On his mother’s side, Elvis had some Native American ancestry, specifically Cherokee ancestry. According to the book Elvis and Gladys , his maternal great-great-great grandmother was a Cherokee ...

On his paternal side, Elvis' father, Vernon Presley, was of Irish, German, Scottish and English ancestry. Vernon Presley was a descendant of the Harrison family of Virginia through his mother ...

Elvis Presley's family tree has been all shook up after a historian found one of his Ulster-born ancestors married a Cherokee princess – and suggested that might be the secret behind the king of ...

On his paternal side, Elvis' father, Vernon Presley, was of Irish, German, Scottish and English ancestry. Vernon Presley was a descendant of the Harrison family of Virginia through his mother ...

Elvis Presley on "The Milton Berle Show," June 4, 1956. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) ... According to Ancestry.com, Burdine was born in Mississippi in 1826 and died in 1887.

On his paternal side, Elvis' father, Vernon Presley, was of Irish, German, Scottish and English ancestry. Vernon Presley was a descendant of the Harrison family of Virginia through his mother ...