up to 5 generations on as many of your lines as you can, I haven't found the need to keep adding to 'my tree' here on Geni because the 'magic of Geni' kicks in and you find many of your connections already in place on this site. I do my main tree work on Ancestry where no one can make changes to my work. And, as I said, I learned to make screenshots of connections on Geni that I don't want to lose and I add those screenshots to my Ancestry tree.

Michael Boymer the best tip I can give you is to take all your lines out at least 5 generations on as many of them as you can. Just be sure to check to be sure none of them already have existing profiles, because you don't want to create duplicates. In case where any might already exist, just connect the profiles that might be missing between you and those. Many of the genealogy research groups I've been in over the years make the 5-generation rule on Geni a requirement for participation in their group. It's how I ended up here years ago.

Once you done that, what I call 'the magic of Geni' kicks in and you start getting LOTS of connections without having to add more lines. And you can use the push pin tool to check for multiple connections to any profile on Geni. In doing these things, you can then check to see what your connection to the Lott lines, etc. might be. I'm a Lott descendant myself and you can check our connection once you add your 5 generations.

I used to be connected via John Creek Moore to your Priscilla (Moore) Champion here on Geni but I see that Priscilla's lines were edited this past February and I no longer show as a relative but just an inlaw connection. You can check the Revisions tab on any given profile to see the revisions history on the profile, and sometimes additional notes regarding any changes made can be found in the About section. In any case, I wouldn't have known about the changes earlier this year to the Champion / Moore lines if you hadn't mentioned them. Now I need to check all that out to see if I need to make changes to my Ancestry connections.

Much, if not almost all the Native info included in profiles here on Geni came first from Facebook genealogry research groups dedicated to Native research and then added here to make it more publicly accessible to more people who use Geni.

Anyway, all the names you referenced have Geni profiles, but I don't know how / where your Sarah Lott fits in. You'd get more visibility for your questions and likely get more answers in one of the Facebook research groups since more actual research is done in those groups and then the discoveries added here as a sort of depository for all the information. At least that has been mine experience in how it has tended to work with the groups I've been in because some of the research groups are private or even archived at this point, but they want the info to be available. Still, there are plenty of ongoing Native American and non-Native research groups on Facebook, if you aren't already participating in any.

Thank you to both responses.....as time allows I'll continue my adventure on tracing back and forward with the information I've been provided to see if all the dots line up. Any information that may be discovered and shared will be greatly appreciated.