| Subject: Re: TRYING TO FIND THE CHEROKEE CONNECTION HELP!!! |
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cindi williams
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Date Posted: 15:26:23 10/05/04 Tue
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In reply to:
Kathie - administrator
's message, "Re: TRYING TO FIND THE CHEROKEE CONNECTION HELP!!!" on 10:22:10 10/03/04 Sun
>The indexes at genealogy.com and seriously difficult
>to use because the administrators there did not make
>them flexible enough to include soundexes of names and
>to search by first names and other keywords. Every
>time I use them I murmur about them. So, I subscribe
>to ancestry.com (it was actually my first choice) so
>that I can have access to all the census indexes. But
>I use ancestry most often because of the flexibility
>of its search engine. When I have to look in 1900 and
>1910 (which ancestry has not yet finished indexing),
>honestly, I groan.
>
>I often use the "Find the name on a page of the
>census" feature in genealogy to scan for the name I
>need. At the bottom of the list of hits, also,
>there's a little search engine wherein you can write
>the first name of the person you are seeking which
>will take you to the given name in a long list such as
>Baker, Johnson and other more common names.
>
>Having said all this against genealogy.com, I must
>add, to be fair, that I love their census images more
>than those of ancestry.com because, somehow, they have
>removed the background color of the old paper which
>shows on ancestry.com as gray (which uses a lot of
>printer toner, over time).
>
>Names on the Eastern and Western Cherokee rolls
>represent only about 1/3 to 1/2 of all those who were
>of Cherokee blood. Estimates vary but judging from
>the large numbers of persons in VA, NC, SC, GA, AL,
>MS, TN, MO, AR, KS, TX and KY who are now seeking
>information about their ancestors, those who were
>"incarcerated" in the Indian Territory and those who
>remained in the East and now form the tribe in western
>NC are only a portion.
>
>Many new, smaller Cherokee tribes are now forming in
>various parts of the country and clamoring to gain
>Federal recognition. They will often accept your
>genealogy and sign you up but I caution you to be very
>careful. Some of them rather aggressively seek
>donations. I have the impression that some are formed
>by individuals who want to be supported by these
>donations; others are being formed by honest
>individuals truly interested in establishing accurate
>base rolls.
Kathy,
I found the parents of Lottie!!! John A. Baker b.9/1853 a stone mason born in Vir. and Sarah E. (Tressel) Baker 6/1857 in Ohio. Does this help. There are John Baker's on rolls but how do I find if they are mine? Cindi
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