A good point (all were, actually), and is true all over of state and county boundries. So when looking in county or state records, or for cometaries, etc., with little louck, try neighboring areas that may have once been part of the named region but later was changed. - Richard Margaret Ernest wrote: > > An additional complexity is that Indian Territory at one time included parts > of Arkansas -- the boundaries moved as time progressed. My husband's great > great grandmother was of Cherokee descent, born in Indian Territory when it > included parts of Arkansas. She was never on the Rolls, although she did go > eventually to Oklahoma. > >