Hello everyone! I have quite a few Cherokee and Choctaw ancestors with the last names of Polson, Pate, McDonald, and Reese. My great grandmother was born on the Cherokee Reservation in 1897, which is well documented--the problem I'm having is with my own grandmother's & uncle's documentation. Even on Rootsweb they are not listed with the other 4 children. My grandmother was never able to find a birth certificate, altho they are available for the older 4 children, 3 of whom passed as children. I've spent hours searching--it is as if my great grandmother and her family vanished after her husband died in 1928--I can't find any of them on the 1930 census. It makes me wonder if, in her grief of losing her 2 daughters and son, that she didn't grab someone else's children and make a run for Texas, avoiding the census. My older great uncle (a mean old man) always told my granny that he had a secret but he would never tell. I'm so frustrated.

Do you have Death records citing parentage?  These will likely do for enrollment and you might look in Talequah at the archive at Northeastern.  Further documentation may be available on your grandmother....

Connie