----- Original Message ----- From: "Debbie Woolf" <woolfpac@prodigy.net> To: <topmomconner@yahoo.com> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 10:44 PM Subject: Re: [CREEK-SOUTHEAST] Edward "Old Ned" Sizemore > Did anyone answer you? > > Many of Edward "Ned" SIZEMORE's descendants applied for Cherokee citizenship > during the Dawes Rolls. The Dawes Roll was the final roll for 5 tribes, > Cherokee, Creek, > Choctaw, Seminole and Chickasaw. There were ALOT of SIZEMOREs that applied > and the cases are pretty well known, NONE of them were accepted. > > Rejections did not mean the family were not necessarily indian, but could > mean several things, > including: > they didn't associate with indians > they were not 'thought' of as indian > they did not live in the right area at the right time to request citizenship > they could not prove they were of native descent > > I have seen Ned Sizemore discussions on the CHerokeeGene list and also on > the Hawkins Co. TN list. You might want to go to rootsweb.com and find > those lists and check in the archives for past notes. Then you might also > want to join those lists and post there as well as here. > > Good luck, > Debbie > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <topmomconner@yahoo.com> > To: <CREEK-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 5:31 AM > Subject: [CREEK-SOUTHEAST] Edward "Old Ned" Sizemore > > > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > > > Surnames: Sizemore > > Classification: Query > > > > Message Board URL: > > > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5R.2ADI/1130 > > > > Message Board Post: > > > > Is there anyone that might know if Edward"Ned" Sizemore from NC.was > American Indian ? I have heard he was,and that he wasn,t.He is in my Family > Line. > > > > > > ==== CREEK-SOUTHEAST Mailing List ==== > > Visit Creek Indian History: > http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/creek/creekhist.htm > > > > ============================== > > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > >