50 Best Genealogy Websites on the Internet

The 50 Best Genealogy Websites on the Internet according to the Association of Professional Genealogists. That means they are great websites for all genealogists, whether newbie or experienced. Be sure tell your friends. Just use the "pass it on" button below.

Super Tip for finding FREE info at Ancestry.com
Topic: Free Stuff

I've mentioned more than once that there are many free databases at Ancestry.com

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After you click on the graphic, it will take you to the main page of the website. Look below the search boxes for a link that says "List all databases." When you get to the database page, enter the word "FREE" in the keyword field. You'll get a whole list of the free databases. Remember that these change from time to time, so you will want to recheck every so often. Be sure tell your friends. Just use the "pass it on" button below the graphic and they'll get full instructions without you having to retype.

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Mississippi Choctaw 1902 not Enrolled with Dawes
Topic: Census Finds
NARS Box 4, Entry #267 (1902)

"List of Mississippi Choctaw Indians whose names appear on the final approved rolls of Mississippi Choctaw Indians, but who were afterwards found by the Department to be 'not entitled to allotment of land because of failure of continuous bona fide resident in the Choctaw-Chickasaw country as required by Section 42 and 44 of the Act of July 1, 1902 (32 State.
L.,641-651)."


Lucy Anderson, Jack Amos, Jim Allen, Ona Allen, Amy Ah-hah-o-tubbee, John
Anderson, Bobby Anderson, Williamson Alex, Rosie Allen, Newton Allen, Martha
Allen, Sally Ann Allen, Young Allen, John Anderson (Ah-ha-lo-man-tubbee),
Becky Amos, Ida Amos, John Allen (Hatubbee), Josephine Amos, Sealy Ann Amos,
Lizzie Amos, John Amos, Lacy (or Lany) Amos, Waston Amos, Bob Allen, Joe
Allen, Willis Allen, Ollie Anderson, Sealy Allen, Isaac Allen, Allie Allen,
Lacy Allen, John Allen, Rosa Allen, Evylin Allen, Leona Allen, Margaret
Adam, Lloyd Adam, John Adam, Jimmie Adam

Simon Bob, Henry Bob, Jim Baptieste, Watt Ben, Nubbie Ben, Jimson Ben,
Nicholas Ben, Madison Ben, Ida Ben, Jim Ben, Sam Ben, Missouri Ben, Charlie
Ben, Jesse Ben, Peter Ben (Ah-fin-ah-tubbee), John Ben, Robinson Ben, Maggie
Ben, Sidney Ben, Johnson Ben, Emma Ben, Lucy Ben, Sophia Ben, Anderson Ben,
Floyd Ben, Thomas Ben, Lillie Briscoe, John Briscoe, Hamilton Briscoe,
Dannie Billey, Bilsey Billey, Josie Billey, Mary Jane Billey, Nicey Billey,
Williston Billey, Jim Billey, Malissa Billey, Sampson Billey, Ben Billey,
Lona Billey, Wesley Billey, Oscar Billey, Minnie Billey, Fannie Billey,
Maria Billey, Dasie (?) Billey, Davis Billey, Esther Billey, Fillis Billey,
Louise Baptieste, Ozie Ben, Hampton Ben, Islie Ben, Annie Billey, Frances
Billey, Joe Billey, William Billey, Willis Billey, King Brandy, Joe
Baptieste, Malissa Bob, Herman Bob, Watkin Bob, Charles Bob, Summers Billey,
Silman Bell, Sallie Bell, Kah-no-ti-ma-ho-nah Bell, O-mi-chee Bell, Thompson
Bell, Emmon Bell, Susanne Bell, Martha Billey, Jennie Bob, Fannie Billey,
Lisby Bob, Annie Bob, Willie Billey, Alice Bell, Nicholas Bell, Winnie Bell,
Johnson Billey, Lissie Billey, Frank Bob, Hickman Bull, Mandy Bell, Nash
Bell, Johnnie Bell, Edna Bell, Jim Bell, Sweeney Boley, William Billey,
Chunkey Billey (Na-tubbee), Jane Bell, Polly Ann Bell,John Bell, Annie Bell,
Wash Bell, Martha Bell, Lula Bell, Smith Bell, Nicholas Bell, Sam Baptieste,
Celestine Brandy, Martha Billy, Jewett Bell, George Barney, Eve Barney, Lucy
Cooper, Fannie Billey, Mary Baptieste, Louisa Baptieste, Larman Billey,
Welsh Billey, Martha Barney, Jinnie Barney, Leah Bull, George Bull, Sissy
Bull, Bud Bell, Mack Billey, Eliza Boley, Daniel T. Bench, Louana Bonaham

Jack Camel, Elexis Camel, Serena Camel, Kate Camel, Wiley Camel, Sallie
Camel, Sallie Charlas, Bettie Charlas, James Charlas, Minnie Charlas, Louisa
Charlas, Nicholas Charlas, (these are all typed "Charlas", but I'm not sure
they aren't "Charles"), Becky Charlie, Donie Charlie, Nettie Charlie,
Johnson Charlie, Jane Charlie, Fannie Charlie, Leona Charlie, Herman E.
Charlie, Lula Charlie, Salena Charlie, Dave Charlie, Lillie Charlie, William
Charlie, Seaborn Charlie, John H. Charlie, Mary Jane Charlie, Martha Charlie
Simon Charlie, Tinnie Charlie, Eliza Chatham, Mary Etta Cain, Mollie Cleo
Cain, Sam Cain (On-tubbee), Eugene Cain (Chenubbee), Jackson Cain, Anna
Cain (Onah), Wesley Cain (Ok-la-yubbee), John Capers, Louisa Celestine,
Annie Celestine, Joe Celestine, Josephine Celestine, Alma Chitto, John
Chitto, Leona Chitto, Luella Chitto, Rufus Chitto, Pat Chitto, Marinda
Chitto, Laura Chitto, Sissy Chitto, Tom Chitto, Katie Chitto, Minnie
Clemmons, William Cole, Sib Comby, Almon Comby, Giles Cooper, Lucy Cooper,
Jennie Cooper (Imathlehonah), Billy Cooper, Gaston Cooper, George Cooper,
Ray Cotton, Willie Ann Cotton, Sudie Cotton, Isman Cotton, Linnie Cotton,
Hokie Cousin, Madison Cousin, Susan Cousin, Hillin Cun-on-tubbee, Lucy
Cun-on-tubbee, Anderson Cun-on-Tubbee, Sicily Cun-on-tubbee, Clamon
Cun-on-tubbee

