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==== Step 5. Look for Your Ancestor’s Name in the Letter Logs ==== | ==== Step 5. Look for Your Ancestor’s Name in the Letter Logs ==== | ||
'''Find the Dawes Commission Letter | Letter logs list name, address, date of letter, file number, date received, subject, and action taken. Use the letter logs to find clues that hint at relatives, or point to unexpected Dawes files. | ||
'''Find the Dawes Commission Letter Logs' microfilm numbers''' | |||
:'''Find the following entry''' in the ''Family History Library Catalog''. To open this entry in the catalog, {{FHL|480315|item|disp=click here}}. | :'''Find the following entry''' in the ''Family History Library Catalog''. To open this entry in the catalog, {{FHL|480315|item|disp=click here}}. | ||
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:*United States, Bureau of Indian Affairs, ''Index to Letters Received by Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, 1897–1913'', National Archives Microfilm Publications, M1314. (Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 1983). {{WorldCat|42694349|item|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. {{FHL|480315|item|disp=FHL Films 1694814-36}}. | :*United States, Bureau of Indian Affairs, ''Index to Letters Received by Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, 1897–1913'', National Archives Microfilm Publications, M1314. (Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 1983). {{WorldCat|42694349|item|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. {{FHL|480315|item|disp=FHL Films 1694814-36}}. | ||
''' | '''Retrieve the microfilms, find, and photocopy your ancestor’s entries in all places found in several letter logs'''. | ||
:The Dawes Commission letter logs are in order chronologically by 17 sets of years, and then alphabetically by the first two letters of the surname. Look for spill-over names at the end of each letter of the alphabet. | :The Dawes Commission letter logs are in order chronologically by 17 sets of years, and then alphabetically by the first two letters of the surname. Look for spill-over names at the end of each letter of the alphabet. An ancestor’s name probably appears in only a few of them, but take a few minutes to search '''each log''' anyway.<br><br> | ||
[[Image:Dawes Letter Log left.jpg|left|850px|Dawes Letter Log left.jpg]] [[Image:Dawes Letter Log right.jpg|right|850px|Dawes Letter Log right.jpg]] | [[Image:Dawes Letter Log left.jpg|left|850px|Dawes Letter Log left.jpg]] [[Image:Dawes Letter Log right.jpg|right|850px|Dawes Letter Log right.jpg]] | ||