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This is the eighth edition
of the standard work on the
Highland clans, the most accurate
account of Scottish
clans, tartans, and fighting
regiments ever published.
This particular edition features
an alphabetical list of
Scottish family names arranged
according to the
clans with which they were
associated.
An authoritative and beautiful
book, ranging across the entire spectrum of
Scottish history and culture, it is primarily an encyclopedia
of Scottish clanship, devoted, in the main,
to a discussion of the following subjects: Scottish
Highlands, Highland garb, the tartan, Highland
surnames and titles, Highland regiments, coats of
arms in the clan system, Highland chiefs and chieftans,
badges of clans and families, and lists of clan
septs and dependents. Nowhere in print is there as
complete an account of the Scottish Highlands in all
these aspects.
The work was originally published in 1908, with a
second edition in 1924 and a third in 1934. The late Sir
Thomas Innes of Learney edited and revised it from
the fourth edition (1952) to the eighth edition of 1970.
American Indian
Eastern Cherokee By Blood 1906-1910—
Volume VII Applications 21,881-26,099
Transcribed by Jeff Bowen;
2008; 5.5x8.5; 288 pp;
softbound. Order from the
publisher at: Clearfield Company,
Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill
Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.genealogical.com;
CF9927 ISBN:
9780806353890; $31.50 plus
$4.00 p&h.
Between May 1905 and
April 1907, the U.S. Supreme
Court authorized the Secretary
of the Interior to identify the descendants of Eastern
Cherokees entitled to participate in the distribution
of more than $1 million authorized by Congress. The
purpose of the authorization was to settle outstanding
claims made under treaties between the U.S. government
and the Cherokees in 1835-36 and 1845.
On May 28, 1909, Mr. Guion Miller, representing
the Interior Department, submitted his findings with
respect to 45,847 separate applications for compensation
(totaling about 90,000 individual claimants).
Miller qualified about 30,000 persons inhabiting 19
states to share in the fund. Ninety percent of these
individuals were living west of the Mississippi River,
but all of them were considered to be Eastern Cherokee
by blood, that is, descendants of the Cherokee
Nation that had been evicted from Alabama, Georgia,
North Carolina, and Tennessee in 1835. (Mr. Miller
submitted a supplemental report in January 1910 that
resulted in another 610 eligibles.)
Volume VII represents an additional 4,200 applications.
Mr. Bowen culled every shred of genealogical
value from the applications, which in every case
provides the application number, applicant’s name
and city of residence, number of other persons in
the applicant’s family, references to family members
found in other applications, and the disposition of
the application. In some instances, Mr. Bowen has
supplemented the core elements found in the abstracts
with references to other family members by
name, relationship(s), and dates of birth and/or death.
In a number of cases, these applications refer to the
origins of Native Americans other than Cherokee
(Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, Slave, etc.). Mr. Bowen
notes these connections in the index to each volume,
in parentheses, next to the individual’s name.
Eastern Cherokee By Blood 1906-1910—
Volume VIII Applications 26,100-30,199
Transcribed by Jeff Bowen;
2008; 5.5x8.5; 286 pp;
softbound. Order from the
publisher at: Clearfield Company,
Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill
Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.genealogical.com;
CF9928 ISBN:
9780806353906; $31.50 plus
$4.00 p&h.
Between May 1905 and
April 1907, the U.S. Supreme
Court authorized the Secretary
of the Interior to identify the descendants of Eastern
Cherokees entitled to participate in the distribution
of more than $1 million authorized by Congress. The
purpose of the authorization was to settle outstanding
claims made under treaties between the U.S. government
and the Cherokees in 1835-36 and 1845.
On May 28, 1909, Mr. Guion Miller, representing
the Interior Department, submitted his findings with
respect to 45,847 separate applications for compensation
(totaling about 90,000 individual claimants).
Miller qualified about 30,000 persons inhabiting 19
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