Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

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• Looking for info on Francis Marion Cochran from Karen Young. 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto today at 4:41PM

  I am looking for any info pertaining to my great grandfather Francis Marion Cochran. He was married to Mary Jane Capps. Weekly County Tenn. If any one has any kind of info please let me know. We are trying to see if they have an Indian Roll Number. We have…

• Knowing My Family Background from Jalin Ware. 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto today at 4:59AM

  Hey my name is Jalin Ware, I really don’t know what to say. I want to know where I come from ,and who my Indian ancestors are. I always realized that there was a part of me bigger then myself ,and I just want to know more about where my…

• Help with registration from Christina. 3 comments, most recently from rayson allen today at 3:45AM

  I found my great-grandmother’s name on the rolls, but her “type” is MCR, which I read means “Mississipi Choctaw Rejected” or something like that. What does this mean and how will it affect my ability to become a member?

• Information on Bertha Selby? Birthdate: July 21st, 1887 from Samantha. 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto yesterday at 3:55AM

  Good afternoon- Do you have information on a Bertha Selby Salvins Renfro (I believe Selby to be her maiden name and Salvins and Renfro to be her married names since she wed twice) Bertha is my great great grandmother and it’s said that she was Choctaw/ Chickasaw. Her birthday would…

• Finding out all the imformation is alot,what do all of you think about DNA testing? from Kachina. 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto yesterday at 3:16AM

  Just wanting to cover my whole family geneealogy.

• Please Help from BillysBrat. 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on February 3

  My husband was adopted at 5, he was always told he was Cherokee. We have found his Birth family and I have been doing genealogy and found his great grandmother Lived on Choctaw nation in 1900. And HER great grandmother lived Chickasaw Nation in Michagan. What do I do now…

• Hezekiah Autrey from Amber. 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on February 3

  I found an enrollment card # M 1158 …what does NR mean under the children?

• Help!!! Looking for long lost family members! from Ashley Aldape. 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on February 2

  My family has been trying to prove our heritage for years and keep hitting walls. First off My Father was born Steven Bradley Farve 1957, I’m told he was half Choctaw. His mother was Thelma L Farve born in 1938 her father was Andrew Farve born in 1909. Now we…

• lastname change: philips to phillip... from kathleen phillip-rodriguez. 6 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on January 30

  my grand father was born Dwight Edmond Phillip DOB Sept. 19 1923 i believe he was born in Muskogee OK, his brother is Thomas Clark Phillip Sr. who was married to a beautiful woman named Mavis. my father is Dwight E. Phillip Jr., from what i hear he has a…

• Mary Edna Luttrell from Barbara. 6 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on January 30

  Looking for information on her descendants. She was married to George W. Higgs. Birth Feb. 1858 in Tennessee, Death 15 March 1935. There are Luttrells listed on the Dawes Roll. Would also like help in intrepreting the Roll. Thank you.

• Georg Robert Curnutt from Georg Curnutt. 4 comments, most recently from Georg Curnutt on January 30

  I was always told that my fathers Grandmother was full Choctaw. And my fathers Grandfather was a French man last named Carnot who fled France during a Revolution, made it to the Mississippi River by ship. And somewhere along the way to Missouri (Lake of the Ozarks area) took up…

• Charles Robert Anglin from deborah fassbinder (ANGLIN)(ELLIOTT)(LONG) on January 29

  Charles Robert Anglin is my Uncle, he is one of 9 children, does anyone have any memories of him in Chickasaw Nation Oklahoma Territory, He does show enrollment on the Final Dawes.

• william e bohannon jr. from jaybirdc. 3 comments, most recently from Frank Williams on January 29

  william e bohannon jr is listed on the treaty of the dancing rabbit as 1/2 indian. his mother is listed as unknow choctaw woman. does anyone have anything on this family. he would have been my grandfather 4×. thank you jaybirdc

• Minnie Mathis from psycleck. 4 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on January 26

  I am trying to find information about my great grandmother. Her name was Minnie Mathis. Married name would be Stone. I think she was born around 1888 in either southern Oklahoma or northern Texas. I have been told she was full blood Choctaw and would like to find her roll…

• Choctaw registry. from Mikesj73. 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on January 26

  I have always been told my greatgrandwother was 1/2 Indian. I recently starting doing geneaology research so I decided to look and see what I could find for her. Her name was Katie Belle Stanley (maiden name) b. 1891. Her parents were George W. Stanley b. abt 1857 and Fannie…

• Addie Bates 1893 - 9/21/1964 from Edward "Eddie" Bonner. 3 comments, most recently from Robbie Sutlive on January 26

  I’m searching for any information about Addie Bates who married Coleman Jasper Hardin (1867 – 1940) in Arkansas, to become Addie Hardin, and later moved to Texas where she died (Brazoria County, Texas). I’ve also heard the name “Georgia” tossed around, so I’m unsure if she was also known as…

• Snow in Mississippi from Niles K. Dodd. 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on January 26

  My father once told me his mother and his mothers mother were both Choctaw. Although my father and some of his sisters have features i might associate with the indigeneous population, i believed that claim was as reliable as his telling me he used to walk through snow and uphill…

• desperatly seeking info on g-grandmother from donn griffith. 4 comments, most recently from Barbara on January 26

  i am trying to find anything about my g-grandmother. full blood chocktaw, name of mary jane spence. she passed on in 1959. all i have is a pic. any info would be great

• GARLAND family LOTS of questions! from Shelly. 3 comments, most recently from Barbara on January 26

  Ok, so I have done extensive genealogy research and I keep hitting the SAME WALL. I have traced my roots back to a point that has woven 3 Choctaw bloodlines into my heritage. The first is Phoebe Barbera Peck, daughter of Mary Peck married Samuel Garland in Claiborne, TN on…

• Black Dutch? from Dee Taylor. 8 comments, most recently from Barbara on January 26

  My mother said we were Black Dutch. She and her sisters and one brother were born and raised in Oklahoma. I have read that the name Black Dutch was made up by many Native Americans during a time when their families suffered from persecution and the frequent uprooting of their…