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For starters, see my article US Private Companies: Research and Analysis http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/62295. This is by no means a complete list but it provides sources not always thought about that are important to know about for US private companies. Additional sources are listed in an article published in the January/February issue of Online, Checklists for Private Company Research, VOLUME 35 , NUMBER 1 • January/February 2011. http://www.infotoday.com/online/jan11/index.shtml. My issue just arrived yesterday.For US public companies see the SEC (Securities & Exchange Commission) EDGAR database http://sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm. For more powerful search capabilities and archival information, I use Morningstar Document Research, which is subscription based https://secure.10kwizard.com/subscribe.php. SEC filings include US and foreign companies that trade on US stock exchanges.For a free source of traffic see Alexa.com. Subscription sources are also available.Customer lists are often confidential but SEC filings, company websites, press releases, and industry business news and trade sources often reveal major customers. Some companies post case studies and profiles that describe a company's solutions for their customers. These can sometimes be in the form of white papers and are typically at a company's website.Business and trade sources are available on the Web free but also available form major aggregators such as Dialog, Factiva, LexisNexis, generally used by professional searchers such as myself but also used by business and companies for research. HighBeam is a relatively low-cost subscription source with all you can eat for one price and recently launched a business-oriented platform. The lower-cost platform may suffice.Manta, another free company site announced upgrades recently. Hoover's has both subscription and pay-as-you-go options. OneSource and other InfoGroup products are also available for company research.If you don't have access to these sources, many US public libraries provide remote access to an array of databases if you have a library card. Check with your local public library.Company information availability depends on the country and disclosure laws in a country and in some instances, the industry in which it operates. There are more sources for some industries than others. In the US, private companies are not required to disclose financials but deductions about the health of company may be possible based on deeper research in sources I've listed above and in my article posted at Fumsi.Company research is one of my favorite subjects and I give workshops and Webinars on this topic. There are potentially dozens of sources, some free and some fee-based but too many to list here. Sometimes, it's necessary to follow clues and leads and sometimes, primary research is required.

You didn’t mention anything about tribal affiliation and membership in one of the three recognized Cherokee bands.So, this might suggest that this is a lore-based claim. I’ve been doing this sort of research for many years, and I can tell you that even when someone says it’s “proven” or we have documents, it still isn’t accurate. This normally just means that lore is written down and entrenched on erroneous amateur trees. Or, documents are misunderstood or misinterpreted. For example, you’ll often see where ancestors put in Dawes or Guion Miller applications. And then you look at the actual docs and it clearly says “REJECTED.” Yet, the descendants ignore that and go with the original claims their ancestors made in their fraud attempt. Or, sometimes, the ancestors will show up in Indian Territory records, or “Cherokee Land Lottery” documents, or obituary blurbs that state so-and-so “grew up in Cherokee territory.” But, that doesn’t mean they were Cherokee, it means they or their family were taking up lands that were seized from the tribe and opened up to White settlement.Anyway, the short answer is if she was really 1/2 degree, she’d be an enrolled tribal member. And the DNA testing would show some appreciable level of Native ancestry. If it show zero, it is probably correct, and daughter-in-law just has bogus lore of Cherokee blood, and erroneously thinks she has substantial blood for some odd reason.

