Thank you Evelyn We are working up a list of all the miscellaneous files, and they do contain quite a bit of info, but I keep finding to many other things to do. They tell us they are 95% finished with the packets. Hopefully as soon as these are done we will get all the extras put together that we have found in the records. You mentioned about the Creek being so incomplete, we found this when we were working with the databases and trying to get them matched, especially with the minor and newborn, they were the worst. So far I only have the index to the Campbell Abstracts, but you can find many connections with just the index and hopefully soon we will get the abastract online. Judy On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Evelyn S. Leslie <[email protected]> wrote: > Jean, > > Judy White has made it very easy for us. Start reading here: > > http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/dawes.php > > Judy shows us how to find them if they were enrolled, what the criteria was > for being enrolled, what records are available, and to top it all off she > transcribed the whole Campbell's Abstracts to make it even easier. The > Creek Jackets, unfortunately, do not all have everything from the > enrollment > card to all the paperwork and testimonies before the Commission, simply > because the Creeks were the first ones done and the record-keeping was > haphazard. They learned from that mistake so the Choctaw, Chickasaw and > Cherokee jackets all contain more material overall. It seems that the > files that have correspondence, etc. are mostly the rejected applicants > that > came later. This was the case with Leona Starke - she was unable to get > herself, her brother, Sidney Lomax Sizemore, or her daughter, Cora, > enrolled > in the Creek Nation because they did not appear as Indian on the right > census records and other documents required for citizenship in spite of any > amount of testimony on their behalf and the fact that they were shown as > Indian on some census records - just not the required ones. > > Thanks again, Judy! > With warm regards to all, > Evelyn > > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >