A maternal cousin who’d long been digging into our tree found my father, also named Roy, and his parents, James and Sarah Jane Williams on the Choctaw Dawes Freedman Rolls., which were compiled ...

Dawes, Henry L (Henry Laurens) 1816-1903 Miller, Guion Notes "The 1898 Dawes roll plus Guion Miller roll informtion for those that were on both rolls. One can look forward in time from 1898 to the ...

FORT WORTH — In the early 1900s, 61-year-old Clement Rogers filled out federal paperwork at a post office in Claremore, Okla., that detailed his ties to the Cherokee Indians.

The rolls to which you referred in your question, officially known as “The Final Rolls of the Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory” but commonly called the ...

Many people claim Cherokee ancestry, but they don't understand the difference between heritage and being a citizen of a federally recognized tribe. The Cherokee Nation is the largest Native ...

For Native American research, the Dawes Rolls are considered one of the best of the limited tools available to a family researcher. Also known as the “Final Rolls,” the official ...