In a message dated 12/2/00 5:03:54 AM Central Standard Time, [email protected], Di wrote: > Since you have her parents names from the SS application, you might want to > try to find them on the 1900 US census of Indian Territory. There is a > Soundex available, and its a good thing! The counties were not yet formed, > and Indian Territory was listed by Nations. > > Di, what if you're ancestors lived in Vian, IT in the late 1890's and 1900's but were not native americans, at least if they were, I don't know about it? I couldn't find a census for 1900 for IT. I guess I didn't look it up correctly or something. I wrote to the Sequoyah County Genealogical Society in Sallisaw some time ago, but haven't heard from them yet, to see if they could find some information on these members of my family. Would settlers from Missouri possibly be on that same census even if they were not of Indian blood? And if so, and that census is listed by Nations, how would I be able to find them? My greatgrandmother's sister, Elizabeth Downing Young and her husband, William F. Young moved to Vian in 1898, their 4 children were born in Missouri before they went to Vian. William lived there previously and may have been of Indian descent, but we have no definite information on that. Elizabeth died there about 1901. Thanks so much for the information. Sue Ivie