Cherokee Genealogy: Books in the Santa Clara City Library
How-To Books/Video
Cherokee Connections: An Introduction to Genealogical Sources Pertaining To Cherokee Ancestors by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Family Historian Books, 1995. [GR 929.1 G67]
Cherokee Proud: A Guide for Tracing and Honoring Your Cherokee Ancestors by Tony Mack McClure, Chunannee Books, 1997. [GS 929.1 M15]
How to Enroll in an Indian Tribe by Heather Morningstar, Arrowstar Pub., 1993 [GR 970.4 M86]
Native American Genealogy, [videocassette] Summit, N.J.: TV-36, 1994 [Video 929.1 N27]
Tracing ancestors among the Five Civilized Tribes: Southeastern Indians Prior to Removal by Rachel Mills Lennon, Genealogical Publishing Company, 2002 [GS 929.1 L56]
Indexes to Census, Dawes Roll, Guillon Miller Roll, Vital & other Records
1880 and 1890 Census, Canadian District, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory transcribed by Sharron Standifer Ashton, Oklahoma Genealogical Society, 1978 [GS 929.3766 A82]
1880 Cherokee Nation Census [CD-Rom, electronic resource] by Barbara L. Benge, Heritage Books, 2000, Windows/MacIntosh Version [CD-ROM 929.3766 B46]
1900 U.S. Census of the Cherokee Indian Nation, Indian Territory: now Muskogee & Sequoyah County, Oklahoma compiled and printed by Carole Ellsworth and Sue Emier, 2 volumes, C. Ellsworth and S. Emler, 1982- [GS 929.3766 E47]
Authenticated Rolls of 1880: Cherokee Nation – Indian Territory, 2 volumes, edited and revised by Boyce D. Timmons and Alice Tyner Timmons, Chi-ga-u, 1978 [GS 929.3766 S98]
Supplement to the 1880 Authenticated Rolls of the Cherokee Nation edited and revised by Boyce D. Timmons and Alice Tyner Timmons, Chi-Ga-U, 1980 [GS 929.3766 S95]
Cherokee by Blood: Records of Eastern Cherokee Ancestry in the U.S. Court of Claims, 1906-1910 compiled by Jerry Wright Jordan, 9 volumes, Heritage Books, 1987- [GS 929.3766 J82]
The Cherokee Land Lottery, containing a numerical list of the names of the fortunate drawers in said lottery, with an engraved map of each district by James F. Smith, Genealogical Pub. Co., 1969 [GR 929.3758 S65]
Cherokee Nation Births and Deaths, 1884 – 1901, abstracted from Indian Cheiftan and Daily Chieftan Newspapers by Dixie Bogle, sponsored by Northeast Oklahoma Genealogical Society, Cook & McDowell Publications, 1980 [GR 929.3766 B67]
Cherokee Nation Marriages, 1884 – 1901, abstracted from Indian Chieftan newspapers by Dixie Bogle and Dorothy Nix, Cook & McDowell Publications, 1980 [GR 929.3766 B67]
Cherokee Reservees, compiled by David Keith Hampton, Baker Pub. Co., 1979 [GS 929.3766 H23]
Cherokee Roots (2nd edition), 2 volumes by Bob Blankenship, B. Blankenship, 1992 [GR 929.3766 B64]
Dawes Roll “Plus” of Cherokee Nation “1898” (2nd edtion) by Bob Blankenship, Cherokee Roots Pub., 1994 [GS 929.3766 B64]
Early Settlers by James Manford Carselowey, Adair, Okla., James Manford Carselowey, 1962 [GS 929.376 C32]
Extract of the Rejected Applications of the Guion Miller Roll of The Eastern Cherokee by Jo Ann Curis Page, Heritage Books, 1999 [GS 929.3766 P13]
Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory prepared by the Commission and Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes; and approved by the Secretary of the Interior on or prior to March 4, 1907, United States. Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, Reprinted by Genealogical Pub. Co., 2003 [GR 970.004 U58]
Index to the Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory prepared by the Commission and Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, United States Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, Genealogical Pub. Col., 2003 [GR 970.004 U58]
Guion Miller Roll “Plus” of Eastern Cherokee, East & West of Mississippi “1909” by Bob Blankenship, Cherokee Roots Pub., 1994 [GS 929.3766 B64]
Index to The Cherokee Freedman Enrollment Cards of The Dawes Commission, 1901 – 1906 by Jo Ann Curls Page, Heritage Books, 1996 [GR 929.3766 P13]
Miscellaneous Cherokee and Chocktaw Records, 1800 – 1900 by Bob Curry, Heritage Books, 2001 [GS 929.376 C97]
Our People and Where They Rest by James W. Tyner & Alice Tyner, J. Tyner, A. Timmons, 1969 – 1985, 12 volumes, [GS 929.3766 T98]
Those Who Cried: the 16,000: a Record of the Individual Cherokees listed in the United States Official Census of the Cherokee Nation Conducted in 1835 arranged, edited, and indexed by James W. Tyner, Chi-ga-u Inc., 1974 [GS 929.373 T98]
History
Cherokee: photography by David G. Fitzgerald; text by Robert J. Conley; introduction by Chadwick Smith, Graphic Arts Center Pub., 2002 [GS 970.004 F55]
History of the Cherokee Indians and Their Legends and Folk Lore by Emmet Starr, Oklahoma Yesterday, 1993, c1979 [GS 929.3766 S79]
Cherokee Databases searchable from Ancestry Library Edition
Georgia Cherokee Land Lottery, 1832
Wallace Roll of Cherokee Freedmen, 1890-93