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CHECKLIST FOR CHEROKEE RESEARCH
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U.S. Federal Census (at Library locations via Ancestry Library Edition or Heritage Quest Online)
1930 State:   County:   City:  
1920 State:   County:   City:  
1910 State:   County:   City:  

1900

State:/Territory:   County/Nation:  
Records Relating to Enrollment of Eastern Cherokee by Guion Miller
Check an index to determine Roll Number and Application Number.
Guion Miller Roll "Plus" compiled by Bob Blankenship [The Library Center and Ozarks Genealogical Society]; rejected applicants indexed in back of book.
Access Genealogy
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

Records relating to Enrollment of Eastern Cherokee by Guion Miller
(index on microfilm, M685-1; available at The Library Center or Mid-Continent Public Library via interlibrary loan).

Find Application Number in M685 or "Cherokee by Blood."

Records Relating to Enrollment of Eastern Cherokee [M685, Reels 1-12 at The Library Center and Mid-Continent Public Library]
If approved, indicate Roll Number:            

Cherokee by Blood by Jerry Wright Jordan [Vol.1-9 at Ozarks Genealogical Society at The Library Center]
Application No.   Name:   State:  
Order application on microfilm from MCO (via The Library Center) or from National Arichives and Records Administration (NARA) using NATF Form 83.

Eastern Cherokee Applications, 1906-1909 [M1104, Reels 1-348 from Mid-Continent Public Library via interlibrary loan]
Order Microfilm: M1104-          (See NARA American Indians Catalog for reel number).

"Dawes Rolls" (Final Rolls of Citizens and Freemen of the Five Civilized Tribes)

Check an index to determine Dawes Roll Number and Census Card Number.
Index to the Final Rolls [book available at The Library Center and Ozarks Genealogical Society]
Access Genealogy
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
NARA also has a tutorial on Dawes Roll
Dawes Roll "Plus" [The Library Center and Ozarks Genealogical Society]
Tribe:   Roll No:   Census Card No.  
View Final Roll which will also provide Census Card Number.

Final Rolls  [book available at The Library Center and Ozarks Genealogical Society]

Microfilm at The Library Center

Online at Access Genealogy

Online at National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

Order Census Card on microfilm from Mid-Continent Public Library via Local History at the Library Center or view summary on Access Genealogy.

Enrollment Cards for the Five Civilized Tribes [M1186, Reels 1-93 from Mid-Continent Public Library via interlibrary loan]
Order Microfilm:  M1186-          (See NARA American Indians Catalog for reel number).

Study one of these guides for further information:
Cherokee Census (or Enrollment) Records

Cherokee Roots by Bob Blankenship, 2nd ed., c1992. [Indexes to Various Census.]
Vol. 1 – Eastern Cherokee Rolls and Vol. 2 – Western Cherokee Rolls

Eastern   Western

Baker Roll 1924: Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina by Bob Blankenship, c1998.

Cherokee Emigration Rolls, 1817-1835 transcribed by Jack D. Baker, c1977.

1851 Chapman Roll of the Eastern Cherokee transcribed and indexed by Barbara Crumpton, 1986.


1884 Hester Roll of the Eastern Cherokee transcribed and indexed by Barbara J. Crumpton, c1987.

Index to the 1835 Census of the Cherokee Indians East of the Mississippi excerpted from the National Archives Microfilm T-496 by Felldin & Tucker, 1979. [Microfilm available MCO]

Those Who Cried: The 1600: A Record of the Individual Cherokees Listed in the United States Census of the Cherokee National Conducted in 1835 arranged, edited and indexed by James W. Tynber, c1974.

Rolls of the Eastern Cherokee, 1848-1852 [microform]
1848 Mullay Roll, 1851 Siler Roll, supplemental "Act of Congress Roll",
1852 Chapman Roll.

 

Cherokee Nation, 1890 Census: Index of Persons Living Under Permit in the Cooweescoowee and Delaware Districts compiled by Rosalie Wagner; 1986. [Microfilm available from MCO]

Authenticated rolls of 1880: Cherokee Nation – Indian Territory edited and revised by Boyce D. Timmons and Alice Tyner Timmons, 1978. [Microfilm available at LH/TLC and MCO]

The 1851 Drennen Roll of the Cherokee Indians compiled by Charlene Hook.

1880 census of the Cherokee Nation [microform]

Cherokee Old Settlers: the 1896 Old Settler Payroll and the 1851 Old Settler Payroll transcribed and edited by David Keith Hampton, c1993. [Microfilm available MCO]

Cherokee Reservees compiled by David Keith Hampton, c1979.

Cherokee Reserves Letters, 1828-1840 by Dawn C. Stricklin, c2005.

The Delaware & Shawnee Admitted to Cherokee Citizenship and the Related Wyandotte & Moravian Delaware by Toni Jollay Prevost, 1992

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 HISTORIES

The Cherokees by Grace Steele Woodward, c1963.

History of the Cherokee Indians and Their Legends and Folk Lore by Emmet Starr, 1984

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