Marlene; I really don't know either, but I believe the Dawes Rolls consisted, at least in part, of past recorded data. Not knowing which tribal affiliation to go with certainly doesn't make it any easier either. I really don't know much about the tribes but I pick up a little here and a little more elsewhere. One really can get an education from some of the mailing lists. If the tribe had a written language, there would probably be records of the marriage, etc at the tribal headquarters - or whatever it is called. Some of this, if Indian Agents were mixed up in it, probably is recorded at the Bureau of Indian Affairs are their archives and maybe stored in one of the National Archives around the country. Have you contacted the OKBRYAN-L or any other OK Lists about this. They seem to have quite a few people on them that know a lot about this sort of thing. Here's hoping you get lucky quick and get a hot lead. [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marlene Clark" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 8:45 AM Subject: [ALCHEROK] Re: Halls : Jerry wrote: : >Cherokee Co, AL was not formed until 1836. Prior to then it was Cherokee : Indian territory. The information may be in any of the the surrounding : counties (AL & GA) or in a Federal Archive or other Federal Repository. If : the wife/mother was Indian there is a very good possibility that she is : listed in the Dawes Rolls or other Cherokee Indian records. : : : Thanks Jerry, : The daughter, Margaret, is on the Dawes Roll, but she just has her mother as : Susan Hall - not her maiden name. The Dawes Roll was done 1898-1902 and : both Wm. & Susan Hall had been dead long before that. I even thought that : maybe Susan was Cherokee and have written experts on that. I thought she : may have claimed to be Choctaw as they moved into the area where most of the : Indians were Choctaw. : : I do not even have an idea as to what Federal Archive to look into. : : Marlene : :