Albert I agree with you and I think I know what the problem is. In the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit there's a whole list of farmers Miss and part of Ala(includes Sumter Co.)that got OFF the rolls because the gov't. promised them they could stay in their homelands; they were plantation, slave-holding Indians; I finally found the book and LDS Salt Lake City will do ancestor lookups for you-will e-mail the address, "Choctaw and Chickasaw Early Census Records" compiled by Betty Wiltshire Cox; they are also known as the "Armstrong Rolls" and these are available on microfilm at the Nat'l Archives; then POSSIBLY they are available through AGLL(American Geneological Lending Library) available through your public library. Let me get the address for you for SLC>write: Correspondence c/oFamily History Library 35N.W.Temple St. Salt Lake City Utah 84150 Att.:Dawne Hole. I'm planning on requesting that they put it on microfilm but have to get form from a local LDS Library. I've been trying to get this on Internet but do not see it coming up? frances ----- Original Message ----- From: "Albert E. Willard" <awillard@mindspring.com> To: <ALSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 10:46 PM Subject: Re: [ALSUMTER] Native American Research > Note that no Choctaw information is available. Perhaps those of us with > roots in the Sumpter County area need to press for our turn. > > Al Willard > > > ==== ALSUMTER Mailing List ==== > Everyone has ancestors and it is only a question of going back far enough to find a good one. -- Howard Kenneth Nixon > Sumter County, ALGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~alsumter > Listowner Kristy Williams Sumter@US-Gen.com > >