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• A Guide to Tracing American Indian & Alaska Native Ancestry

  Office of Public Affairs-Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior.

• A Guide to Tracing American Indian & Alaska Native Ancestry - U.S. Department of the Interior

• Ancestry.com - Researching Your American Indian Ancestors on Ancestry

• Ancestry.com Blog - Searching for Native American Ancestry? Take These Steps to Learn More

  This is a guest post by Paula Stuart Warren, CG℠, FMGS, FUGA.

• Ancestry.com Wiki - The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy

  The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy is a reference book published by Ancestry Publishing. The first edition was published in 1984 and was edited by Arlene H. Eakle and Johni Cerny. A revised edition, edited by Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, was published in 1997. The current edition, the third, was published in 2006 and was also edited by Szucs and Luebking. In 2010, Ancestry.com digitized the content of The Source and made it available in wiki format as one of the foundational sources for the Ancestry.com Wiki. Each chapter has been broken into one or more series of articles. This wiki is a free service of Ancestry.com.

  • Ancestry.com Wiki - Overview of Native American Research

    This article originally appeared in "Native American Research" by Curt B. Witcher, MLS, FUGA, FIGS, and George J. Nixon in The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy This wiki is a free service of Ancestry.com.

• Carolyne's Native American Genealogy Helper

  How-to articles regarding Native American Genealogy research; census lists, roll data including microfilm numbers,tribal information; transcriptions of obscure records.

• Cherokee Genealogy Tutorial

• FamilySearch Wiki - Indigenous Peoples of the United States Genealogy

  Indigenous Peoples of the United States Genealogy is a guide to beginning Native American research, available records types, BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs) agencies and reservations, census, church, military records, schools, annuity, allotment, treaties, removal records, archives and libraries, cultural groups, and forts. Several approaches could be taken to locate information about a potential Native American ancestor.

• How To Guide for Native Americans

  By Paul R. Sarrett, Jr.