Lying and deception is part of the human condition, of course. But, quite often habitual liars have a much deeper pathology.Personally, I’ve been fascinated by a certain subset of liars over the years - e.g. folks that come up with odd self-constructed identities. This often involves bald-faced lies. But, it’s more than just being deceptive in isolated fashion, nor is there even a tangible gain in some cases…rather, it accompanies odd ego issues and notions of self-worth.Basically, it’s like a choose your own adventure story, where one becomes a star of their own fabulist tale.This is heavily associated with claims of military service, and “Native American blood” (and this is a sub-category of race-shifting or ethnic usurpation). However, the kind of people that distinctly lie about these things also tend to be rather consistent pathological liars. So, they may lie constantly, about all areas of their lives. It’s just that those two particular claims tend to be the most pronounced and we see a more elaborate web of lies. And there is often a certain narrative that is told over and over again. It is well rehearsed and gets entrenched as pseudo-identity.Here’s a random and fascinating example, I just came across today:Tura Santana.By complete happenstance, this answer had been highlighted in a Quora cinema space.See -I had never heard of her by name, but I like the 1950s Betty Page style, so I clicked on this link to learn more about this actress. Then, I realized she was in a few “exploitation” films in that era, included Faster Pussycat!I could just vaguely place her from that context, but I was still curious to find out more about her background. So, I clicked on her Wikipedia page. And it states she was born in Japan to a Japanese-Filipino father, and a Cheyenne Native American and Scot-Irish mother.Further it stated that soon after the family came to the US they were sent to an internment camp for Japanese - specifically: the Manzanar Internment Camp.However, after years of studying claims of “Native Americans” blood, I tend to see red flags. This is because I have noticed the patterns involved with such claims, and I also know the demographic and historical context immediately.Namely, if this person had a Cheyenne mother born in the early 1900s, this parent would be one of about 1,000 females Cheyenne tribal members alive on planet earth. And these Cheyenne communities were found in just two locations - Oklahoma or Montana. That’s it! Cheyenne females don’t come out from holes in the ground or under rocks. They come from a distinct population, found in just a couple of communities at that time period. And then, to break it down by age bracket, we are maybe talking <200 females (born around turn of 20th century to late teens). It’s a very small and finite population.And further, this scenario is saying that one of these Cheyenne females born in the early 1900s, moved to Japan as a circus worker and married a Japanese fellow in Hokkaido? And then they move to the US just before the outbreak of WWII?Okay, the odds of that let’s say “statistically” unlikely. of course, it’s not necessarily impossible, just exceedingly rare.So, then, I just started to dig around a bit.Her Wiki bio states the following:Satana was born Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi in Hokkaidō, Japan.[2] Her father was a Japanese silent movie actor of Filipino descent, and her mother was a circus performer of Native American (Cheyenne) and Scots-Irish background.[2] After the end of World War II and a stint in the Manzanar internment camp in Lone Pine, California, Tura and her family moved to Chicago.And her New York Time obituary gives the following info:Tura Satana, the actress whose authoritative presence, exotic looks and buxom frame commanded the attention of viewers of Russ Meyer‘s 1965 cult movie “Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!”, died on Friday evening in Reno, Nev.The death was announced by her longtime manager, Siouxzan Perry, who said the cause of death was believed to be heart failure. Ms. Perry said Ms. Satana was 72 when she died, though other sources listed her birth year as 1935.Born Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi in Hokkaido, Japan, to a father of Japanese and Filipino descent and a mother who was Cheyenne Indian and Scots-Irish, Ms. Satana spent part of her childhood in the Manzanar internment camp near Independence, Calif., before her family settled in Chicago. Her Asian background and looks and the fact that she developed early led to frequent harassment and assaults, and she led an itinerant lifestyle, working as an exotic dancer and nude model.Okay, but do you want to know the truth?It’s not as tragically romantic…Her father was just a regular old, boring, run of the mill Filipino dude, from Manila. Mom was a boring old White “oppressor” from old American European stock. There is no Native American ancestry in this line at all. it’s a complete and utter fabrication. She wasn’t born in Japan, and has no Japanese ancestry at all. And she wasn’t sent to an internment camp.Before I highlight the record trail, and you might think this is just incorrect bio data that got picked up by other and assumptions were made…here’s a quick interview with her, reciting all of these fabricated details.The reality is her father moved to the US in the early 30s. And he naturalized in ‘37. You can see his wife is listed as Hortense Miller on this naturalization document:And here is the family unit living in Chicago area in 1940:Tura is listed as age 2. She was born in Illinois.Hortense’s Social Security records give her parents names:And from there, you can find her on the 1930 Census:They were all born in Missouri. Oh yeah, and they were all decidedly White, and non-Cheyenne.You can go back further in time, if you just trace the family tree using normal research methodology. They were White Americans.So, the reality is this woman was half Filipina-half White, born and raised in Chicago. At some point, when she was a teenager (I don’t believe a lot of the details she mentions in her interviews or bios) she moved to southern California. She had no Japanese or Native Americans/Cheyenne background at all.The real question is, why would she claim this? Why lie?Of course, I’ve been following this sort of phenomenon for about two decades, and I can just point out how prevalent this self-constructed narrative is, and some of the reasons for it. But, at the end of the day, I’m still somewhat mystified by it. And I’ll be fascinated by it, till the day I draw my last breath. It’s so odd!!