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area (city, town, or county) where the person was last living to find
more clues?
What records could you search at a state level to see if the person or his family was living there? What records could you search at a regional level to see if more information could be found? Remember each state where the individual is known to have lived should be searched on larger databases to first determine counties or towns where the individual is known to have lived. You must get to a smaller jurisdiction since records are rarely kept at a state-wide level. Once you have located the county, what could you do next, according to this lesson? If you said you could search land and property indexes, probate indexes, town and county histories, or city directories, you did very well. How does the genealogy rule to Go from the known to the unknown apply in your own family research? How did a systematic approach help in the research for Simeon Smith�s family? Several large databases were mentioned in Chapter Four. Can you list three of them? |
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now I hope you have been prompted to take out a Research Planner
from last semester. Start making a list of responses to the questions
on the previous page and the ones that are on this page. Write down
ideas that come to you directly onto your planner.