Dennis Daniel, Williamson Daniel, Fannie Daniel, Williston Daniel, Jeff
Davis, Culberson Davis, Alice Davis, Anna Davis, Jamison Davis, Thomas
Davis, Eliza Davis, Sulena Davis, Willis Davis, Leanna Davis, Beny Davis,
Tolis Davis, Jimmie Davis, Nowill Davis, Susanna Davis, Malissa Davis, Ollie
Davis, Sallie Davis, Abe Dawson, Joe Denson, Mary Denson, John Denson,
Simpson Dixon, Wilson Dixon, Wallace Dixon, Cainus Dixon, Abbie Dixon, Annie
Dixon, Philip Dixon, Jess Dixon, Joe Dixon, Roches Dixon, Benjamin Dixon,
Millie Dixon, Stewart Dixon, Charlie Draper

Caroline Eben, Amy Elis, Jane Elis, Richmond Elis, Enough Elis, Ann Elis,
Allen Elis, Steve Elis, Josie Elis

Sillman Farmer, Polly Farmer, Susan Farmer, Susan Farmer, Thomas Farmer,
Frank Farmer, Isom Farmer, Mary Farmer (O-ti-hi-mah), Miley Farmer, Malissa
Farmer (Yah-ho-nah), John Farmer, Sallie Farmer, John B. Farmer, Frazine
Favre, Salina Favre, Louisa Favre, Josephine Favre, Roxey Folsom, Hannah M.
Folsom, Lala (or Lela) Forbes, Willias Forbes, Alice Forbes, Wesley Frazier,
Clint S. Frazier, Echols Frazer, Winston Frazer, John Frazer, Sissie Frazer,
Mollie Frazer, Will Marshall Frazer, Sallie Frazier, Ella Frazier, Mary
Frazier (Mah-hin-to-nah), Henson Frazier, Eliza Frazier, John L. Frazier,
Seal Frazier, Nellie Frazier, Ellis (or Ellie) Frazier

Stephen Gibson, Bettie Gibson, Emma Gibson, Jennie Gibson, Rosie Gibson,
Johnson Gibson, Louie Gibson, Sam Gibson, Susanna Gibson, Kima Gibson, Bard
Gibson, Lela Gibson, Robert Gibson, Henry Jackson Gilmore, John Gunsmith,
Eliza Gunsmith (Kah-nah-le-ho-nah)

John (On-ta-hubee) Hall, Logan Hall, Jim Hall, Sidney Hall, Mollie Hall,
Rankfort Hall, Jubal A. Hancock, Charles Rushing Hancock, Jim Haney
(Tik-e-bon-tubbee), Mandy Haney, Tom Ross Haney, Agnes Haney, Alice Haney,
Horace Haney, Oscar Haney, Eunice Harper, Billy Hatstiah, Calway Hatstiah,
Dave Hatstiah, Winston Hattonstie (?), James Hawkins, Ozie Hickman, Davis
Hickman, Susan Hickman, Ida Hickman, Johnikin Hickman, Elin Hickman, Ellis
Hickman, Elsie Hickman, Maggie Hickman, Mary Hickman, Cornelia Hickman,
Jimpson Hickman, Maben Hickman, Watson Hinson, Nancy Hinson, Simon Hinson,
Celeste Hobley, Louis Hobley, Joe Hopson

Thomas Isaac, Malissa Isaac, Dixon Isaac, Mary Isaac (Ho-ki) (Unah-ho-ka),
Lucy Isaac, Jim (Tincha) Isaac Riley Isaac, Bert Isaac, Polly Isaac
(E-la-ho-te-mah), Ollie Isaac, Fannie Isaac, John Isaacs, Phoebe Isom,
Calvin Isom, Wilson Isom, Gibson Isom, Jim Isom, Bessie Isom, Sina Isom,
Ellen Isom, Lela Isom, Martha Isom, Billie J. Isom, Nellie Isom, Mandy Isom,
Jack Isom, Wes Isom, Bill Isom, Emma Isom, Greer Isom, Nancy Isom, Julius
Isom, Albert Isom, Hasey Isom, Lisby Ivey

