Before Statehood Acceptable Proofs
List
- Delayed Oklahoma Birth Certificate
- Delayed Oklahoma Birth Certificate of a child
- Cherokee Nation Land Allotment
- Dawes Roll number
- Dawes Roll enrollment transcript
- Guion Miller enrollment transcript
- 1890 Indian Territory Census for the Cherokee Nation (census
includes Indians, whites, and blacks.)
- 1900 United States Census
- 1910 United States Census for showing children born in Indian
Territory or Oklahoma over three years old or can prove born before Nov.
16, 1907
- Death Certificate stating place of birth
- Picture of a tombstone showing name and date of death, must include
name and location of cemetery.
- Obituary
- Funeral Records.
- Land records for lots in towns, of improvements on land and sale of
improvements
- Wills
- Probates
- Newspaper stories, adds for sales, advertising for lost animals,
local news items, ext. if it names your ancestor in any way that shows
residency. This can also include stories and pictures from the Vinita
Daily Journal Rodeo additions.
- 1880 U S Census of whites living in Indian Territory.
- 1860 US Census of whites living in Indian Territory
- Letters, diaries and other first hand written narratives
- Oklahoma Indian and Pioneer Papers narratives and Oklahoma Slave
narratives
- Books (such as) Cherokee Indian Families Old and New by George M.
Bell
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