Jackie Stewart wrote: > I am trying to determine my indian heritage which I believe is Cherokee. My > ggrandmother was Mary Persinger and she was married to Harce Affon Holman > and they lived in Prague Oklahoma around and were listed in the 1920 census. > Mary was from Missouri. Harce Affon Holman is said to be buried in Indianola > OK. I don't know who Mary Persinger's parents are. They may also have lived > in Haskell County (Haskell county, Lincoln county and Pittsburg county in > the early 1900s. They had two daughters and a son in Prague or Indianola, > Mary Elizabeth Holman b. 1908, Vera Viola Holman b. 1909, and Thomas Jack > Holman b. 1912. They supposedly lived on indian allotment land in Prague. > Can anyone check the Dawes records? Jackie, Have you tried http://www.nara.gov/ If you go there, scroll down to 'Genealogy Page' click that, then scroll down to 'Genealogical Data in NAIL' you'll see 'Search Hints...' That will show you how to search the Dawes and then you can go there. Melinda