Tom Jack, Liza Jack, Beaman Jack, Isaac Jack, John Jack, Sealy Jackoway,
Isabell Jacoway, Kelley Jacoway, Summers Jacoway, Mina Jacoway, Simmon
Jackoway, Cawa (?) Jackoway, Cara Jacoway, Rufus Jackoway, Solomon Jackson,
Alice Jackson, Fatie Jackson, Wesley Jackson, Willis Jackson
(Ah-la-pin-tubbee), Chris Jackson, Mary Ann Jackson, Martha Jane Jackson,
Wilie Jackson, Sally Jackson, Lillie Jackson, Alex Jackson, Fannie Jackson,
Eliza Jackson, Martha Jackson, Tom Jackson, Sonie Jackson, Franklin Jackson,
Caway Jackson, Betsie Jackson, Jeff Jackson, Lottie Jackson, Solomon
Jackson, (Me-ha-te-tubbee), Martha Jackson, Gibson Jackson, Teach Jacob,
Martha Jacobs, Becky Jacobs, Mattie James, Albert James, Melton Jeff, Ludie
Jeff, Willis Jefferson, Elsie Jefferson, Martha Jefferson, Edmund Jefferson,
Billie Jefferson, Billie O. Jefferson, Aney Jim, Silma Jim, Dicey (or Bicey)
Jim, Jimmy Jim, Mollie Jim, Bob Jim, Amon Jim, Albert Jim, Arvin Jim, Beth
Jim, Benney Jim, Elijah Savell Jim, Fingley Jim, Chaney Jim, Becky Jim, John
Jim, Fabie Jim, Billy Jim, Tillie Jim, Jack Jim, Rose Jim, Goodman Jim, Jane
Jim, Sannie Jim, Lysander Jim, Logan Jim, Henry Jim, Lissie Jim, Mary Jim,
Willie Jim, Lillie Jim, Albert Jim, Ellen Jim, Ben Jim, Isaac Jim, Susie
Jim, Tom George Jim, Tycoolie Jim, Sallie Jim, Racy Jim, Steve Jim, Ona Jim,
Eliza Jim, Hopkins Jim, Adam Jim, Lee Johnson Jim, Frances Jim, Simmon Jim,
Lina Jim, Fronie Jim, Jim C. Jim, Wilson Jim-Isaac, Martha Jim-Isaac,
William Jim-Isaac, Lee Jim-Isaac, Jackson Jim-Isaac, Will Jimmy, Ike Jimmy,
Bicey Jimmy, Alie Jimmy, Silas Jimmy, Lee Jimmy, Mabel Jimmy, Viola Jimmy,
Hudson Joe, Langley Joe, Emily Joe, Edna Joe, Johnnie Joe, Joshua John,
Billy John, Sallie John, Cornelia John, Betsy John, Sookey John, Sarah John,
Jewel John, Emil John, Jr., Grundy John, Alex John, Rhoda John, Lee John,
Josie Johnnie, Henry Johnson, Jim Jack Johnson, Lucy Johnson, Billie
Johnson, George Johnson, Smith Johnson, Ellen Johnson, Willie Johnson, Lieby
Johnson, Sam Johnson, Nicey Johnson, Samville Johnson, Henry Johnson, Alice
Johnson, Frank Johnson, Seanna Johnson, Sarah Johnson, Nancy Johnson, Johnny
Johnson (E-lu-nah-tubbee), Bessie Johnson, Edgar Johnson, Mollie Johnson,
Miller Johnson, Wesley Johnson, Lula Johnson, Martha Johnson, Coglan Jollis,
Mary Jones, Joe Jones (Oon-te-ah-tubbee), Henry Jones, Clarice Jordan, Bell
Joshua, Lucy Joshua, Martha Joshua, Lucy Joshua, Joe Joshua, Simon Joshua,
Jane Joshua, Emma Joshua, Sam Joshua, Sillian Joshua, Eva Joshua

Eliza Kelley, Mattie Kelley, Lela Kelly, Georgia Kelly, Frank Kelly, William
King, Martha King

Elizabeth Lahbin (Ti-mah-ki), Ben Lahbin, Sina Lee, Isaac Lewis, Elan Lewis,
Booth Lewis, Lucy Lewis, Ola Lewis, Maggie Lewis, Marth Lewis, Annie Lewis,
Jesse Lewis, Hudson Lewis, Susanna Lewis, Alice Lewis, Budmon Lewis, Delsie
Lewis, Lonnie Lewis, Jim Lewis, (Tikabonetubbee), John Wesley Lewis, Jim
Lewis, Fannie Lewis, Sissie Lewis, Lucy Lewis, Lotie Lewis, Mamie Lewis,
Calvin Lewis, Lissa Lewis, Little Lewis, Reuben Lewis, Mary Lewis, Johnnie
Lewis, John Lewis, Moses Lewis, Susan Lewis, Marshall Lewis, Siney Lewis,
John Lish, John Roy Lish, Mattie Lish, Annie Lish, James Londine, Julie
Londine

Jefferson Ma-hat-sti-ah, Sallie Ma-hat-sti-ah, John Mark, Luiza Mark, Lasen
Mark, Louisa Mark, Manuel Martin, Nannie Martin, Tom Martin, Lomie Martin,
Elizabeth Martin, Henry McClosky, George McCormack, Fronie McCormack, Eliza
McMillan, Mollie McMillan, Me-sham-ho-nah, Gibson Mingo, Ida Morris, Mosely
Morris, Dempsey Morris, William Morris, Foreman Morris, Brooksie Morris,
Lillie Morris, Missie Morris, Nan Morris, Bouman Morris, Nellie Morris,
Boston Morris, Watson Morris, Seward Morris, Laura Mose, Eastman Moses,
Lelia Moses, Johnson Moses

John Neal (Im-pun-nubbee), Winnie Nelson, Linn Nelson, Coleman Nelson, Bert
Nelson, Nancy Nickey, Thompson Noah, Clem Noah, Tom Noah, Leona Noah, Fannie
Noah, Annie Nubbee, Betsie Nubbee, Frances Nubbee, Billy Nubbee, Amanda
Nubbee, Smth Nubbee


Lou Outtie, Sidney Outtie (these could be "Cuttie" - they're hard to read)

John Parker, Susan Parker, Emma Paro, Jeff Peter, Mary Peter, Ann Philip,
Mary Philip, Nasey Philip, Simon Philip, Dave Philip, Louisa Philip, Erma
Pis-ah-ton-tamah, Alice Pis-tubbee, George Polk, Tommie Polk, Winston Polk,
Mary Bissie Polk, Lula Polk, Sina Polk, Joseph Polk, Nancy Post-Oak, Isaac
Post-Oak, Sealy Post-Oak, Mattie Primus, Nannie Primus

