Eastern Cherokee By Blood, 1906-1910: Volume I Applications 1-3000 - Paperback

by Jeff Bowen (Transcribed by)

The Eastern Cherokee by Blood series Volumes I - XIII is the most complete series in pure transcribed form (from National Archival film, M-1104) of the Cherokee abstracts available and beyond, nothing added, nothing taken away. From the first application to the last (45,857) representing approximately 90,000 individuals and then in Volume XIII The Exceptions Filed to Guion Miller's Report of May 28, 1909, and submitted on January 5, 1910. The complete record of application decisions gives both those accepted and rejected. There are thousands of names and families involved in this finished series. Let it be known that if there are rejections it may not mean the applicant is not Cherokee, only due to the fact that they may not have been related to an Emigrant Cherokee during the time of removal. Their ancestor could have belonged to a different tribe or have been an Old Settler Cherokee, a Western-born Cherokee, or possibly even a Texas-born Cherokee that had family that left the east as early as 1818-1820.