Native American Nations in cooperation with Ancestry and AccessGenealogy is proud to provide our visitors the complete 1900 census FREE until 15 December 2005! This includes both the every name index and all census images. To view this census, you do not need an Ancestry membership, nor do you need to provide your credit card details. All you need to provide is your email address and your name! 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. This provides the researcher a great and mostly unused tool in the search for their Native American ancestors. Finding these Native Americans has gotten a lot easier with Ancestry's recent indexing of the 1900 census. While the index is complete, it's not perfect. The writing of some enumerators was poor, and the quality of some census pages is lacking. While you can search first, be prepared to browse their census images keeping the following tips in mind: Most Indian schedules were added to the end of county listings. For some states however, the Indian schedules were added to the end of the state. A non-Indian MAY be enumerated on the Indian schedule, if they were detached from their family and living with an Indian family. A Native American MAY be enumerated on the general population schedule, if they were detached from their Indian family and living with a white, or black family. For their own personal reasons, many Native Americans failed to claim their heritage during the 1900 census... they ended up enumerated as white or black. As well, some whites and blacks listed themselves as Indian, when they were in fact, not. While the 1900 census in and of itself does not prove or disprove your Native American history, it can add yet one more fact in favor, or not in favor of that claim. The census being opened up to NANations and AccessGenealogy is not limited to just the section for the Native Americans, it is the COMPLETE 1900 census index and images, and all are free... you just need your name and email to login. Good luck! http://www.nanations.com/ To further your Native American research check out AccessGenealogy's extensive Native American rolls, and smaller census listings... http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/ Please feel free to pass the links on to family, friends and other lists. Judy