Race/Ethnicity Question. What to do if you come about new but unverifiable information?

[sherpa]

I think you should mark that all your races, including Native American.

@mkb15219 - See my grandfather was adopted by a white family who turned out to be Mormon. These Mormons relocated to the Mormon facility in Mexico where he met my grandmother and they raised my mother in the Mormon religion. Then my mother and my father met, married and joined the compound style church that I had to run away from when I was 17. So almost all the struggles I have had in my life can be traced back to my grandfather being basically kidnapped from his Cherokee reservation and forced to assimilate to a new white culture.

This is a very interesting story and could make for a compelling essay if (and I mean that as a very big “if”) you can write it in a way that it’s about you, the applicant, rather than your grandfather. Maybe about the process of learning the story, becoming curious about your heritage, researching, etc.