John Rainbow, Easie Reese, Henry Robison, James Robison, Fronie Robison,
Charlie Robison, Betsy Robison, Mattie Robison, Eliza Rush

Bob Sam, Sophie Sam, Eliza Jane Sam, Eliza Sam, Ephram Sam, Green Sam, Sam
Jones Sam, Dixie Sam, Julia Sam, Oscar Sam, Jimmie Sam, Houston Sam, Mattie
Sam, Raymond Sam, Hugh Summers Sam, Martin Sampson, Williamson Sam, Willis
Sam, Lola Sam, Sallie Sam, Limmie Scott, Ben Scott, Mary Jane Scott,
Marshall Scott, Caroline Seals, Henry Seals, Mary Seals, Lena Semonee (?),
Jim Shepard (Fille-mah-tubbee), Ok-lah-to-nah Shotubbee, Lena (or Lena)
Shotubbee, Adam Shotubbee, Hotemah Shotubbee, Fed Shotubbee,
Im-ah-lak-tubbee Shotubbee, Sam Shotubbee, Lansby Shoemake, Buck Shoemake,
Eben Shoemake, Cooley Shoemaker, Charlie Shumake, Empey Silman, Lizzie
Sills, Oliver Sills, Perry Sills, Fannie Simon, Charley Simmons, Emma
Simpson, John Simpson, Rosie Simpson, Sissie Simpson, Sis-man-ubbee, Mary
Jane Sis-man-nubbee, Amy Smith (A-ha-ka-te-ma), Bicey Smith, Ellen Smith,
John Smith (Ah-no-sah-cubbee), Lissie Smith, Robison Smith, Sealy Smith,
Mamie Smith, George Smith, Rena Smith, Sallie Smith, Sebe Smith, Winnie
Smith, Sweeney Smith, Willis Smith, Ethel Sockey, Sarah Sockey, Seba Sockey,
William Sockey, Irvin Sockey, Bettie Solomon, Missie Solomon, Ellis Solomon,
Ellen Solomon, Willie Solomon, Mamie Solomon, Lillie Solomon, Ishla M.
Solomon, Morris Solomon, Minnie Solomon, Fannie Solomon, Neely Solomon, Nora
Solomon, Acy Stephen, Sealy Stephen, Silman Stephen, Tom Stephen, Tom Steve
(Ook-lo-tubbee), Lucy Steve, Martha Steve, Smith Steve, David Stoliby, John
Stoliby, Martha Stoliby, Missouri Stoliby, Solomon Stoliby, Sallie Stoliby,
Joseph Stout, Malissa Stribling

Long Thomas (Hicatubbee), Vicey Thomas, Ella Thomnas, Minnie Thomas, Becky
Thomas (Ma-con-ti-mah), Jesse Thomas, Hickman Thomas, Lucy Thomas, Jim L.
Thomas, Mary Thomas, Mollie Thomas, Abbie Thomas, George Thomas, Lewis
Thomas, Joshua Thomas, John Thomas, Dan Thomas, Susie Thomas, Wash Thomas,
Wilmon Thomas, Alex Thomas (Ho-tim-o-nubbee), Lillie Thompson, Robert
Thompson, Felix Thompson, Charlie Thompson, Tom Tikeli-Yearby, Murphy
Tillis, Jane Tillis, Houston Tillis, Steve Tillis (Kon-ne-o-tubbee), Alex
Tillis, Adaline Tom, Archie Tom (Li-shubbee), Emaline Tom, Sarah Tom, Elan
Tom, William Tom, Mollie Tom, Polly Tom, Willia (Con-che-ha-tubbee) Tom,
Dave To-ma-ha-tubbee, Emaline Tookolo, Katie Tookolo, George Tookalo, Eban
Tookolo, Elan Tookolo, Ellen Tookolo, Mary Tookolo, Rena Tookolo, Donald
Tonubbee, Becky Tubbee, Caroline Tubbee, Lillie Tubbee, Winnie Tubbee,
Sanders Tubbee, Sampson Tubbee, Jim Tubbee, Tom Tubbee, Sim Tubbee, Liney
Tubbee, John Tubbee, Sallie Tuffamah, Tom Tuffamah, Ellis Tuffamah, Betsy
Tuffamah, Lucy Tuffamah, Willis Tuffamah, Era Tuffamah, Ishaman Tuffamah,
Suella Tuffamah
Billy Vaughn, Lason Vaughn, Sena Vaughn, Cooksey Vaughn, Greer Vaughn

Nancy Wait, Liza Wait, Sawil Wait, Jane Waiter, Gibson Waiter, McNeal
Waiter, Tom Waiter, Minnie Waiter, Comby Wallace, Ben Wallace, Lewis
Wallace, Ikeness Wallace, Lah-nubbee Wallace, Timmons Wallace, Li-oubbee
Wallace, John Weeks, Maeleke Weeks, Jane Weshock, Macey (?) Weshock, Sampson
Weshock, Sallie Weshock, Nona Weshock, John Wesley, Louisa Wesley, Samuel
Wesley, Sidney Wesley, Clay Sharkey Wesley, Ollie West, Mary West, Peter
White, Millie White, Tommy White, Caselus White, Mollie Wickson, Rosie
Wickson, Charley Wiley, Sallie Wilkinson, John William, Jonas William, Janie
William, Fayette William, Linnie William, Elias William, Thomas William,
Victoria William, Susan Williams, Alice Williams, Joanna Williams, Lilly
Williams, Josephine Williams, Melissa Williams, Thomas Williams, Lewis
Williams, William Williams, Lucy Williamson, Mary Williamson, Mack
Williamson, Mollie Williamson, Lingum Williamson, Sistine Williamson,
Malissa Williamson, Ruby Williamson, Ida Williamson, William Williamson,
Nancy Williamson, Adeline Williamson, Eliza Williamson, Bike Williamson,
Allen Willis, Billy Willis, Minerva Willis, Dickson Willis, Julia Willis,
Hugh Willis, Joe Willis, Ely Willis, Katie Willis, Mose W. Willis, Almond
Willis, Bessie Willis, Brantley Willis, Johnson Willis, Adeline Willis, Amy
Willis, Jim Willis, John Willis, Nanoy Willis, Bogle Willis, Rachel Willis,
Louisa Willis, Camblin Willis, Little Willis, Louisa Willis, Peterson
Willis, Robert Willis, Henry Willis, Sookey Willis, Becky Willis, Gus
Willis, Spink Willis, Finis (?) Willis, Harmin Willis, John Willis, Poky
Willis, Clyde Willis, Nannie Willis, Sophia Willis, Leona Willis, Koon (or
Koen) Willis, Cora Willis, Ed Willis, Bill Willis, Mary Willis, Lottie
Willis, Purlan Willis, Illemah Willis, Yarby Willis, James Willis, Alonzo
Wilson, John Wilson, Lonie Wilson, Sam Wilson, Minnie Wilson, Neely Wilson,
Ouna Wilson, Sela Wilson, Wade Wilson, Wilmond Wilson

