-----Original Message----- From: Melva Best <melvab@eufaula.lib.ok.us> To: Indian.-Territory-Roots-L@rootsweb.com <Indian.-Territory-Roots-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, June 13, 1999 4:27 PM Subject: Re: Indian Territory marriages > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jerri (Rogers) Chasteen <jerri@cherokee.net> >To: Melva Best <melvab@eufaula.lib.ok.us> >Date: Sunday, June 13, 1999 4:12 PM >Subject: Re: Indian Territory marriages > > >>Melva- >>This is good information. Please post it to the list! >> >>jc >> >>Melva Best wrote: >> >>> A number of the marriage books between 1890 and 1907 are at the Muskogee >>> courthouse, Court Clerk's office. You could check the Muskogee Library >web >>> site to see if they have a copy of the information. I believe those are >for >>> Cherokee Nation and Creek Nation. The Geneological Society in McAlester >has >>> some on microfilm. I was told by a volunteer there that the original >books >>> for their area had been sent to the Historical museum in OKC. The >Poteau >>> courthouse also has some pre-statehood marriage books. Both Poteau and >>> McAlester were in Choctaw Nation. I believe the Geneological Society in >>> Poteau has copied the information from their marriage books and have it >for >>> sale. I have a paper somewhere telling where all the marriage books are >>> located but I have so many papers I don't know where to look for it. >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Jerri (Rogers) Chasteen <jerri@cherokee.net> >>> To: Indian-Territory-Roots-L@rootsweb.com >>> <Indian-Territory-Roots-L@rootsweb.com> >>> Date: Sunday, June 13, 1999 3:11 PM >>> Subject: Re: Indian Territory marriages >>> >>> >June asked >>> >"Would you by chance know where these <marriage> records are presently >>> >housed?". >>> >~~~ >>> >No-- I had heard some from the Muskogee courthouse "disappeared" a few >>> years >>> >ago. I would check with the Oklahoma Historical Society, but I haven't >>> found >>> >them in any one place or publication. I search high and low for Indian >>> >Territory records such as this, and while I don't have time to do >lookups >>> in a >>> >specific area, many times I do use them to answer queries on this mail >>> list. >>> > >>> >Some of the marriages have been extracted, compiled and published, such >as >>> >those from the Vinita Courthouse and those extracted from the Dawes >>> enrollment >>> >applications. Just about a year ago the earliest records used to prepare >>> the >>> >birth and death certificates of Delaware County were published, which >gives >>> the >>> >maiden name of the mother. Early Ottawa County School records have been >>> >published. I have even found some excellent Indian Territory records at >the >>> >Clayton Library in Houston Texas, including some pre statehood birth >>> records >>> >for Sequoyah County. With so many computers in use, I think more and >more >>> >records of I.T. will be published in the near future. >>> > >>> >None of these are on-line that I know of, in case that is the next >>> question. >>> > >>> > >>> >Jerri C. >>> > >>> > > > >