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What Now? Helpful Contact Information for Your Search
by Christina Berry

I frequently get genealogy requests from visitors to this site. More often then not the question is, "It seems I've gotten as far as I can on my own. Now what?" In this article I've tried to compile contact information for some of the more frequently asked questions.

If you have a Dawes roll number and would like the full file on your ancestor you can get this at the National Archives in either Washington D.C. or Fort Worth, Texas.

National Archives and Records Administration
700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20408
Phone: 866-325-7208
E-mail

The Fort Worth facility maintains the retired records from Federal agencies and courts in Arkansas, Louisana, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Street Address:
501 West Felix Street, Building 1
Fort Worth, Texas 76115-3405

Mailing Address:
P.O. 6216
Fort Worth, Texas 76115-0216
Phone: 817-334-5515
E-mail: ftworth.archives@nara.gov
Fax: 817-334-5511

If you have your Dawes Roll information and would like to join the Cherokee Nation you will need to contact the Cherokee Nation Tribal Registration Office.

Cherokee Nation
P.O. Box 948
Tahlequah, OK 74465-0948
Phone: 918-456-0671
E-mail: registration@cherokee.org

If you are still trying to get started with your research you can get genealogy help from the Cherokee Heritage Center.

Cherokee Heritage Center
P.O. Box 515
Tahlequah, OK 74465
Phone: 918-456-6007
E-mail: genealogy@cherokeeheritage.org

If your Cherokee ancestors are from the North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia area you will want to contact the Eastern Band of the Cherokees for help with your genealogy research.

The Eastern Band of Cherokees
Qualla Boundary
P.O. Box 455
Cherokee, NC 28719
Phone: 828-497-4771