looking for gg grandparents who son is Leroy Blackford. date 1800's should be?

Question

Looking for parents of my great grandfather Leroy Blackford and early that possible go back to the 1600 or earlier trying to see if they were of one of the Indian tribes here in the US.

Answer 1

A good place to start your research is by using the free search tool at: https://familysearch.org/search

You can plug in whatever information you have as to Locations: Timeframes; Name/ of spouse/parents etc.

An Example of such a search is below.

https://familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3Aleroy~%20%2Bsurname%3Ablackford~%20%2Bbirth_place%3Aus~%20%2Bbirth_year%3A1870-1903~