Judy, I've noticed in the Ancestry.com description of info included for each census year, they do *not* mention the inclusion of persons of Indian descent not living on reservations starting with the 1860 census, as stated in THE SOURCE A Guidebook of American Genealogy. Ancestry has no race search options on the 1860 census and only "colored or white" options on the 1870 census. For the 1880 they do have all of the options including Indian. I have come across some of the Indian listings in the 1860 & 1870 SC & AL censuses. Do you know if anyone has extracted these from all of the states? Joy ----- Original Message ----- From: Judy To: CherokeeGene-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 9:10 PM Subject: Re: [CherokeeGeneCommunity] Free Look ups Native American research for the 20th century has been buoyed by the inclusion of all Native Americans in the 1900 census. Whether enumerated within the Indian Territory, or enumerated on the many reservations spread out across the United States, Native Americans were finally being counted.

Joy, I don't think anyone has, but, even if someone had extracted everyone marked Indian, it wouldn't reflect all the Indians actually on the census. Some were marked white and some were marked colored, and some Negro, depending on the area in which they lived, the mood or education of the enumerator, and sometimes even their financial status. Carolyne At 2:25 PM -0500 12/2/05, Joy King wrote: >I've noticed in the Ancestry.com description of info included for >each census year, they do *not* mention the inclusion of persons of >Indian descent not living on reservations starting with the 1860 >census, as stated in THE SOURCE A Guidebook of American Genealogy. >Ancestry has no race search options on the 1860 census and only >"colored or white" options on the 1870 census. For the 1880 they do >have all of the options including Indian. > >I have come across some of the Indian listings in the 1860 & 1870 SC >& AL censuses. Do you know if anyone has extracted these from all of >the states? > >Joy

These are not my words, this was sent to me, I tried it and it really does work!! On the 1910 Census when searching for Native Americans enter Last name in the First name box and enter Indian in the Last name box. Such as Keel Indian, this will give you all indexed Native American Keel's. You can also enter in just the First name and use Indian as the Last. Such as George Indian, this would give you all George's who are Native American. Judy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joy King" <joyk@sc.rr.com> To: <CherokeeGene-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 1:25 PM Subject: Re: [CherokeeGeneCommunity] Free Look ups > Judy, > > I've noticed in the Ancestry.com description of info included for each > census year, they do *not* mention the inclusion of persons of Indian > descent not living on reservations starting with the 1860 census, as > stated in THE SOURCE A Guidebook of American Genealogy. Ancestry has no > race search options on the 1860 census and only "colored or white" options > on the 1870 census. For the 1880 they do have all of the options including > Indian. > > I have come across some of the Indian listings in the 1860 & 1870 SC & AL > censuses. Do you know if anyone has extracted these from all of the > states? > > Joy > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Judy > To: CherokeeGene-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 9:10 PM > Subject: Re: [CherokeeGeneCommunity] Free Look ups > > > Native American research for the 20th century has been buoyed by the > inclusion of all Native Americans in the 1900 census. Whether enumerated > within the Indian Territory, or enumerated on the many reservations > spread out across the United States, Native Americans were finally being > counted. > > > ==== CherokeeGene Mailing List ==== > This list is for Genealogy related conversations > Your supporting website http://www.wvi.com/~wb/Cherokee1.html > Please Good manors and no flaming others > For Culture, ridges; bumps; skin tones; or Language lessons Please visit > CHEROKEE-L-request@rootsweb.com > You can also find what you need search the archives > or to get off this list via web site below > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Ethnic-Native/CherokeeGene.html > Listowner = CherokeeGene-admin@rootsweb.com > >