i don’t know about dawes roll 228.
maybe you mean card# 284.
http://www.fritziinc.com/tree/pafn689.htm
Tribe Last First Middle Age Sex Blood Card Roll Misc Type
Choctaw Showers Cecil Calvert 1 M 3/32 M299 228 TYLER M
Choctaw Vincent Lena 20 F 1/2 116 228 PAULS VALLEY BB
Dawes Card Information
tribe last first middle age sex blood card roll misc type
Choctaw Hamilton Carter 0 M 284 P
Choctaw Hamilton Mary E 0 F 284 P
Choctaw Null John 0 M 284 P
Choctaw Null Sarah 0 F 284 P
Choctaw Null Leota 10 F 1/16 284 15195 OAKLAND BB
Choctaw Null Bessie 11 F 1/16 284 15194 OAKLAND BB
Choctaw Null Robert Henry 13 M 1/16 284 15193 OAKLAND BB
Choctaw Null Fannie 17 F 1/16 284 15192 OAKLAND BB
Choctaw Null Elizabeth 45 F IW 284 IW873 OAKLAND BB
Choctaw Null John 52 M 1/8 284 15191 OAKLAND BB
9/6/2012
bb=by blood
p=parent
iw=intermarried white, a general nontribal description
http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/finalroll.php
try finding him here, click on the # in the card column and look at the family members on this card. if they are your family, then you have the right family group.
i don’t think you need a birth certificate for the original enrollees.
btw, there were others who were known as john null also. so make sure it is your john null.
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so you have to have a clear paper trail to the john null who was an original enrollee of the tribe.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/choctaw-msldigital/assets/1378/cdibapplication_original.pdf
http://s3.amazonaws.com/choctaw-msldigital/assets/461/cdibfaq_original.pdf
this gives the phone # for the department that handles membership applications.
it is a two step process, CDIB card and then tribal membership.
i am just a volunteer that likes to empower people to do genealogy. i am not associated with the tribe, am not a member of the tribe.
gl.
suzanne hamlet shatto