Betty If you want a word of advice you will want to stop looking for books and start looking for primary resources. Books tend to be like a snowball rolling downhill. Anyone who writes a book using everyone else's books as resources only perpetuates the mistakes in that book(s). If you are looking for books please make sure you look at those who's data is backed up with a bibliography that isn't another load of books. Dr. Stanley Hoig's book "The Cherokee's and Their Chiefs" Is one of the better ones but it still has a boo-boo or two in it. If you are looking for generations prior to the Removal you will just about HAVE to look into the primary resources. Bob Blankenship does a good job on the different Cherokee census records in his two books "Cherokee Roots". Look for books with data....not genealogies. Genealogies tend to have many errors...just as Dr. Starr's book does. The very reasonably priced Journal of Cherokee Studies available at www.cherokeemusuem.org is just one of those. At the National ARchives you will find the American State Papers. THose referring to th eCherokee are located at www.rootsweb.com/~tnpolk2 www.appalachainsummit.tripod.com is yet another wonderful resource for primary data. Check out Dan's website for more...and there are others at www.rootsweb.com/~tnmcmin2 behind LINKS Joyce Gaston Reece ----- Original Message ----- From: Bettye Woodhull To: CherokeeGene-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 9:40 PM Subject: [CherokeeGeneCommunity] Out of the Flame Okay, Dan, is this book available? to purchase or to locate at libraries? Who is the author? I am slowly spending many dollars and collecting many books in my attempt to learn my family heritage so can you give me some "advice" or "warning" about the price range? We knew going in on the purchase of Emmett Starr's book, but held great hopes of finding a small piece of information in it about my ancestors. Our trips to photograph any "landsite" that is related to my family lines has been a side trip "on the way to somewhere" so we don't consider that as a growing expense - just a part of discovering America! I also have Cherokee connections on my paternal side that I hope to get started on soon, but I am trying to keep the two lines separated. Bettye ==== 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

Good advice, Joyce. I kind of did it backward. I never really relied on Family Tree's because they too, can be flawed. I started with looking up all the census I could get my hands on, finding the Dawes numbers and ordering their packets from NARA. Based on those and other info I had already dug up, I added to my docs with birth, marriage, CN re-admission, death certificates, military records etc. However, I am blessed by a family fairly easy to find things out about. Many others are not so lucky. Yes, books play a part of solving a puzzle but gathering substantiating evidence to uphold one's research is integral to really solving the puzzle. I, too, have found errors in books, but that only makes me want to write my own all the more. ;) "Joyce G. Reece" <jgreece@earthlink.net> wrote:Betty If you want a word of advice you will want to stop looking for books and start looking for primary resources. Books tend to be like a snowball rolling downhill. Anyone who writes a book using everyone else's books as resources only perpetuates the mistakes in that book(s). If you are looking for books please make sure you look at those who's data is backed up with a bibliography that isn't another load of books. Dr. Stanley Hoig's book "The Cherokee's and Their Chiefs" Is one of the better ones but it still has a boo-boo or two in it. If you are looking for generations prior to the Removal you will just about HAVE to look into the primary resources. Bob Blankenship does a good job on the different Cherokee census records in his two books "Cherokee Roots". Look for books with data....not genealogies. Genealogies tend to have many errors...just as Dr. Starr's book does. The very reasonably priced Journal of Cherokee Studies available at www.cherokeemusuem.org is just one of those. At the National ARchives you will find the American State Papers. THose referring to th eCherokee are located at www.rootsweb.com/~tnpolk2 www.appalachainsummit.tripod.com is yet another wonderful resource for primary data. Check out Dan's website for more...and there are others at www.rootsweb.com/~tnmcmin2 behind LINKS Joyce Gaston Reece ----- Original Message ----- From: Bettye Woodhull To: CherokeeGene-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 9:40 PM Subject: [CherokeeGeneCommunity] Out of the Flame Okay, Dan, is this book available? to purchase or to locate at libraries? Who is the author? I am slowly spending many dollars and collecting many books in my attempt to learn my family heritage so can you give me some "advice" or "warning" about the price range? We knew going in on the purchase of Emmett Starr's book, but held great hopes of finding a small piece of information in it about my ancestors. Our trips to photograph any "landsite" that is related to my family lines has been a side trip "on the way to somewhere" so we don't consider that as a growing expense - just a part of discovering America! I also have Cherokee connections on my paternal side that I hope to get started on soon, but I am trying to keep the two lines separated. Bettye ==== 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 ==== 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 --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page