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Cherokee Baker Roll - the definitive roll for determining enrollment in the Eastern Band Tribes.

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Note:  This is an important census because of the additional information it provides to family researchers.  It includes the number of total children born and the number still alive as well as years married.

Cherokee Guion Roll - In 1906, the U.S. Government appointed Guion Miller to compile a roll of Eastern and Western Cherokees eligible for compensation (more than $1 million) from the government for lands taken in the 1830s. Applicants had to document their lineage back to an Eastern Cherokee living in the 1830s and prove that they had not affiliated with any other tribe. Over 45,000 applications that document about 90,000 Cherokees living about 1910 are in Eastern Cherokee Applications, 1906-1909.

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Cherokee Dawes Commission Index, 1898-1914 - Commonly called the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, the Dawes Commission was appointed by President Grover Cleveland in 1893. In return for  abolishing their tribal governments and recognizing state and federal laws, tribe members of the Five Civilized Tribes - the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole - were given a share of common property. This database indexes the original applications for tribal enrollments under the act of June 28, 1898. It also indexes documents such as birth and death affidavits, marriage licenses, and decisions and orders of the Commission. This roll is the basis for tribal membership in the Cherokee Nation.

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• Index at NARA
• 1896 Index
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Note:  This is an important census because of the additional information it provides to family researchers.  It includes the number of total children born and the number still alive as well as years married.

All federal census records for the areas we cover were lost in a fire.  Some areas have tried to reconstruct this census using other documentation such as the 1890 Special Schedules of Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, & Widows, etc. To the right are counties that have transcribed these Special Schedules.

Tennessee Census Index, 1810-91 - includes the 1890 Veterans Schedule & the 1891 voters' list - this is a state-wide searchable index.

Georgia Census Index, 1790-1890 - includes the 1890 Veterans Schedule - this is a state-wide searchable index.

North Carolina Census Index, 1790-1890 - includes the 1890 Veterans Schedule - this is a state-wide searchable index.

Mitchell NC

Transylvania NC:  1 2 3 4 5 6

Greene TN

James TN

Loudon TN

US Indian Census Schedules

 

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Note: The 1880 census was the first census to include mother and father birth locations for each individual as well as relationship to the head of household.

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State Agricultural Schedules

NC is available; TN is available

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Note: The 1870 census was the first census after the Civil War.  Freed slaves are included in this census.

State Agricultural Schedules

NC is available; TN is available;  SC is available

SC State Census

Oconee and Spartanburg are lost.  The 1869 census is especially important; it is the first state schedule to enumerate former slaves by name.

Census for Re-Organizing the Georgia Militia ed. Nancy J. Cornell

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• Georgia Virtual Vault
  
  ...is a statewide census of all white males between the ages of 16 and 60 who were not at the time in the service of the Confederate States of America. Based on a law passed by the Georgia Legislature in December 1863 to provide for the protection of women, children, and invalids living at home, it is a list of some 42,000 men--many of them exempt from service--who were able to serve in local militia companies and perform such home front duties as might be required of them.  Each one of the 42,000 persons enrolled was listed by his full name, age, occupation, place of birth, and reason (if any) for his exemption from service.

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Note:  In some counties of Western NC, the actual county/state of birth was enumerated for each person.

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Federal Slave Schedules

State Agricultural Schedules
NC is available; TN is available

Cherokee:  Supplement Roll to the Silar Roll - added 88 names

Cherokee: Silar Rolls

Federal

This was the first federal census that included names of every member of the household, age and birthplace. However, it did not include head, wife, son, dtr or other descriptions of relationships.

Federal Slave Schedules

State Agricultural Schedules

NC is available; TN is available

Federal

Census of Pensioners
Revolutionary or Military Services

GA State Census

Cherokee Indian Census Schedules

Cherokee Co., NC

After the Georgia Cherokee Land Lottery, 1832, Georgia took a state census of those counties that were created by this Lottery.  Not all of them have been transcribed and placed on-line...only those to the right.

Cass/Bartow:
GGM, No. 90 (263-264) and NGHGS, Vol. 12, No. 4 (26-27)

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The 1820 Census was lost for all counties of the Marshal's District of East Tennessee. Therefore, there are no 1820 census records for Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamilton, Hawkins, Jefferson, Knox, McMinn, Marion, Monroe, Morgan, Rhea, Roane, Sevier, Sullivan, and Washington.

Franklin and Rabun Cos., GA schedules have been lost.

 Reconstructed Rabun Co. GA

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TN and GA census schedules have been lost.  A portion of Grainger Co., TN did survive.

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TN and GA census schedules have been lost.

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GA census has been lost. TN was not yet a state, just a territory.  NC extended West all the way to the Mississippi River.  SC area that we include on AAG was known as Pendleton & Spartanburg Districts.

 World Vital Records

 Reconstructed Franklin Co., GA

NC State Census

Only Burke Co. of our AAG area is included in this census.

Wilkes Co.

SC: Unknown County

SC :  Old 96th Dist.

Old Tryon Co., NC
....  was created in 1768 and was dissolved in 1779.  The boundaries consisted of (present-day) part of Burke, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, part of McDowell Polk, Rutherford, all of North Carolina.  Also consisted of (present-day) Cherokee, Spartanburg, and small parts of Chester, Greenville, Laurens, and York Counties all of South Carolina.