Are Ancestry and Heritage Quest free sites, or do they charge a yearly fee? dusty ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 2:22 PM Subject: [CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST] "Indian" as a surname on census index ?? > > In a message dated 9/16/2006 10:08:12 A.M. Central Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Between then and the official reformation of the tribe > in 1945 when a constitution and by-laws were approved, those Indians left in > Miss. were considered to be citizens of the US, private land owners (in > truth, mostly squatters and share-croppers). > > > > When using Heritage Quest and Ancestry online census, search the index using > the surname "INDIAN". > I have yet to read an explanation why the enumerator was instructed to do > this, as on at least one of the census years, 1910, those enumerated under the > surname INDIAN had both first and last names on the census pages. > This is the only reference on Ancestry : > "There were separate Indian population schedules for 1910 in which the tribe > and/or band was also recorded" > On Ancestry, there is a little yellow symbol next to the "INDIAN" surnames > on the search results pages, but no explanation as to it's meaning. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >