How can I find out how much Native American blood I have? I know I have some in both sides of my family.?

No such thing as Native American blood.....as there is nothing inherently Indian about blood. All human blood is 99.96% the exact same. Not that it matters. The Cherokee state that you aren't one of them....because you aren't a citizen. And they don't come in parts, fractions, percentages or other such nonsense.

Everybody and their momma claims to have Cherokee blood. Tina Turner thought for years that she had Cherokee blood because of high cheekbones and light skin and her family would talk about a native American family member then she went on that show on PBS and come to find out she ain't had a lick of native blood in her. But yeah you take a blood test. It won't tell you if you're Cherokee or what tribe though. Look up blood quantum testing.

No. You do not KNOW. You have been told and you believe... and in genealogy, that is breaking the core groundrules. Here is the standard for GENEALOGY... nothing exists/ is fact, unless you have a proven, reliable document. Meaning, a census record showing your ancestor noted as Cherokee. You start research with yourself.. prove your own parents (yes... so you can LEARN the process), then prove their parents, and go back. That is the way you find out who your ancestors are..by name, date, place and other proven facts. Once you have those FACTS and documents in hand.. it is simply a family story..and sadly, one of the most common (and mistaken) ones in genealogy.

Even the families that say "it is proven" are mostly passing on nothing but false myths. Claiming Cherokee blood is the most over-exaggerated thing in American genealogy today. There are more un-enrolled White or Black Americans claiming to be part-Cherokee than their are actual tribal members from all three Cherokee bands. It is demographically impossible, but that is the just the way it is nowadays. The myths are getting out of control. For example, the way to prove this lineage is to do standard genealogy and see where the records take you. This means, for Cherokees or real Native Americans, that they will be showing up in tribal records and be listed as Indians. In most cases, they won't even be US citizens until the the early 1900s (e.g. 1924). But, no. Everyone wants to claim Cherokee blood form mysterious Cherokees that stayed in the east and didn't register. The reality is that only about 16,000 Cherokees were on the Trail of Tears in 1838-9. Out of this group, the MAJORITY went west to Indian Territory. Just under 1000 were the ancestors of the Eastern Band that coalesced around Qualla and only a few hundred individuals stayed in the east and took on US citizenship. From this core group, the Eastern Band formed and now have a population of about 13,000+. The other group that stayed behind was almost uniformly married to non-Cherokees and were mixed-blood themselves. The myth of the fullblood Cherokee hiding out in the rest of the Southeast and showing up as an aberration in a White American family tree is historically, demographically, and actually bogus. Look, there were no Cherokee communities outside of the Qualla Boundary area after 1839. That was after removal. The small number of Cherokees that stayed behind represent a TINY group, and they are found on the Chapman roll in the 1850, the Hester Roll in the 1880s and the Baker Roll of 1924, when the Eastern Band formalized their tribal base roll. If your family is not found on these rolls (or earlier ones), then their Cherokee blood is not "proven." And if Cherokee ancestry comes from those that were removed, they most certainly should be found on tribal rolls and records. They'll also not be US citizens until the early 1900s. There was no "choosing not to" scenario involved. I would bet that if you posted the names of the ancestors that were "proven" by a cousin to be Cherokee/Native American that the genealogy would just show American lineage and there would be no documented proof. What I've noticed is the recycling of the myths. So, they'll get typed up and grafted onto the trees floating around the internet. After a while, with copy and paste culture, all of the trees and pages will have the same claim so it will be accepted as "fact." The only way to prove blood is to find records with this enumeration or a complete lineage that is verified. The reason tribal members happen know their official blood degree is because they can prove it. Just do research. And don't claim anything you can't prove.

There is no such thing as "Native American Blood". There is Native American lineage or ancestral line, but Blood is Blood. DNA testing cannot provide you with the tribe your Ancestors belonged to. The only way to determine your ancestry is through research and documentation. There is no tribal distinction in the Census, but you might find your ancestors on the Dawes Rolls, but your would have to "prove" the relationship and that ancestor would have to have been a tribal member.

best way to determine how much N/A you have is to take a DNA test.

Multiply: Half-blood * Half blood = 0.25