Mary Yearby, Scott York, John York, Sealy York, Ben York, Bennett York, Alom
York, Evan York, Oliver Young, May Alice Young

National Archives Seeks Public Comments
Topic: News
Dear Genealogist:

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is seeking public comment on its draft Plan for Digitizing Archival Materials for Public Access, 2007-2016. This draft plan outlines our planned strategies to digitize and make more accessible the historic holdings from the National Archives of the United States. A copy of the draft is available at http://www.archives.gov/comment/digitizing-plan.html.

The document is divided into several sections. The first section, INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND, provides information on NARA's mission, our archival holdings, and our past experience with digitization, to give you the context of the draft Plan for Digitizing Archival Materials for Public Access, 2007-2016. Section II, PLAN OVERVIEW, describes our planned goals, activities, and priorities for digitization. Sections III through V provide listings of current digitization activities being carried out by NARA and through partnerships to digitize and make available archival materials. Appendix A contains draft operating principles that we are using as we enter into partnerships and Appendix B references relevant NARA guidance that applies to handling of archival materials being digitized and the technical guidelines for image creation and description. NARA in particularly wants your comments on Sections II, III, V, and Appendix A.

It is important that we receive as much public input on this plan as possible so that our plans adequately reflect the needs of the public.

Comments are due to NARA by: November 9, 2007. Send comments to: Vision@nara.gov or by fax to 301-837-0319

Thank you for taking the time to comment. Please forward this e-mail to any other genealogist that you may know.

Harold McClendon
Mount Vernon Genealogical Society
Publicity Chairman

Cherokee Nation History Course Comes to Texas
Topic: News

The Cherokee Nation History Course is coming to Texas and will be held the last weekend in October and the first weekend in November, 2007, at the University of Texas at Arlington. Registration forms can be found here:


Registration information

NARA Raises Fees October 1
Topic: News

Effective Oct. 1, NARA will charge $75 for a Civil War pension file of up to 100 pages, plus $.65 per additional page (for longer files, staff will contact the requestor with a price quote before filling the order). NARA will charge $50 for pre-Civil War pension files regardless of page count,and $.75 per page to copy other records.

While still a steep increase from the current $37 for a Civil War pension file, these fees are less than the $125 and $60 NARA originally proposed for Civil War and pre-Civil War pensions, respectively. Looks like some protests against the original price increase paid off.

