Researching the Five Civilized Nations with Billie Stone Fogarty & Rick Fogarty

Professional genealogists Billie Stone Fogarty and her son Rick Fogarty join Jane today to talk about researching the Five Civilized Nations. Billie and Rick will tell the history of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole tribes in the Southeastern U.S. and their removal to Oklahoma in the early decades of the 1800s. Find out how Billie and Rick research for clients looking to establish Native American ancestry, why people want to establish NA ancestry, how DNA comes into play and what types of records they use.  

Find Billie and Rick here: http://heritagetrackers.com/

Rick Fogarty is a professional genealogical researcher and lecturer in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is a third-generation genealogist with deep Oklahoma roots and a citizen of the Muscogee Creek Nation. He specializes in Native American, adoption, and DNA and forensic genealogical research.