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The following site will give you a step-by-step example of what you can find using the Dawes Rolls at the Family History Library. In this example, the name of the person is George Guess and he is from the Cherokee tribe. | The following site will give you a step-by-step example of what you can find using the Dawes Rolls at the Family History Library. In this example, the name of the person is George Guess and he is from the Cherokee tribe. | ||
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To go to this site, click on '''[http://dawesrolls.blogspot.com Dawes Rolls]'''. | To go to this site, click on '''[http://dawesrolls.blogspot.com Dawes Rolls]'''. | ||
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</div> | '''''Enrollment Cards''''' (also called census cards) include residence, roll numbers, names of family members, relationships, ages, sex, degree of Indian, enrollment date, place and number, parents and their enrollment date or plane, spouses, divorces, children or grandchildren. This is one page of information. | ||
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'''''Applications for enrollment'''''include name, address, date of letter, file number, date received, subject, and action taken. Letters are with the applications. Applications are usually the most valuable. Sometimes they can contain a hundred pages. | |||
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<div> | '''''<span style="display: none" id="1283478977421S">Letter Logs </span>'''<span style="display: none" id="1283478977421S">include affidavits, vital records, letters, questionnaires, and decisions mentioning relatives, dates, and places. </span> | ||
'''''Applications for enrollment'' | |||
[[The U.S. Eastern Cherokee or Guion Miller Roll|Eastern Cherokee or Guion Miller Roll]] This is a list of Eastern Cherokees who applied for money awarded in 1905 because of a law suit. | |||
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'''[[The U.S. Eastern Cherokee or Guion Miller Roll|Eastern Cherokee or Guion Miller Roll]] | |||
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