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=== Definition, Value, Search Strategies, and Contents === | === Definition, Value, Search Strategies, and Contents === | ||
'''The Guion Miller Roll''' is a list of Eastern Cherokee | '''The Guion Miller Roll''' is a list of Eastern Cherokee who applied for compensation because of a 1906 lawsuit, and judgment in the tribe's favor in the United States Court of Claims.<br><br> | ||
'''Value.''' This set of records helps genealogists because each application usually has several generations of relatives with their names listed both in the Cherokee language, and as an English translation.<ref name="Hair">Josiah Hair, [http://www.powwows.com/2012/07/25/guion-miller-roll-of-the-eastern-cherokee-27-aug-1906-18-may-1909/ Guion Miller Roll of the Eastern Cherokee: 27.Aug.1906 – 18.May.1909] in ''PowWows.com'' (accessed 9 May 2014).</ref> | '''Value.''' This set of records helps genealogists because each application usually has several generations of relatives with their names listed both in the Cherokee language, and as an English translation.<ref name="Hair">Josiah Hair, [http://www.powwows.com/2012/07/25/guion-miller-roll-of-the-eastern-cherokee-27-aug-1906-18-may-1909/ Guion Miller Roll of the Eastern Cherokee: 27.Aug.1906 – 18.May.1909] in ''PowWows.com'' (accessed 9 May 2014).</ref> | ||
'''Name variations.''' Prior to 1900 only a few full-blooded Cherokees could speak or write English. Some Indian names are difficult to translate into English and could easily have several possible versions. And when lists of names in the Cherokee language were compiled an interpreter often had to help the stenographer figure out how to spell the Indian names. For example, ''the same Cherokee ancestor'' might have his name listed in the applications of different descendants as Ummerteskee, Ahmadeske and Askwater. Moreover, in Cherokee culture it was not unusual for | '''Name variations.''' Prior to 1900 only a few full-blooded Cherokees could speak or write English. Some Indian names are difficult to translate into English and could easily have several possible versions. And when lists of names in the Cherokee language were compiled an interpreter often had to help the stenographer figure out how to spell the Indian names. For example, ''the same Cherokee ancestor'' might have his name listed in the applications of different descendants as Ummerteskee, Ahmadeske and Askwater. Moreover, in Cherokee culture it was not unusual for someone to use three or four different names over the course of their lifetimes (beyond a woman's maiden name). For all these reasons the Guion Miller Roll applications are an important research tool for learning family relationships, name variations, and name changes needed to understand a Cherokee family pedigree.<ref name="Hair" /> | ||
'''Search Strategy Suggestions.''' Cross reference English and Indian names, cross reference name variations, and compare all of a family's applications. Be flexible with spellings, especially in Cherokee. Also, the more children, spouses, brothers, sister, parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts you can find, the more you are likely to learn about the main person you are researching. Investigating slight differences in the applications of siblings can result in treasures of information easily overlooked on just one application.<ref name="Hair" /> | '''Search Strategy Suggestions.''' Cross reference English and Indian names, cross reference name variations, and compare all of a family's applications. Be flexible with spellings, especially in Cherokee. Also, the more children, spouses, brothers, sister, parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts you can find, the more you are likely to learn about the main person you are researching. Investigating slight differences in the applications of siblings can result in treasures of information easily overlooked on just one application.<ref name="Hair" /> | ||
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=== References === | === References === | ||
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[[Category: | [[Category:Indigenous Tribes of North Carolina]][[Category:Indigenous Tribes of the United States]] [[Category:Eastern_Cherokee]] [[Category:Indigenous Tribes of Georgia (state)]] [[Category:Indigenous Tribes of South Carolina]] [[Category:Indigenous Tribes of Tennessee]] [[Category:Indigenous Tribes of Kentucky]] [[Category:Indigenous Tribes of West Virginia]] [[Category:Indigenous Tribes of Virginia]] [[Category:Indigenous Tribes of Alabama]] | ||