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Document ties Warren kin to Cherokees

Genealogist cites application for marriage license dating from 1894

By Noah Bierman

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 30, 2012

A record unearthed Monday shows that Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has a great-great-great grandmother listed in an 1894 document as a Cherokee, said a genealogist at the New England Historic and Genealogy Society. The latest shred of evidence could validate her claim that she has Native American ancestry, making her 1/32 American Indian, but may not put an end to the questions swirling around the subject.

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