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SalenaJoyVancleef
My name is Salena Joy Robertson VanCleef. I was born in 1971 in Florence Alabama‚ but have lived my entire life in the Chicagoland area. My adoption was underway before I had even been born. I was adopted by Hattie and Basil Robertson‚ but my mother is actually related to my birth mother. My adopted grandmother was sisters with Ada Helen Minyard. So my adoption was an intra-adoption. My family is primarily French and creek Indian. I have recently found out that I am from the Poarch band of the Creek Tribe. I can trace my roots all the way back to a French pioneer John Minyard. My great‚ great great great grandparents were James and Sally Carpenter. They gave birth to Owen Minyard‚ who was married to charity carpenter and my great great grandparents are Angus Minyard and Hattie Carpenter. I am looking for relatives on either my Minyard side or the Tidwell side. I can trace the Minyard side all the way back to John Minyard who was a French pioneer. But I know very little about my Tidwell background.