finding ancestors in the Dawes Roll

[flyingfysh]

I made some discoveries today. I have had reason to believe for some time that I have Choctaw ancestry, with my probable great-great-grandfather being on the Dawes Roll. But I have never found any official record of my great-grandfather anywhere, except on my grandmother's Social Security application. But nowhere else, until now.

I was looking over records of a court case from 1902 concerning my great-great-grandparents application to admit my great-great-grandmother to the tribe by intermarriage (she was white, but had been married 34 years at the time; the application was approved). There are several pages here, and in one of them I found a handwritten list of names which looked like it was probably the names of the kids - and there was my great-grandfather. I looked over the other records more closely, and found a typewritten version of the same list in the court records. And elsewhere, in a faded, hard-to-read handwritten section of the Dawes Roll, I found him again! So it appears that I have three ancestors on the Dawes Roll. The names were there all this time, and somehow I hadn't noticed.

I am trying to find any official record at all of my great-grandfather's kids (which would include my grandmother), but that may be much harder to find. His wife died, and he gave away the kids and disappeared.