Nothing guessed.
Every value traces to a card.
The Archives' transcriptions, made searchable
The National Archives and its digitization partners transcribed the original enrollment cards by hand — names, ages, roll numbers, post offices. We index those transcriptions exactly as written. Where a value was never transcribed, we leave it blank and link you to the card image rather than guess.
Families, not just names
Enrollment happened by household. Each name here connects to its family's census card — including the 75,505 fathers and mothers recorded on the cards, a generation deeper than the rolls themselves — and the card links straight to the original scan in the National Archives Catalog. What you find here, you can verify there.
The testimony behind the names
Application jackets hold the interviews, affidavits, and decisions behind each enrollment. Where a family's jacket survives and is digitized, we link it to their card.
Doubtful. Rejected. Still part of the record.
Tens of thousands applied and never received a roll number — files marked Doubtful or Rejected, lives cut short before approval. Most indexes leave them out. We include every one the Archives has transcribed, plainly labeled, because their stories are part of this history too.
Growing past the Five Tribes
Eight more record sets, each with its own search section: the Eastern Cherokee (Guion Miller) applications of 1906–09, the California enrollment applications of 1928–33, the 1896 Five Tribes applications and case files, and agency records of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa, Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota, and Northern Cheyenne — names and numbers exactly as the Archives keyed them, every record linked to its digitized pages. More join as the Archives publishes them.