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 ===== '''Can’t Find a Name in the Dawes Commission Index?'''  =====
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 :*If your ancestor was a Cherokee by Blood you could also search:
 *Bob Blankenship, ''Dawes Roll “Plus” of Cherokee Nation 1898'', 2nd ed. ([Cherokee, North Carolina]: Cherokee Roots Publication, 1994). {{WorldCat|51086958|item|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. {{FHL|710954|item|disp=FHL Q Book 970.1 B611d}}) Lists name, census card number, Miller roll application number, age, and sex.
 '''Rejected Applications.''' Your ancestor’s application may have been rejected. The Commission eventually rejected 60% of the applications. Only a few rejected applications are in the indexes you just searched.
-Most applications (except Choctaw) are indexed on the Internet at: '''www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/''' .
+If your ancestor does not seem to be on the Internet on in these books, you could write for help from: National Archives, PO Box 6216, Fort Worth, TX 76115.
-*Press the '''yellow''' search button to go to the Basic search.
-*Enter the term '''Enrollment '''and an ancestor’s '''name''' in the'''Keywords '''box, for example, Enrollment and Annie Abbott. '''Press Search'''. If the "hit(s) retrieved" is one or more, print the hit(s) you want and use the underlined Census Card Number to find the application for enrollment in Step 4 below.
-*Some card numbers have letters in front such as D=doubtful, F=Freedman, IW=intermarried white, M=minor, NB=newborn, or R=rejected.
-If your ancestor does not seem to be on the Internet, you could write for help from: National Archives, PO Box 6216, Fort Worth, TX 76115.
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