HISTORYGEO.COM GENEALOGY DATABASE REVIEW : THE CHEROKEE ALLOTMENTS IN OKLAHOMA ARE EXCELLENT #2

https://historygeo.com/  The database I used was within a genealogy library. This link may not bring up THE CHEROKEE ALLOTMENT Oklahoma link... If not, do see if your library subscribes to this database!

Ross, Carlisle, Miegs, Newton, Jordon....

Tehee, Rattlingourd, (See Range 22-east)

Walkabout

Bearpaw

Pigeon

Hazelwood

Wood

Star

McClure

(If you know your Cherokee history some of these names will be familiar to you...)

MOST OF THE NAMES ARE ENGLISH - AMERICAN - but that's OK. If you know the surname and you want to check out the Cherokee who were moved to Oklahoma, there is abundant possibility here...

The state map is sectioned into ranges and the land ownership by Cherokee is indicated by parcel size. The boundary is also shown between the Cherokee and the Creek Nation which you will see at Muskogee County  (See Range 19-east)

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HISTORYGEO.COM GENEALOGY DATABASE REVIEW : INTERESTING HISTORICAL MAP COLLECTION #1

https://historygeo.com/  There is a surname function.

There are many tourist maps on the Internet today and various sources for old maps including National and local archives. But I thought I'd give his database a try while at a genealogy library.

Maps made about the time they lived in a city, town, village, hamlet are the best.

I love to take genealogy writing a bit further, to include some understanding of where our ancestors lived, which is a whole lot about how they lived.

The Landowners Project is ongoing and to be honest, the area I was interested in was not (yet) included.

We can see if our ancestors lived near a river, a school, a cemetery, a church, or a factory - maybe where they worked. We can see if they lived in a single family home (house) or a townhouse or rowhouse, or perhaps a hotel. (The name of the school, cemetery, church or factory can link you to school, cemetery, church, or employment records.)

We can link census with address with a map. We can use landowner maps to also seek out deeds and inheritances, land grants, squatters rights.

Sometimes we can link the old map with the new, or an address with a Google Street View or Google Earth.

I used the HISTORICAL MAPS for an area I grew up in. I looked at 1850, 1862, 1890, and 1898.  All in the distant past, long before I grew up there. But I could see the names of the landowners had become the names of the streets and roads. It was interesting when a property was listed as "so and so's heirs" and when the creek showed up with an actual name. Also listed were stores, parsonages, and then where the railroad came through...

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YOU CAN GET CENSUS INFORMATION 1950 -2010 with HEIR PROVISION

CENSUS - UNITED STATES OFFICIAL SITE

72 years of privacy guard most of us from having our private information displayed to the world - at least from this agency.

You may have reason not to want that information out - now or forever.

Maybe you were in a hospital or shelter or orphanage. 

Maybe you don't want your family to know where you are.

Maybe you want to die without anyone else knowing it.

But so many people are living beyond 72 years of age these days.

The 72 years was originally based on the idea that most people would not be alive when this information about them would be made available.

As a researcher you can occasionally bypass the 72 year wait.

Read the forms at the official U.S. Census site and see if you are eligible to have them do a search for an individual.  The reason will be to confirm an age for a delayed birth certificate or locating someone due to an inheritance, some implied legal reason.

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EVIDENCE OF INHERITANCE ON CENSUS

Did one person in the family outclass the others?

There is sometimes evidence of this on the census.

Some things to consider:

If you have an adult sibling group, did the oldest son perhaps inherit from the Old Country where only the oldest son was a recognized heir? If so he may be living in a house while the others rent or be able to afford rent beyond his obvious income. What is his profession?

Is he perhaps a factory worker living next to a doctor or a bond salesman? If you can't really determine how much the real estate they live in was worth on the market that year or in that place and use a inflation calculator the kinds of work neighbors do can be telling!

You may want to research the general inheritance laws and/or practices in the ethnic country of origin. What went on in Germany did not always go on in Hungary, but Germans in Hungary might continue to practice the same rules of inheritance, as an example.

Is he living in an ethnic ghetto or near other family members.  Possibly the person who has more or earns more is the first to leave the ghetto for the suburbs.

Did a daughter "marry up?" In days past - and that includes the 1950 census - when most women became wives, housewives, and mothers, and were totally dependent on a husbands income, this may be evident in the profession of her husband as compared to that of her siblings.  Sometimes it is because a daughter had a father with an inheritance to provide a formal or informal dowry that she was able to marry up.  Another possibility is that college was afforded for the daughter and there she met a man who was educated or a professional as a husband.

You may  be able to find titles to land or actual wills and other legal documents that would show inheritance beyond a census.

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STOLEN GENEALOGIES - THEFTS THWART INHERITANCES

These days there are so many opportunities for people to play at genealogy and share information (proven or not) that the answer to the question of what information is stolen is rather fuzzy.  But in this post I consider genealogies that were actually physically stolen!


