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• Access Genealogy - Search the Final Rolls

  Index to the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations in Indian Territory.

• American Indian Tribes in Oklahoma

• Ancestry.com - U.S. Federal Census Collection

  Browse by census year, state, county, township. Census images available with fee-based subscription.

  • 1900

    • Apache, Kiowa and Comanche Reservation

    • Kaw Indian Reservation

    • Osage & Kaw Reservations

    • Osage Indian Reservation

    • Wichita Indian Reservation

    • Wichita, Apache, Kiowa and Comanche Reservation

• Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

• FamilySearch - Oklahoma Applications for Enrollment to the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914 ^FREE

  These records list the individuals who were accepted as eligible for tribal membership in the "Five Civilized Tribes": Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles. This record set is also known as the "Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes" and make up NARA publication M1301: Applications for Enrollment of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914. The records include 101,000 names from 1898-1914 (primarily from 1899-1906) and provide the enrollee's name, sex, blood degree, and census card number. Index provided by Fold3.

• First Families of the Twin Territories

  First Families of the Twin Territories was founded to recognize, honor and perpetuate the memory of early Pioneer and Indian families who were residents of Oklahoma or Indian Territory on or before the date of statehood. A Project of the Oklahoma Genealogical Society.

• Freedmen Of The Five Civilized Tribes - Black Indians

  Scanned images of the complete Final rolls index with census card numbers of Freedmen only. Complete 1860 Slave Schedule of Indian Lands (Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Cherokee Schedules). PICKENS, ROBERTS, STEVENSON, COLBERT Freedmen Census Cards.

• Freedmen of the Frontier

  African American genealogy and historical reference site for western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma.

• GEDCOM Index - Oklahoma

  Index of GEDCOM files found online, arranged by surname and given name.

• History of Oklahoma Volume III published 1916 by Joseph B. Thoburn

• Individual Indian Files | OHS Research Center

  Search an index to the Individual Indian Files for various tribes including the Cheyenne & Arapaho, Absentee Shawnee, Sac & Fox, Citizen Potawatomi, Iowa, Mexican Kickapoo, Pawnee, Kaw, Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache. The files include business records for some individuals in the tribe. The index is free; copies of the files are available from the Oklahoma Historical Society Research Center.

• Intruders and Non-Citizens in the Creek Nation 1875-1895

• ITGenWeb - Indian & Oklahoma Territory Genealogy

  • Cherokee Nation

  • Cherokee Outlet

  • Cheyenne-Arapaho Lands Genealogy

  • Chickasaw Nation

  • Choctaw Nation

  • Creek Muscogee Nation

  • Delaware (Lenape) Indian Tribe of Oklahoma

  • Greer County, Oklahoma Territory

  • Kiowa, Comanche & Apache

  • No Man's Land

  • Osage Nation

  • Ponca Agency

  • Quapaw Agency Lands

  • Sac & Fox Agency

  • Seminole Nation

  • Unassigned Lands of Oklahoma Territory

  • Wichita & Caddo Nations

• OHS Research Center | Search Marriage Records

  This Oklahoma Historical Society database includes various marriage affidavits, licenses, certificates, etc. from 1903-1907 for Indian Territory (Oklahoma) and Oklahoma County Marriage Records 1889-1951.

• OKBits - Old Family Letters

  Letters from early day Oklahoma and Indian Territories and shortly after statehood in 1907.

• OKGenWeb Oklahoma Genealogy - Indian Pioneer Papers of Oklahoma

  Oklahoma pioneer interviews from a WPA Project 1937-38.

• Oklahoma Genealogical Society - Settlers and Builders of Oklahoma

  Settlers and Builders of Oklahoma, under the jurisdiction of the Oklahoma Genealogical Society, was founded to recognize, honor, and perpetuate the memory of the residents that helped build the new State of Oklahoma from statehood, 16 Nov 1907 through 31 Dec 1929.

• Online County and Town Histories - Oklahoma

  This site provides over 3,000 links to free county and town histories published from 1850 to the early 1920s. These histories often contain detailed biographies of their citizens.

• Our Family Tree - Oklahoma Genealogy

  Collection of family trees and resources for the state of Oklahoma: Smallwood, Sill, Buckley, Pope, Gibbs, Siler, Grisso, Love, Burks, Bailey

• Selected Index of Intruders and Non-Citizens in the Creek Nation (1876-1897)