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-== What Is in This Collection? ==
+== What is in This Collection? ==
 These records cover the years 1898 to 1914. They list the individuals who were accepted as eligible for tribal membership in the "Five Civilized Tribes": Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles. This record set is also known as the "Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes" and make up NARA publication M1301: Applications for Enrollment of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914. The records include 101,000 names from 1898-1914 (primarily from 1899-1906) and provide the enrollee's name, sex, blood degree, and census card number. Index provided by Fold3.com.
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 == What Do I Do Next? ==
 === I Found the Person I Was Looking For, What Now? ===
-*Print or download a copy of the record, or extract the genealogical information needed
 *Use the age to calculate a birth date and to find other records such as birth, christening, census, land and death records
 *Use the Indian census card number to help you locate your ancestor in the Indian census
-*Repeat this process with additional family members found, to find more generations of the family
-*[[Oklahoma Church Records| Church Records]] often were kept years before government records were required and are a good source for finding ancestors before 1900
 === I Can’t Find the Person I’m Looking For, What Now? ===
-*Try viewing the original record to see if there were errors in the transcription of the name, age, residence, etc.  Remember that there may be more than one person in the records with the same name
 *Collect entries for every person who has the same surname.  This list can help you identify possible relations that can be verified by records
-*If you cannot locate your ancestor in the locality in which you believe they lived, then try searching records of a nearby locality in an area search
+*If you cannot locate your ancestor in the locality in which you believe they lived, then try searching records of a nearby locality
-*Standard spelling of names typically did not exist during the periods our ancestors lived in. Try variations of your ancestor’s name while searching the index or browsing through images
+*Standard spelling of names typically did not exist. Try variations of your ancestor’s name while searching the index or browsing through images
-*Remember that sometimes individuals went by [http://usgenweb.org/research/nicknames.html nicknames] or alternated between using first and middle names. Try searching for [http://genealogy.about.com/od/first_names/fl/nickname-given-name-equivalents.htm these names] as well
+*Remember that sometimes individuals went by [http://usgenweb.org/research/nicknames.html nicknames] or alternated between using first and middle names, or even initials
-*Search the indexes and records of [[Oklahoma, United States Genealogy]]
-*Search in the [[Oklahoma Archives and Libraries]]
 == Citing This Collection ==