Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

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• Gibson/Hawkins Choctaws? from Carole Shanahan. 5 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on September 30, 2012

  My great grandmother’s name was Sarah Gibson. Her father was born in Kentucky or Tennessee, and his name was Hawkins Gibson. I find the two names intertwined a lot, even in the Choctaw Obits. Her mother’s name was Salley. I have Native American DNA. Would love to find the tribe…

• Looking for information on Alfred H Cypert or his wife Icy O. Clark from Debbie. 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on September 27, 2012

  I was searching the web for Icy Oma Clark and came across the obit section on the Choctaw Nation website. It has her daughter, Sarah E. Taylor, (which would be my grandmother’s sister) listed. I have been searching the Dawes and do not find anyone listed but feel she may…

• Descendant from keaton. 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on September 27, 2012

  Hi, I’m currently an enrolled member with Mvskoke (Creek) Nation. My mother’s father was enrolled with the Absentee Shawnee tribe, my mother, siblings and myself were able to apply for descendant status with the Absentee Shawnee tribe. I received a letter stating I am not an enrolled member but a…

• Information from Sandra Phelps. 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on September 26, 2012

  am trying to trake my liniage to the choctaw. I have researched on Ancestry.com, but do not really understyand what to look for to link my family to the nation. I called The Choctaw Nation and was told to find the CDIB. What? Where is that located? I was also…

• My grandfather's father from jessicalewis2. 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on September 26, 2012

  I am expecting & i’m ue any day now. i want to know more about my ancestery for my family’s peace of mind an so i can tell my daughter about her grandfather. His full name is James Arhur Lewis. My father told me he was registered on the dawson…

• Alice Mineola "Minnie" Provence (Province ?) from Tere. 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on September 26, 2012

  Does anyone know a family of this last name. I’m still looking for information on my maternal grandmother Alice “Minnie” Provence, Grayson, Pharr.

• Lucy Hathcock from Josie Rees. 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on September 25, 2012

  Good afternoon, I’m hoping someone can help me. My great great grandmother was renamed as Lucy Hathcock when the US govt put her in a reservation. However, she never registered her name on the Dawes Rolls. I’m looking to get financial assistance for college and was hoping someone could help…

• looking for surname Blakeley, Swinney, Clark, Thomas, killingsworth from Shauna Blakeley. 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on September 23, 2012

  I am desperately trying to fill in the blanks in my family history. I was told that our family was ashamed of our heritage and the records of our tribal affiliations were destroyed. I am proud of my heritage and I want to find what was lost and teach my…

• SARAH Jane Choate from Yvonne Thompson. 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on September 23, 2012

  I’m trying to enroll in the tribe and have not been able to get information. My cousin was able to get her card and I was wondering if the information she used to obtain her card could be used to enroll. Her father and my mother were siblings, their father…

• Sara Wiggins Meadows from Emily Schubert. 4 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on September 21, 2012

  Hello! Looking for any information on Sara Wiggins Meadows my great great grandmother who may be Choctaw. She married an Irishman named James Meadows and had a daughter Gertrude Williams who had my grandpa Clarence Williams. I am seriously lacking any more details and not sure where to go next….

• Looking for information on my lineage from Gary Aubrey. 6 comments, most recently from Cybil on September 20, 2012

  I am currently registered with the Cherokee Nation, but I have more Choctaw blood in me than Cherokee, but no one in my family has bee succesful with finding much information on our Choctaw side. What I do know is that my great, great, great grand parents Alexander Free and…

• Just getting started from Terrie Weaver Hamilton. 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on September 18, 2012

  Hello, I am just getting started with the indian history information. I have a great grandfather James Melton Woods. Dawes # 23670 p. 382. Census # 2921. I am really not sure what do do next. Will someone please help me?Thanks

• Looking for some marriage/divorce information from Jim Byrd. 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on September 18, 2012

  Minerva Mekatubbee (Dawes #887) was married to William Eddie Forbis (Dawes #5702), and had a daughter Nancy with him in 1889. The marriage didn’t last long, and in 1896 she shows up as being married to Allen Watson (Dawes #887). I looked in the packet for #887 for more details,…

• Looking for information on Harve Counsel Danner from Bryan Johnson. 3 comments, most recently from Media Shockley on September 16, 2012

  I am looking for any information on my great grandfather and his parents. His name was Harve Counsel Danner married to Mary Gertrude Wofford. His parents were John Robert Danner, Mother Etta Rigsbee or Rigsby. They had 7 Children. Do not no all names. My grandmother is Emma Irene, Artie…

• Mingo/Apushim Pushmataha from David L Parrish. 6 comments, most recently from David L Parrish on September 16, 2012

  I just found out that Mingo/Apushim Pushmataha was my 5th great grandfather and I am trying to find all the information about him and any realtives I may still have. I am related to Mary “Running Deer” Shacklefoot as well. Any help would be appriecated. I am trying to make…

• Blood Quantum Tests from Michelle. 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on September 14, 2012

  How would i go about getting information for applying for benefits? my grandmother was half choctaw and half cherokee her mother was choctaw and her fater was cherokee. My father was the from the same descent but would never claim it and it wasn’t on his birth certificate.And was told…

• Red River marriage records from Jim Byrd. 3 comments, most recently from Bianky on September 14, 2012

  Is there any way to search marriage records for Red River county, Texas, for the years 1890-1900? Would I have to go there, or can it be done remotely somehow?

• Looking for "Virginia" from Brownsville area c. 1971 from Jennifer Guzman on September 13, 2012

  My father-in-law was born to a Choctaw woman in August of 1971. She had left her husband when she was pregnant but then died in childbirth. He was given to a family in Mexico as an infant who raised him. The only information he has about his birth was that…

• James Mack Walker from Greg Walker. 5 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on September 13, 2012

  I have recently found out that my great-grandfather was Indian and may have even been the Chief of a Tribe. He was born in 1883 and died in 1919 and his nam was James Mack Walker. I am not sure where to start or even what tribe but my mother…

• Trying to find Choctaws before the Dawes Roll from Jim Byrd. 5 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on September 13, 2012

  I’m looking for some people who were probably around about 1850 or so, but who do not show up on the Dawes (maybe they died and had no offspring). Is there any kind of census or list that can be searched for that time period?