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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.

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.

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 - American Indian Genealogy

Strategies and records to learn about American Indian ancestors including contents, uses and availability of major sources, and identifying tribes.

Guide to Tracing Your American Indian Ancestry

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