Bibliography
of Cherokee Genealogy
By Donald N. Panther-Yates,
Ph.D.
(1995)
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Baker, Jack D. Cherokee Emigration Rolls, 1817-1835. Oklahoma City, Okla.: Baker Publishing Co., 1977. Index and notes.
Barr, Charles B. Guide to Sources of Indian Genealogy. Independence, Mo.: By the Author, 1989. How-to book.
Bell, George Morrison (Cherokee). Genealogy of Old and New Cherokee Indian Families. Bartlesville, Okla.: By the Author, 1972. Family lineages and linkages.
Bogle, Dixie and Dorothy Nix. Cherokee Nation Marriages, 1884-1901. Owensboro, Ky.: Cook & McDowell Publications, 1980. Notices abstracted from Indian Chieftain newspaper.
Blankenship, Bob (Cherokee). Cherokee Roots. 2nd ed. 2 vols. Chero-kee, N.C.: Cherokee Roots, 1992. Names on Eastern and Western census rolls.
Brown, Brenda K. and Marcelle S. Edwards, written in collabo-ration with E. Raymond Evans, with Foreword by Cecil Grant. Cherokee and Proud of It! Hustler Printing Co., Inc.: South Pittsburg, Tenn., 1982. Family history.
Bf! !S. Cherokee Blood Newsletter, ed. Shirley Hoskins (Chattanooga, Tenn.: 1983– ). Subscription and back issues available from P.O. Box 22261,Chattanooga, TN 37422.
The Cherokee Tracer. Vol. I, No. 1 (Winter 1991– ). Quarterly periodical edited and published by Marybelle W. Chase in Tulsa, Okla.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. International Genealogical Index. 1988 edition. Huge database published on CD-ROMs at Mormon Family History Centers.
Everton, George B., Jr. and Louise Mathews, ed. The Handy Book for Genealogists. United States of America Eighth Edition. Logan, Utah: The Everton Publishers, 1991. Take-with-you-to-the-library reference book.
Hampton, David Keith. Descendants of Nancy Ward. Norman, Okla.: By the Author, 1975. Family history.
Carter, Kent. "Deciding Who Can Be Cherokee: Enrollment Records of the Dawes Commission," in: Chronicles of Oklaho-ma, Vol. 69 (1991), pp. 174-205. Analysis of inconsistencies and vagaries of enrollment.
Carter, Kent. "Wantabees and Outalucks: Searching for Indian Ancestors in Federal Records," in: Chronicles of Oklahoma, Vol. 66 (1988), pp. 94-104. First place to go before using federal records.
Davis, Robert S., Jr.(Cherokee). "Documenting the Oral Tradition of a Native American Ancestor: Lineage to an Unknown Cherokee, Part I" in: Ancestry Newsletter (October 1993), pp. 6-11. Case study.
Davis, Robert S., Jr. (Cherokee). A Guide to Native American (Indian) Research Sources at the Georgia Department of Archives and History. Jasper, Ga.: By the Author, 1985. Depository guide by Cherokee historian.
Hoskins, Shirley Coats (Cherokee). Cherokee Property Evalua-tion, 1836. Chattanooga, Tenn.: By the Author, 1984. Abstracts and transcriptions.
Jordan, Jerry Wright. Cherokee by Blood. Records of Eastern Cherokee Ancestry in the U.S. Court of Claims 1906-1910. 8 vols. (New York: Heritage Books, 1988-1992). Abstracts of applications, transcriptions of affidavits of applicants.
Kirkham, E. Kay. Our Native Americans and Their Records of Genealogical Value. Logan, Utah: The Everton Publishers, 1980. Guide to archival sources.
Martini, Don. Southeastern Indian Notebook: A Biographical and
Genealogical Guide to the Five Civilized Tribes, 1685-1865. Ripley, Miss.:
Ripley Printing Company, 1986.
Biographies and genealogies.
McDonald, Dorman Laurez. Ancestor Trails to Georgia and Alabama. LaGrange, Ga.: Family Tree, 1987. Family history of McDonalds, Gibsons, Yateses, Grabens and other mixed lines.
McGhee, Lucy Kate. Cherokee Walkers: Claims of People by the Name of Walker Intermarried with the Cherokee Indians. 3 vols. Wash-ington, D.C.: By the Author, 1958-1959. Family history.
McGhee, Lucy Kate. Historical Records of the Cherokee Indians Compiled to Honor the Famous Indian Woman, Nancy Ward, of Tennessee and Her Noted Uncle, Atta Cullaculla and Son-in-Law, General Joseph Martin and Daughter, Mrs. Gener-al Joseph (Betsey Ward) Martin. Washington, D.C.: n.d. Con-tains marriage records.
