Top 5 Tools for Tracing Your Family History

Top 5 Tools for Tracing Your Family History

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After you’ve gotten started tracing your family heritage, you may find yourself at a standstill. Information from family members can only get you so far; we can’t depend on everyone in our lives to be excellent record... Read more »
What You Should Know About DNA Testing for Family History Research

What You Should Know About DNA Testing for Family History Research

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There are many potential steps involved in researching your genealogy, especially if you’re starting from scratch. Before you do anything else, it’s of course, best to start with your living family members – gather in... Read more »
How Find Your Native American Ancestry

How Find Your Native American Ancestry

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Where Do I Come From? Trace Your Native American Ancestors So many of us seek the answer to that question. We turn to ancestry and genealogy websites to try and trace our history or perform a Google search of surname... Read more »
Blood Quantum Native American: Definition, Facts & Laws

Blood Quantum Native American: Definition, Facts & Laws

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Blood quantum is the measurement of what percentage Native American blood you have. This is often used to determine tribal enrollment. Of course, it isn't always that simple of an answer. In this post, the meaning ... Read more »
What are the Dawes Roll and Miller Rolls – Myths, Misinformation and Motivations

What are the Dawes Roll and Miller Rolls – Myths, Misinformation and Motivations

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I have written several articles on each of these rolls from a genealogical viewpoint. In this article, I will address the two rolls and compare them side by side from a motivational point of view. In other words, w... Read more »
Researching Native American Heritage

Researching Native American Heritage

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Why Research Your Native American Heritage Regardless of whether you are already a Native American enrolled with either a Federal or State Recognized Tribe, this is a wonderful assignment.  There is always new... Read more »
Cherokee of Today

Cherokee of Today

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The Cherokee Tribe of today is made of 3 different groups that all descend from the same common tribe. Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma Citizens reside within 14 counties in  Northeastern Oklahoma, the tribe c... Read more »
What is a Native American? Native American Meaning

What is a Native American? Native American Meaning

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What is Native American?  What an encumbered question.  One might as well ask “Why is the sky blue?” Obviously, a rhetorical question to be profound as one does not need the technical scientific answer to... Read more »
Am I Native American? Native American Ancestry & Genealogy

Am I Native American? Native American Ancestry & Genealogy

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Many people in the US and Canada have at least one Indian ancestral line in their family.  Lots of people grew up hearing the family legend about a family member that was Native American. Proving that legend t... Read more »
Guion Miller Roll of the Eastern Cherokee: 27.Aug.1906 – 18.May.1909

Guion Miller Roll of the Eastern Cherokee: 27.Aug.1906 – 18.May.1909

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One may argue that the Guion Miller Roll is perhaps one of the most important Rolls ever done of the Cherokee Nation in a Genealogical sense.  This roll is more formally referred to as the Eastern Cherokee Emigrant Pa... Read more »
Final Roll of the Cherokee Nation & Freedman

Final Roll of the Cherokee Nation & Freedman

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Today we call this the Dawes Rolls, although it encompasses the original Five Civilized Tribes of the South East (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole). This article is specifically about the Cherokee ... Read more »
Holdout, Doubtful and Reject of the Dawes Rolls

Holdout, Doubtful and Reject of the Dawes Rolls

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Previous articles gave overviews and some tips on navigating through the Dawes Rolls. This article follows up on some information on those common arguments on who is and who is not Cherokee because of three classifica... Read more »

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