A diversity of documents together with oral histories can help to build contextual knowledge about the family you are researching.  This section includes documents from the Dawes records; Choctaw census roles; U.S. Censuses; newspaper articles; Freedmen Bureau records; and a death certificate.  Generating a timeline is an equally important part of your research methodology.The primary documents highlighted in this section Sarah Carr-Wight-Hines, a Choctaw Freedman, her parents and former enslavers.  When examining all available documents of Sarah Hines, we learn that she was enumerated as a Choctaw Freedmen on the her Dawes Enrollment #4725.  Additional information comes from the primary documents between the years 1900 to 1939.