Mooney, Thomas G. (Cherokee). Exploring Your Cherokee Ancestry: A Basic Genealogical Research Guide. Cherokee, N.C.: Cherokee Publications, 1992. How-to manual.
Nixon, George J. "Records Relating to Native American Research: The Five Civilized Tribes," Chapter 17 in Arlene Eakle and Johni Cerny, The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy (Salt Lake City: Ances-try Publishing Company, 1984). Genealogist's guide to Fort Worth Federal Record Cen-ter, the National Archives and the Oklahoma Historical Center in Oklahoma City; contains useful reproductions of sample records and large bibliography.
Parnell, Nadine Dulaney. The Griff Family's Cherokee Heritage, 1698-1968. Muskogee, Okla.: By the Author, 1986. Family history.
Read, William A. Indian Place-Names in Alabama. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1937. Gazetteer.
Rhame, Clara Dunagan, Ruth Hollomon Palmer and Ralph Meldrin. The Buffington Family in America. Houston, Tex.: Mary B. Webb, 1965. Family history.
Romans, Daisy M. (Cherokee). Genealogy of the Cherokee Starrs. Tulsa, Okla.: Oklahoma Yesterday, 1981. Family history.
Rose, Helen York (Cherokee-Lenape). I Walked the Footsteps of My Fathers. (Ozark, Mo.: Dogwood Printing, 1989). Award-winning family history.
Sanders, Melodie (Cherokee). Selective Bibliography on Cherokee Indians. MS. October 26, 1992. Available from the author at McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa, 600 South College, Tulsa, OK 74104 or online over the Internet at MES@VAX2.UTULSA.EDU. Bibliography for genealogists.
Shirk, George. Oklahoma Place Names. Norman, Okla.: Uni-versity of Oklahoma Press, 1976. Gazetteer.
Smith, Betty Sharpe and Ruth Bradley Holmes. Beginning Cherokee. 2nd Edition. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989. Standard language text-book.
"So Your Grandmother Was a Cherokee Princess," article found on the
Internet in the online edition of Cherokee Messen-ger (http://www.NeoSoft.com/powersource/
cherokee/default.html). Genealogy instructions.
Spindel, Donna. Introductory Guide to Indian-related Records (to 1876) in the North Carolina State Archives. Raleigh, N.C.: North Carolina State Division of Archives and History, 1977. Depository guide.
Starr, Emmet (Cherokee). Old Families and Their Genealogy. History of the Cherokee Indians and Their Legends and Folk Lore. With a comprehensive index compiled by J. J. Hill. Origi-nal edition published in 1921. Norman, Okla: University of Oklahoma Foundation, 1968. Family lines and linkages.
Tennessee State Library and Archives. Registers, Number 11, Cherokee Collec-tion. Nash-ville, Tenn.: Manuscript Division, 1966. Reference guide.
Tyner, James W. (Cherokee).Our People and Where They Rest. 12 vols. 1969-1985. Indexed. Native American Genealo-gy, 8745 E. 9th Street, Tulsa, OK 74112-4815. Northeastern Oklahoma cemetery guide.
Tyner, James W. (Cherokee). 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. Indexed. Norman, Okla.: Chi-ga-u Inc., 1974. Names of Cherokees living in Alabama, North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee.
Walker, Homer A. Cherokee Indian Census of 1835 for the State of Tennessee. Washington, D.C.: n.d. Index of names of Cherokees enumerated.
Walker, Homer A. Cherokee Indian Census of 1835 for the States of Georgia, Alabama, and North Carolina. Washington, D.C.: n.d. Index of names of Cherokees enumerated.
Where to Write for Vital Statistics. Washington, D.C.: Depart-ment of Health and Human Services. Booklet listing addresses and telephone numbers of agencies in each state providing certified birth, marriage, death and divorce records.
Yates, Donald N. (Cherokee).The Bear Went Over the Moun-tain.Genealogy
and social history of a Southern U.S. family; the story of the Native American/English
Yates family, from colonial Virginia to twentieth-century Florida, with
sketches of pioneer life and traditional stories, including an account
of James and Elisabeth Yates of Heard County, Georgia, together with an
appendix about Southern language, numerous photographs, charts and illustrations,
not without an index, viz. of persons of the surname Bondurant/Bundren,
Cooper, Denn(e)y, Faw-cett/-Fossett, Gates, Goble, Graben, Kimball/Kimble/Kimbrell/-Kimbrough,
Kitchens, McDonald, Mitchell, Redwine, Shankles, and Yates/Yeat(e)s of
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North and South
Carolina, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Princeton,
N.J. : The Cherokee Press, 1995. Assimilated family on the Old Southwest
frontier.