I would not worry about how they show up on the census. It might show a lots of things, mostly the census takes own opinions, mulatto, blackdutch etc: I think in those days the Indian was willing totake any thing as long as it was not Indian. I would go more by the personal research of each individual and who they had a relationship with rather than accept any other means of descriptions. Do not make the decision until you make the research personal and even goto those places in person for research, do not always trust the web, this is second to 10th hand at best . GO there, read the old papers in person - only 1 mill of research is on the web. There are so many things that will never be on it. And less and less all the time as new laws are passed , even those papers you need will be banned to view. ( sooner than you think ) Dan M www.wvi.com/~wb http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Genealogy_Chat ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lindsey Avery" <anathema_studio@hotmail.com> To: <CHEROKEE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 10:17 AM Subject: RE: [Cherokee Circle] Lost > And this is the problem I am having finding my family. my mother died when I > was very young, and almost nothing was known about her family. But I was > always told that she was part Choctaw or Cherokee. So i've been researching > her family, and most surnames I've researched are listed on the dawes roll, > but on the census so far everyone has shown up as white. And to make things > harder, it looks like her family stayed in Mississippi instead of going to > Oklahoma. So if they were Choctaw or Cherokee they probably didn't get > listed on the dawes roll, cause they didn't go to Oklahoma. > *Sigh* >