It just so happens that over the last couple months I've run into two couples who are upset because the genealogy of their family was stolen along with other items from their garages!  OK, a typical garage is NOT the place to keep a family genealogy.  I believe that it should remain in a house that isn't damp or filled with insects or rodents or the gas fumes and if you inherit some old paperwork, it deserves to be copied.  Consider taking it to a place that does big blueprint copies for architects and designers.  Then put it into a mailing tube and seal that up.  Consider putting copies into the archive of a library or to be held in another family member's dehumidified attic.  Do something to preserve it!  (And remember to go over it and proof everything yourself, just in case someone in your family was too eager to tie you into royalty or casino rights!)


In the cases I recently heard of though, INHERITANCES were being tied up because someone died without a will or or had a will but did not have the names and addresses of those family who were to inherit.  One of these cases takes place in the United States and the other in England.


To begin with the English case, the American family contracted with some company over there YEARS ago to track down those due to inherit.  I'm sorry to say I believe that this company did nothing or is claiming to be doing something but hasn't or this couple have been uniformed because they were cut out. I suggested they get with the company and find out what is going on.  If you are in the United States and in this situation, and there is a nice sum of money you need possibly waiting for you to claim, be aware that you do not need to hire some person or company in England to do the work.  Granted it's possible that a judge in a court there might find a local company rather than a distant one more believable but not necessarily.  First of all records for England are usually quite good, it's a small country, and a professional there should know the resources and how to get to them quickly.  After all, the person who died only died five years ago.  So I think, just to show that you are not passively waiting or entirely ignorant, you should hire a genealogist who can contact those resources long distance.  (There is always e-mail.)
As for the American family, the person died just a couple years ago with a hand-written will, referring to certain members of the family who he had no contact with for many years, and the effort is a little closer to hiring a private investigator than a genealogist.  Let's just say that I've done PI type work but using genealogy methods as well as genealogy ethics and standards - no schemes, no tricks, no lies (not that all PI's operate this way but some surely do!)  The genealogist verifies the relationship to the person who has died, such as sibling, half sibling, step sibling, third cousin, Great Aunt, and can often locate these deserving people though typical public databases.
I believe that good old snail mail is the best method for introducing yourself and requesting additional information to be submitted to courts, such as official ID's.  Because there is so much identity theft, some people usually do need assurances that the genealogist is working for the benefit of a court or legal representative.
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DNA AND INCEST - WILL FAMILY SECRETS BE DISCOVERED IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM ?

DNA is the most fascinating subject to me and I read articles that mention it in every category from True Crime, Animal Husbandry, and of course, Genealogy and Family History.

One night I decided to research DNA and incest.  Some very interesting websites and news came up and basically, there are many companies offering the test.  More often than an individual wishing to discover if they are a product of incest, a child is hospitalized and doctors order a DNA test to help diagnose the child who has a rare or strange disease, and up it comes that the child has double or missing DNA proving it is the product of incest!  incest can increase the chances of certain diseases.  (At the same time if a community that is free of certain illness, say a mental illness, intermarries, such as in the Amish, that community will stay free of that illness.  In some communities in which there were cousin marriages and close village marriages over time, such as is the case with many Eastern European Jewish people, certain diseases are amplified.  In order to no longer have those diseases some Jewish communities are actively testing for genetic diseases and avoiding marriages with others who carry it!)

In a college anthropology class I once learned that the subject of incest came under a theory of TABOO.  At the time scientists didn't think that there was much else wrong with incest but that so many cultures around the world made it taboo for their own reasons.  After all "primitive" societies were not savvy about DNA or genetics and attributed a lot of things to forces in nature such as Spirits or Gods.  Whole social structures were developed to avoid intermarriage with brothers and sisters, first cousins, parents, aunts and uncles, though we know that brother-sister marriage was practiced to keep blood lines (and inheritances) "true" in other cultures. Such was the case with Cleopatra of ancient Egypt, for instance.  I personally have met people living today whose parents were first cousins in Italy.  Missing or duplicate Genes did result in one of the sisters in such a family being developmentally retarded.

There are many articles on the Internet that ask the question of what a doctor should do if while treating a patient he or she discovers they are the product of incest.  What is the ethical and moral thing to do in 2014, this culture?  What about the people who DO NOT KNOW THEY ARE CLOSELY RELATED when they met and have children, such is the case with children born of sperm donations or who were adopted.  Makes you think...

Well, the scientists are also saying that SMELL has a lot to do with who we pick as a sexual partner, and well, we don't  feel attracted to people who smell too much like us!  There are also those who say that taking the contraception, "The Pill." cannot smell so well.

I'VE BEEN READING ABOUT THE HUMAN GENOME

and the question is, are we are who we are (and what we are) by NATURE or NURTURE and how so! I think that we often ask ourselves who we are like in our family, looks, personality, and character, talents and skills, psychology... and it seems that all these things may be a bit predetermined if the scientists are right...