Now go to the Dawes Rolls and search for William Rogers. I use my CD on “The Five Civilized Tribes – Dawes Rolls Applications” because everybody is listed alphabetically with estimated dates of birth, Tribal affiliation, degree of blood, Roll numbers and their Census Card Numbers. With Census Card numbers, you can discover every member of the family that was living together when the Dawes application was taken (1896 to 1902).
This CD covers Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole Tribes and the Adopted or Assimilated Delaware, Osage, Shawnee Tribal members as well as white spouses (Intermarried Whites) and Assimilated FreedMen (ex-slaves that had been adopted by the various Indian Nations). The CD covers everybody who was listed on any application, even if they were a dead parent, or the applicant was Rejected, found Doubtful, or even Stricken from the final Roll.
This copyrighted CD is available for $27 on my web site at
www.CherokeeByBlood.com/cd.htm
If you are fortunate, you may find a copy of the Final Dawes Roll on the web. It is 650 pages long and is listed by Tribe and Dawes Roll Number. It will drive you nuts or blind while searching for each person named William Rogers, then researching the entire Tribal listing for matching Census Card numbers to see who their family members were. Just imagine your local phone book being listed in numerical sequence instead of alphabetical order.
Findings - William Rogers listed on the Dawes Rolls (25 individuals)
This data is in the following order - Tribe, Application Type, Name, Age at time of Application, approximate Year of birth, Sex, Blood quanta, Census Card #, Roll #, District of residence
CHER BB Rogers William C 51 1849 M 1/4 6199 14781
CHER BB Rogers William R 42 1858 M 1/4 5445 13038
CHER BB Rogers William H 37 1863 M 1/8 3172 28707
CHER BB Rogers William G 35 1865 M 1/4 4236 10205
CHER BB Rogers William 32 1870 M 3/4 9205 21015
CREK BB Rogers William P 28 1872 M 7/8 24 89
CHER F Rogers William 26 1874 M NR F1505 4123
CHER FD Rogers William 26 1874 M FD806
CHOC BB Rogers William F 25 1875 M 3/32 1774 5030
CHER BB Rogers William O 25 1875 M 1/4 4655 11159
CHER F Rogers William 25 1875 M F584 1470
CHER FD Rogers William 21 1879 M FD652
CHER FRR Rogers William 21 1879 M NR FRR963 NR
CHER BB Rogers William P 20 1880 M 1/4 4747 11384
CHER BB Rogers William M 15 1885 M 1/8 831 22687
CHER BB Rogers William E 11 1889 M 1/16 2963 23699
CHER BB Rogers William P 9 1891 M 1/4 1035 2827
CHER AD Rogers William E 6 1894 M 3/8 10469 31111
DEL OS Rogers William E 6 1894 M 3/8 OS88 NR
CHER BB Rogers William L 5 1895 M 1/16 2829 7093
CHER BB Rogers William 4 1896 M 1/2 1880 4976
CHER BB Rogers William Jr 3 1897 M 1/8 6199 14782
CHER M Rogers William Penn 3 1903 M FULL M2405 2684
CHER M Rogers William E 2 1904 M 1/16 M2878 3328
CHOC BB Rogers William F Jr 1 1899 M 3/64 1774 5031
Start ‘thinning the herd’ by rejecting those that are way too old or way too young. I typically use a spread of ± 10 years because the estimated dates of birth are ESTIMATES based on an ASSUMED average date of application of 1900.
Those William Rogers born about 1869 to 1889 (1979 ± 10 years)
CHER FD Rogers William 26 1874 M FD806
CHOC BB Rogers William F 25 1875 M 3/32 1774 5030
CHER BB Rogers William O 25 1875 M 1/4 4655 11159
CHER F Rogers William 25 1875 M F584 1470
CHER FD Rogers William 21 1879 M FD652
CHER FRR Rogers William 21 1879 M NR FRR963 NR
CHER BB Rogers William P 20 1880 M 1/4 4747 11384
CHER BB Rogers William M 15 1885 M 1/8 831 22687
CHER BB Rogers William E 11 1889 M 1/16 2963 23699
Now I have only 9 ‘likely suspects’ and I am going to solve this puzzle with ‘forensic genealogy’ or a ‘family fingerprint’. I will compare the names of his parents, spouses, and any children born before the application date.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
