Seeking Choctaw ancestry of Ella Josephine Miller

Dear Ms. Sawyer,

Thank you for posting your requests on History Hub!

If you have not already reviewed it, we searched the National Archives Catalog and located the Applications for Enrollment in the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898 - 1914 (also known as the Dawes Rolls) in the Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (Record Group 75) that includes file units and documents regarding Ella J. Miller, Elsie Roebuck, William Roebuck, and Betsy Roebuck as well as their descendants. Most of these records have been digitized and are available using the Catalog. For more information about the non-digitized records, please contact the National Archives at Fort Worth (RM-FW) at ftworth.archives@nara.gov.

We suggest that you review the NARA web page for Dawes Rolls as an overview of how to research that resource if you have not already done so.

We also located a series titled Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 (M595) and Records Relating to Applications for Identification as Mississippi Choctaw, 1901 - 1907 in the Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (Record Group 75), as well as the series Final Rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes, 1899 - 1914 in the Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior (Record Group 48), particularly its Choctaw and Chickasaw rolls file unit, that may have listings of Choctaw tribe members in Mississippi and Oklahoma. Some of these records have been digitized and are available for review via the National Archives Catalog. For more information about these records please email the National Archives at Washington, DC - Textual Reference (RDT1) at archives1reference@nara.gov.

We found another potential resource in the Population Schedules for the 1790 Census, the Population Schedules for the 1800 Census, the Population Schedules for the 1810 Census, the Population Schedules for the 1820 Census, the Population Schedules for the 1830 Census, the Population Schedules for the 1840 Census, the Population Schedules for the 1850 Census, the Population Schedules for the 1860 Census, the Population Schedules for the 1870 Census, and the Population Schedules for the 1880 Census in the Records of the Bureau of the Census (Record Group 29) that may contain information about Ella Josephine Miller and her ancestors in Mississippi. For more information about these records, please contact the National Archives at Washington, DC - Textual Reference (RDT1) via email at archives1reference@nara.gov.

You may wish to search Ancestry or FamilySearch for the U.S. Census. There may be a fee for using Ancestry. Instead, please check for access at your local library as many library systems subscribe to these sites, making them free for their patrons.

You may experience a delay in receiving an initial acknowledgment as well as a substantive response to your reference request from RM-FW and RDT1. We apologize for this inconvenience and appreciate your understanding and patience as we balance mission-critical work and the safety of our staff during the pandemic.  Please check NARA’s web page about COVID-19 updates for the latest information.

Please see our responses to your posts “Seeking records for wife & children of William Beams” and “Seeking records about Ezekiel Robuck” for links to additional resources that may be useful in your research regarding Ella Josephine Miller and her ancestors.

We hope this is helpful. Best of luck with your family research!