Jurisdictions covered on the Ancestry Indian Census
Absentee Shawnee, Mexican Kickapoo, and Citizen Potawatomi Indians
Absentee Shawnee, Mexican Kickapoo, Citizen Potawatomi Iowa, and Sauk and Fox Indians
Albuquerque School (Pueblo and Navajo Indians)
Apache and Mohave Indians
Apache Indians
Apache Indians of The Camp Verde Reservation
Bad River and Red Cliff Chippewa Indians
Bad River Chippewa Indians
Bad River, Bois Fort, Fond Du Lac, Grand Portage, Lac Courte Oreilles, Lac Du Flambeau Indians
Bad River, Bois Fort, Fond Du Lac, Grand Portage, Lac Courte Oreilles, Lac Du Flambeau, Chippewa
Bad River, Fond Du Lac, Grand Portage, Lac Courte Oreilles, Lac Du Flambeau, Red Cliff Indians
Bay Mills School (Chippewa Indians)
Birch Cooley Agency (Mdewakanton Sioux Indians)
Bishop Agency (Paiute and Other Indians)
Blackfeet Agency
Bloomfield Seminary
Bois Forte, Winnibigoshish, Fond Du Lac, Grand Portage, Leech Lake, and White Oak Point Reservations
Bois Forte, Winnibigoshish, Fond Du Lac, Grand Portage, Leech Lake, Mille Lac, White Oak Point Res
Brule Sioux Indians
California Special
Camp McDowell
Camp Verde (Apache-Mojave Indians)
Campo (Mission Indians)
Canton Asylum
Cantonment (Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians)
Carlisle School
Carson (Chiefly Paiute, Shoshoni, and Washo Indians)
Carter (Potawatomi Indians)
Cayuse, Umatilla, Wallawalla, and Other Indians
Chehalis, Clallam OR Sklallam, Nisqualli, Puyallup, Quinaielt, Skokomish, Squaxon and Other Indians
Chehalis, Makah, Nisqually, Ozette, Quinaielt, Skokomish and Squaxin Island Reservations
Chehalis, Nisqualli, Quileute, Quinaielt, Skokomish, and Squaxin Island Indians
Chehalis, Nisqually, Quinaielt, Skokomish, and Squaxin Island Reservations
Cherokee (North Carolina)
Cheyenne and Arapahoe
Cheyenne River (Sioux Indians)
Chippewa Indians
Choctaw (Mississippi)
Coeur Dalene, Kalispel, and Kutenai Indians
Coeur Dalene, Kalispel, Kutenai, and Nez Perce Indians
Coeur Dalene, Kalispel, Kutenai, and Spokan Indians
Colorado River: (Mohave, Chemehuevi, and Walapai Indians)
Colville and Spokane Reservations
Colville, Spokan, Coeur Dalene, Kalispel, Lake, Nespelem, Okanagon, Nez Perce, Moses, Columbia
Colville, Spokan, Coeur Dalene, Lake, Nespelem, Okanagon, Sanpoil, Nez Perce, Moses, Columbia
Concow, Little Lake, Redwood, Pit River, Nomelaki, Yuki, Wailaki, and Other Indians
Concow, Little Lake, Redwood, Pit River, Potter Valley, Yuki, Wailaki, and Nomelaki Indians
Consolidated Chippewa
Consolidated Ute
Crow
Crow Creek (Lower Yanktonai Sioux and Lower Brule Sioux Indians)
Devils Lake (Sioux and Chippewa Indians)
Devils Lake Sioux Indians
Digger
Eastern Navajo
Eastern Navajo Reservation
Eastern Shawnee, Miami, Ottawa, Peoria, Quapaw, Seneca and Wyandot Indians
Eastern Shawnee, Ottawa, Quapaw, Seneca, and Wyandot Indians
Fallon (Paiute Indians)
Flandreau
Flathead
Flathead, Kutenai, Pend D,Oreille, Kalispel, and Spokan Indians
Flathead: (Flathead, Kutenai, Pend Doreille, and Kalispel Indians)
Fond Du Lac
Fond Du Lac, Grand Portage, Leech Lake, and Nett Lake (Bois Forte) Subagencies
Fort Apache (White Mountain Apache Indians)
Fort Belknap (Grosventre and Assiniboin Indians)
Fort Berthold (Arikara, Grosventre, and Mandan Indians)
Fort Bidwell (Paiute, Pit River, and Digger Indians)
Fort Hall (Shoshoni and Bannock Indians)
Fort Lapwai (Nez Perce Indians)
Fort Lewis (Southern Ute Indians)
Fort McDermitt (Paiute Indians)
Fort Mojave (Mohave and Chemehuevi Indians)
Fort Peck (Sioux and Assiniboin Indians)
Fort Shaw School
Fort Totten (Devils Lake Sioux and Turtle Mountain Chippewa Indians)
Fort Yuma (Yuma and Cocopa(H) Indians)
Goshute (Goshute, Shoshoni, Paiute, Kanosh, and Pahvant Indians)
Grand Portage (Chippewa Indians)
Grand Rapids (Winnebago Indians of Wisconsin)
Grand Ronde
Great Lakes (Chippewa and Potawatomi Indians)
Great Sioux Reservation
Green Bay (Menominee, Oneida, and Stockbridge and Munsee Indians)
Greenville (Digger and Other Indians)
Haskell (Potawatomi, Kickapoo, Iowa, and Sauk and Fox Indians)
Havasupai
Hayward (Lac Courte Oreilles Chippewa Indians)
Hoopa Valley: (Hupa OR Hoopa and Klamath Indians)
Hopi
Hopi and Navajo Indians
Hualapai (Walapai OR Hualapai and Havasupai Indians)
Hualapai OR Walapai Indians--Total Only
Hupa OR Hoopa, Klamath, and Other Indians
Indians of Fort Bidwell, Round Valley, and Tule River Reservations and of Modoc County
Indians of Fort Bidwell, Round Valley, and Tule River Reservations, and Public Domain Indians
Jicarilla
Jicarilla Apache Indians
Kaibab (Paiute and Goshute Indians)
Kansa OR Kaw, Oto and Missouri, Pawnee, and Ponca Indians
Kansa OR Kaw, Oto, Pawnee, Ponca, and Tonkawa Indians
Kaw
Keshena (Menominee Indians)
Keshena: (Menominee and Stockbridge and Munsee Indians)
Kickapoo (Kickapoo, Iowa, and Sauk and Fox of The Missouri Indians; Potawatomi Indians For 1920)
Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Caddo, and Wichita Indians
Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Fort Sill Apache, Wichita, and Caddo Indians
Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Fort Sill Apache, Wichita, Caddo, and Delaware Indians
Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Wichita, and Caddo Indians, and Apache Prisoners of War
Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Wichita, and Caddo Indians, and Apache Prisoners of War OR Fort Sill Apache
Kiowa: (Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Caddo, and Wichita and Affiliated Indians)
Klamath, Modoc, and Yahooskin Band of Paiute OR Snake Indians
Klamath, Modoc, Paiute, and Other Indians
Klamath: (Klamath, Modoc, Paiute OR Snake, and Pit River Indians)
