Paula, I do agree with what you said: "In earlier times, the blood amount was calculated (guessed) by the person conducting the census. There were no documents or other records that "proved" the amount of Indian blood and individual possessed. " Viewing several different Choctaw siblings on the Dawes Rolls, I see a variance in what was recorded for their degree of "indian blood", and to this date, it has not been disproven that they share the very same mother and father. The same goes for the recording of these siblings children degree of "indian blood". As they are recorded on the Dawes Roll varies, even though each sibling married a non-indian spouse, and therefore the children should all calculate to have the same degree. The Dawes Rolls, Census and any other records are only guides, but sometimes prove to be far from facts. Carri

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