The Dawes Roll (Final Rolls) is a list of those members of the Five Civilized Tribes who removed to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) during the 1800’s and were living there during the period of 1898-1914. If your Cherokee ancestor was in the East then you should use the Guion Miller Roll taken in 1906, or the Baker Roll taken in 1924. The Baker Roll is considered the final roll for the Eastern Cherokee Tribe.
If your ancestor was not living in Indian Territory during 1898-1914, they will not be listed on the Dawes Roll!!
Only those Indians who RECEIVED LAND under the provisions of the Dawes Act are listed. It also lists those Freedmen who received land allotments as provided for in the Dawes Act. These pages can be searched to discover the enrollee’s name, age, sex, blood degree, type, census card number and roll number. Check the headings in each column. Type denotes whether the record is from a Dawes card.
Dawes is a list of those members of the Five Civilized Tribes who removed to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) during the 1800’s and were living there during the above dates.
Search the Dawes Roll
The search below will allow you to find your ancestor in the Dawes Rolls. A partial search is allowed in the name fields, card and roll require exact matches. I suggest you start with first and last name, and then when you find a match you want to further investigate, click on the card link and that will show you the remaining family members who appear on the card with the individual.
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| Tribe | Last | First | Middle | Age | Sex | Blood | Card # | Roll # | Misc | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cherokee | Holt | Pearl | F | FM315 | P | |||||
| Cherokee | Holt | Pearl | 2 | F | 1/16 | 305 | 917 | Westville | BB |
The following letter guide was furnished by the National Archives. These letters can appear both on Type and Card number.
| A – Adopted AD- Adopted Delaware BB – By Blood D – Doubtful or denied F – Freedman FD – Freedman, doubtful or denied FM – Freedman, minor | FRR – Freedman, rejected IW – Intermarried White MCR – Mississippi Choctaw Rejected NR – Not Registered, Non Resident O – Owner – at one time a slave OS – Old Series* Old Settler P – Parent |
* Old Series – At one time this person had another card, and the information was transferred to a new card.
Trying to find my great grandma Laura shaw who parents are Cherokee and left the Midwest on the wagon train for Puyallup washington and built shaw road also had great uncle named Frank shaw who kept the original wagon…
Laura Shaw’s parents were Chris and Mary Shaw. Not sure where these stories about Cherokee originated, but they were not Cherokee or Native at all. Chris Shaw was born in København, Denmark in 1856 or 1857. Mary Blow Shaw was born in South Dakota in 1869. Her ancestors lived in the midwest for a couple of generations, before that they were in New York and the UK before that. Chris was a a farmer, preacher and carpenter. Laura Maude Shaw was born in 1894 in Minnesota; within a few years after her birth, they moved to Eastonville, Colorado. Then in 1901, they emigrated to Puyallup. In 1912, Laura married Edwin Guy Clifford, who was born in Colorado in 1892.
I am trying to find info on my 8th great grandfather John Rainwater.. I was told he was part of the bird clan born in 1695 died in 1777 married to Mary Nicole Fussell..
John Rainwater was not Cherokee or Native. He was born in Virginia, before moving to North Carolina. His father, Robert Raynewater (the British spelling), was an immigrant from the United Kingdom.