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Researching the family history of potential slave owners part three

This article is part of the continuing case study into the roots of former slave Jefferson Clark of Leon County, Florida. To catch up on the...
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Researching the family history of potential slave owners, part two

This article is part of the continuing case study into the roots of former slave Jefferson Clark of Leon County, Florida. To catch up on the...
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Researching the family history of potential slave owners, part one

This article is part of the continuing case study into the roots of former slave Jefferson Clark of Leon County, Florida. To catch up on the...
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Do you write up your genealogy research?

After planning, your genealogical research will progress through various stages. The first is the actual physical collection of evidence, from...
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NEW BOOKS: The Civil War Draft in Maryland - Lists of Drafted Men

NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT:The Civil War Draft in Maryland: Lists of Drafted Men, 1862-1865, by Michael HaitVolume I: 16 Oct 1862-23 Jun 1864Volume II:...
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Summary of the Jefferson Clark online case study

The purpose of this continuing case study has been a demonstration of the use of online records to research an African-American family: Jefferson...
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The Civil War through the eyes of its soldiers

During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration and its employees under the Federal Writers’ Project interviewed surviving...
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Information is only as good as the source

Every document that we discover in our genealogical quest holds information. Even when we discover that the information is relevant to our research...
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Continuing your education with online genealogy videos

Not all of us can afford to trot around the globe to attend all of the national and regional genealogy conferences and institutes in order to...
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Elizabeth Shown Mills’s newest Quicksheet for citing your sources

Genealogical Publishing Company has released the newest in Elizabeth Shown Mills’s QuickSheet series, QuickSheet: Citing Online African...
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