![]() Is is specially difficult to trace the ancestry of Cherokee Freedmen. The Baker Roll, 1924, the Final Rolls of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina. The link will take you to the NARA web page where they are listed. Your great grandparents had to list all the information on their parents and their grandparents. This list won't entitle you to anything, but if you find an ancestor here, you can find a gold-mine of family history, that can link you back to the History of the Cherokee Indians book, or back to the Final Dawes Roll. The Guion-Miller Roll, enrollment applications for the Eastern Cherokees, 1907-1909, National Archives. If you have an ancestor on this list, you are eligible for tribal membership in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. The Final Dawes Rolls, enumeration of the five civilized tribes, 1900-1906, National Archives. With this book, I was able to trace my ancestry from my great grandfather, John Vann, born in 1854, back to his great great great great grandfather born in the early 1700's. The 'extract' I have posted on this site is a list of Vann's and their spouses with page numbers where their marriage is recorded. If you have an ancestor in this book, you are eligible for membership in the Cherokee National Historical Society, First Families of the Cherokee Nation. Emmit Starr, the Warden Co, Oklahoma City, 1921. "History of the Cherokee Indians", by Dr. My elders, I wouldn't be here without them …. Primary sources for my research (among many others) Thank you, great-grandmother, for leaving a ‘paper trail’ Research your Vann ancestors here, I have nearly all of them from about 1600 to 1906. On this Genealogy section you will see the fruits of nearly a century of loving labor. In the mid 1970’s I picked up the family "torch" and began my research where the others had left off. This project was a failure, so my father also wrote letters to the Cherokee Nation. In the late 1950’s my father Joseph Harold Vann, hired professional genealogists to construct a family tree. In the 1930’s, my grandfather Joseph Daniel Vann wrote letters to the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma, seeking his ancestry. This saga began in 1907, when my great grandmother Sarah Vann applied for admission to the Miller Roll. For pictures and information about my ancestors, please go to my pictures page. To aid in this task, I have included Native American ancient and modern history, society, religion, folklore, medicine, and a large slice of VANN genealogy on this page. The purpose of this page is to help other people connect to their Cherokee roots. However, I am not a carded member of any Cherokee tribe nor I am affiliated with the Cherokee Nation or the Eastern Tribe. I am a Charter Lifetime Member of the Cherokee National Historical Society’s, First Families of the Cherokee Nation and member of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG). My name is David Vann, great-great-great grandson of ‘Chief’ Rich Joe Vann of the Old Cherokee Nation.
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