Lac Du Flambeau, Bad River, and Red Cliff Chippewa Indians, and Potawatomi Indians
Lac Du Flambeau, Bad River, Lac Courte Oreilles, Red Cliff Chippewa Indians, and Potawatomi Indians
Lac Du Flambeau: (Chippewa Indians)
Leech Lake (Chippewa Indians)
Lemhi (Shoshoni, Bannock, and Sheepeater Indians)
Leupp (Navajo Indians)
Leupp Reservation
Lovelocks (Paiute Indians)
Lower Brule
MacKinac (Chippewa Indians)
Makah, Ozette, and Hoh Indians
Malki
Menominee and Oneida Indians
Menominee and Stockbridge and Munsee Indians
Menominee and Stockbridge Indians
Mescalero
Mexican Kickapoo (Mexican Kickapoo and Big Jim Band of Absentee Shawnee Indians)
Mission
Mission Tule River
Moapa River (Paiute Indians)
Mohave, Chemehuevi, and Other Indians
Mohave, Chemehuevi, Cocopa, Yuma, and Other Indians
Moqui
Navajo
Navajo Springs
Navajo: (Moqui Pueblo, OR Hopi, and Navajo Indians)
Neah Bay (Makah, Ozette, Quileute, and Hoh Indians)
Nett Lake (Bois Fort Band of Chippewa Indians)
Nevada (Paiute Indians)
New York
Nez Perce
Nisqually and Skokomish (Puyallup, Skokomish, Nisqualli, Squaxon, Sklallam, and Chehalis Indians)
Northern Idaho (Coeur Dalene, Kalispel, Kutenai, and Nez Perce Indians)
Northern Navajo
Northern Navajo Reservation
Northern Pueblo
Oglala Sioux Indians
Omaha
Omaha (Omaha and Winnebago Indians)
Omaha and Winnebago Indians
Oneida
Osage
Osage and Kansa OR Kaw Indians
Osage: (Osage, Kansa OR Kaw, and Quapaw Indians)
Otoe (Oto and Missouri Indians)
Paiute (Paiute, Goshute, and Ute Indians)
Paiute and Ute Indians
Pala (Mission Indians)
Pawnee
Pima, Apache, and Mohave-Apache Indians of The Camp Verde, Fort McDowell, and Salt River Res
Pima, Papago, and Maricopa Indians of The Gila River, AK Chin, and Gila Bend Reservations
Pima, Papago, Maricopa, Mohave-Apache Indians of Ft McDowell, Gila River, Maricopa, Salt River Res
Pima: Pima, Papago, and Maricopa Indians
Pine Ridge
Pine Ridge (Sioux and Cheyenne Indians)
Pipestone (Mdewakanton Sioux Indians)
Ponca (Ponca, Oto and Missouri, Pawnee, and Tonkawa Indians)
Ponca and Santee and Yankton Sioux Indians
Ponca and Tonkawa Indians
Ponca, Tonkawa, and Kansa OR Kaw Indians
Ponca, Tonkawa, and Oto and Missouri Indians
Potawatomi, Iowa, Kickapoo, and Sauk and Fox Indians
Potawatomi, Iowa, Kickapoo, Sauk and Fox of The Missouri, and Chippewa and Christian/Munsee Indians)
Prairie Band of Potawatomi Indians
Pueblo Bonito (Navajo Indians)
Pueblo Day Schools (Pueblo and Navajo Indians)
Pueblo Indians
Pueblo:
Pyramid Lake (Paiute Indians)
Quapaw (Eastern Shawnee, Miami, Modoc, Ottawa, Peoria Quapaw, Seneca, and Wyandot Indians)
Quinaielt (Quinaielt and Other Indians)
Red Cliff (Chippewa Indians)
Red Lake (Red Lake and Pembina Chippewa Indians)
Red Lake and Pembina, Fond Du Lac, Grand Portage, Bois Fort, Vermillion Lake, and Deer Creek Chippe…
Red Moon (Cheyenne Indians)
Reno (Paiute Indians)
Rocky Boy
Rosebud and Yankton Sioux Indians
Rosebud: (Brule and Other Bands of Sioux Indians)
Roseburg (Shasta, Klamath, Pit River, Wintu, and Other Indians) Round Valley
Sac and Fox, Iowa
Salem (Indians of Grande Ronde and Siletz Reservations and Nonreservation Indians)
Salt Lake Special (Paiute Indians)
Salt River (Camp McDowell, Lehi, and Salt River Indians)
San Carlos (Apache, Mohave, and Yuma Indians)
San Jacinto (Mission and Other Indians)
San Juan (Navajo Indians)
San Xavier (Papago Indians)
Santa Fe (Pueblo Indians)
Santee Sioux and Ponca Indians
Santee: (Santee and Flandreau Sioux and Ponca Indians)
Sauk and Fox and Iowa Indians
Sauk and Fox, Iowa, Citizen Potawatomi, Absentee Shawnee and Mexican Kickapoo Indians
Sauk and Fox, Iowa, Citizen Potawatomi, and Absentee Shawnee Indians
Seger (Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians)
Sells (Papago Indians)
Seminole (Florida)
Seneca (Eastern Shawnee, Miami, Modoc, Ottawa, Peoria Quapaw, Seneca, and Wyandot Indians)
Shawnee
Shivwits
Shoshoni (Shoshoni and Arapahoe Indians)
Siletz
Sioux Indians
Sisseton (Sisseton and Wahpeton Sioux Indians)
Skokomish, Clallam, Chehalis, Squaxin Island Nisqualli, Muckleshoot, Quinaielt, Queet, Georgetown
Southern Navajo
Southern Navajo Reservation
Southern Pueblo
Southern Utah (Shivwits OR Shebits and Kaibab Indians)
Southern Ute
Southern Ute (Ute and Jicarilla Apache Indians)
Spokane
Standing Rock (Sioux Indians)
Taholah: (Quinaielt, Chehalis, Nisqualli, Skokomish, and Squaxin Island Indians)
Tomah (Winnebago Indians)
Tongue River (Northern Cheyenne Indians)
Truxton Canon: (Walapai and Havasupai Indians)
Tulalip (Lummi, Muckleshoot, Port Madison, Swinomish, and Tulalip Reservations)
Tule River
Turtle Mountain (Chippewa Indians)
Uintah and Ouray: (Uintah, Uncompahgre, and White River Ute Indians)
Umatilla: (Cayuse, Umatilla, and Wallawalla Indians)
Union (Choctaw Indians Only)
United Pueblos
United Pueblos:
Ute Indians
Ute Mountain (Ute Indians)
Vermillion Lake (Bois Fort Band of Chippewa Indians)
Walker River: (Paiute Indians)
Warm Springs (Warm Springs, John Day, Paiute, Tenino, and Wasco Indians)
Western Navajo Reservation
Western Navajo: (Hopi Indians and Navajo and Paiute Indians For 1929)
Western Shoshone (Shoshoni and Paiute Indians)
White Earth (Chippewa Indians)
White Earth Reservation
White Earth Subagency
Wind River (Shoshoni and Arapahoe Indians) (Supplemental Rolls)
Winnebago
Winnebago and Oneida Indians
Winnebago and Oneida Indians and Stockbridge-Munsee Community For 1938)
Winnibigoshish, Fond Du Lac, Grand Portage, Leech Lake, Bois Forte, and White Oak Point Reservations
Winnibigoshish, Fond Du Lac, Grand Portage, Leech Lake, Bois Forte, Mille Lac, White Oak Point Res
Wittenberg (Winnebago Indians of Wisconsin)
Yakima
Yakima (Yakima and Other Indians)
Yankton
Zuni

