Gloria wrote: > <snip>I have been searching for information on my Birdsong family from > Southeast OK (I.T.). They moved there originally in the 1860's. Recently I > was told that there are Birdsongs listed on the Choctaw Rolls. Can anyone > tell me > how I might find out this information. The family lived in an area somewhere > surrounding McAlester but maybe not necessarily in Pittsburg County the whole > time. <snip> Gloria- The only Birdsongs who are listed on the Choctaw Rolls are not listed as Choctaw Indians- They are listed as "Freedman"-- being the black descendants of the former slaves of the Choctaw Indians. I have done some research on the Birdsong family who were in the Fulton and Izard Co AR area pretty early. They went back to TN, if I remember correctly. jc