MILLIONS OF NATIVE AMERICAN RECORDS ADDED TO GENEALOGY WEBSITE (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Monday, November 03, 2014, 12:15

The interior of a Native American tepee in the early 1900s. A large collection of material useful for tracing Native American ancestry is now available online. Photograph: Corbis

When about 5.2 million people identified themselves as having Native American or Alaskan Native ancestry on 2010 US census forms, some found the tally curiously low.

The apparent undercount had nothing to do with how the data was collected. In fact, millions of people across the country did not realise they had Native American blood, so surveys went unmarked.

To help people with Indian blood trace their roots, the Utah-based genealogy website Ancestry.com has partnered with the Oklahoma Historical Society to add more than 3.2 million Native American historical records and images to its website.

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