      

      

      
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Indian Census Records at Ancestry.com
Topic: Census Finds

As you may know, Ancestry.com
has added a huge collection of Indian Census Records to their library.

The collection starts circa 1880 and continues forward into the early 1900s. I have found multiple errors in transcription of tribes and names, so tried varied search parameters as you look for your family.

Remember! You must be a member of Ancestry.com
in order to access these records. Click on the link below to read about the records. If you are not already a member, they will ask you to sign up.

Native American Census Records on Microfilm
Topic: Census Finds

I have just completed updating my list of microfilm records for American Indians and it now includes, I hope, all available microfilm roll records maintained by the National Archives. The list encompases two pages. The microfilms are available through the National Archives, but most can be rented at various genealogical libraries and Family History Centers. I recommend you print these pages for future reference.

If you note any errors, please let me know. If you find it useful, please tell your friends.

Native American Census Records on Microfilm

Tribal Leaders Directory
Topic: General

The following link will take you to a PDF file (You'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader) that lists all the tribes currently recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, including their contact information. To the best of my knowledge, this is the most current version available.

2006 Tribal Leaders Directory

Burials at Hiawatha Cemetery
Topic: Death Indexes

Below is a list of people buried at the Hiawatha Asylum Hospital in Canton, South Dakota. Their history can be found at

Hiawatha's Diary

I realize the words "insane asylum" offer up connotations that many people don't want to deal with, even in this day and age. But it is patently obvious that the majority of the people who were imprisoned there were NOT insane. Whether you recognize any names on the list or not, I recommend you read the history of the "Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians" which can be found at the above link.

Since Indians were sent there from any reservation, the inmates may have been blood relatives of anyone reading this message.

The more people who know about this particular piece of hidden history, the better. We cannot change the past. But, we cannot ignore it.

Carolyne

The 121 People Buried In The Hiawatha Asylum Cemetery, Canton, South Dakata:

• Long Time Owl Woman
• Juanita Castildo
• Mary Fairchild
• Lucy Reed
• Minnie La Count
• Syvlia Ridley
• Edith Standing Bear
• Chur Ah Tah E Kah
• Ollie House
• Asal Tcher
• Alice Short
• Enos Pah
• Baby Ruth Enas Pah
• Agnes Sloan
• E We Jar
• Kaygwaydahsegaik
• Chee
• Emma Gregory
• Magwon
• Kay Ge Gah Aush Eak
• Kaz Zhe Ah Bow
• Blue Sky
• Louise McIntosh
• Jane Burch
• Dupue
• Maggie Snow
• Lupe Maria
• Lizzie Vipont
• Mary Pierre
• Nancy Chewie
• Ruth Chief on Top
• Mary G. Buck
• Cecile Comes at Night
• Maud Magpie
• Poke Ah Dab Ab
• Sits in It
• Josephine Wells
• A.B. Blair
• Josephine Pajihatakana
• Baby Caldwell
• Sallie Seabott
• Selina Pilon
• Mrs. Twoteeth
• Kayso
• Josephine De Couteau
• Jessie Hallock
• Marie Pancho
• Ede Siroboz
• Kiger
• Mary Bah
• Cynia Houle
• Drag Toes
• Charlie Brown
• Jacob Hayes
• Toby
• Tracha
• Hon Sah Sah Kah
• Big Day
• Fred Takesup
• Peter Greenwood
• Robert Brings Plenty
• Nadesooda
• Taistoto
• James Chief Crow
• Yells at Night
• John Woodruff
• George Bautiste
• Baptiste Gingras
• Lowe War
• Silas Hawk
• Red Cloud
• Howling Wolf
• Frank Starr
• Antone
• Arch Wolf
• Joseph Taylor
• James Crow Lightening
• John Martin
• Red Crow
• James Blackeye
• Abraham Meachern
• Aloysious Moore
• Tom Floodwood
• James Black Bull
• Benito Juan
• Seymour Wauketch
• Anselmo Lucas
• Chico Francisco
• Roy Wolfe
• Matt Smith
• Two Teeth
• Pugay Beel
• Merbert Conley
• Jack Root
• Charlie Clafflin
• John Hall
• Amos Deer
• Ne Bow O Sah
• Thomas Chasing Bear
• Dan Ach Onginiwa
• Joseph Bigname
• Falkkas
• Steve Simons
• James Two Crows
• F.C. Eagle
• Andrew Dancer
• Apolorio Moranda
• Harry Miller
• Herbert Iron
• Fred Collins
• John Coal on FIre
• Joseph D. Marshall
• Willie George
• James Hathorn
• Ira Girstean
• Edward Hedges
• Omudis
• Guy Crow Neck
• John Big
• A. Kennedy

"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain perpetually a child. For what is the worth of a human life unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history? --- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C."

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