COPPER ROOTS · RESEARCH INDEX
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Search federal land patents, survey plats, and field notes documenting initial transfers of public lands in Public Land States. Availability and record types depend on place and date.
LTROs record documents affecting Indian trust and restricted land title and maintain related title records. Contact the office for the relevant region; this is not a general genealogy or tribal-enrollment index.
Applications and related records created for a Court of Claims award involving Eastern Cherokee claimants. Applications can include family details; the roll and application files reflect that specific claims process.
NARA holds the Final Rolls and related census cards, enrollment applications, allotment jackets, and maps for the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole nations in Indian Territory.
The 1928 Baker Roll and related applications, testimony, correspondence, decisions, and reports are reproduced in NARA microfilm publication M2104. These records concern the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians enrollment process of that period.
NARA lists this as a specific 1832 Creek census series on microfilm T275. The supplied label “Eastern Creek Enrollment” was not confirmed as the catalog title; do not assume it is an alias for this census.
The requested name was not verified as an official record title.
NARA identifies the 1831 Census Roll Concerning Choctaw Removal as the Armstrong Roll. The roll is connected with the removal period following the 1830 Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek; the record series itself is dated 1831.
NARA spells the first series “Drennen” and identifies it alongside the Chapman Roll among older Cherokee rolls referenced with the Guion Miller records. These are distinct historical roll series, not the later Miller application roll.
The Circuit Clerk provides information about court records and public access at the courthouse; the Probate Office lists its own online records service. Record types, years, and access differ by office, so confirm holdings with the relevant clerk.
ADAH provides catalogs, selected digital collections, and a county-records-on-microfilm database. County holdings and dates vary; many original local records remain with the originating office.
Georgia Archives describes lotteries held in 1805, 1807, 1820, 1821, 1827, and 1832 within this requested span. The Archives also lists a separate 1833 lottery; surviving records and participant lists vary by drawing.
TSLA provides inventories of county records on microfilm and other state and local historical records. The inventory helps identify holdings by county; it does not mean every item is digitized or online.
MDAH offers genealogy finding aids, archival catalogs, selected digital materials, and microfilm copies of many county records. Holdings differ by county and some records are available only in person.
Florida Memory is an outreach program providing free online access to selected digitized records from the State Archives and special collections of the State Library. It is not the archive itself, and most holdings are not digitized there.
The Nation’s preservation department documents and protects valued historic and cultural resources and serves as a contact for preservation consultation. It is not presented here as a public genealogy or enrollment-record index.
A Poarch Band public release references an oral history given to the Poarch Creek Archives. No browsable public catalog or holdings guide was located in this review, so specific record coverage and access should be confirmed with the Band.
Public catalog and holdings guide not located.