Family Historians Can Use These Unconventional Archives To Track Poor Ancestors

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FamilyHistoriansCanUseTheseUnconventional ArchivesToTrackPoorAncestors

There’sacertainsenseofwonderthatcomes withdiscoveringyourroots,soit’sunsurprising thatfamilytreesareatopicofinterestamong manypeople.

Accordingtoablogseries releasedbyMyFamilyPattern, estaterecordsandlanddeeds aresomeofthebestsourcesof namesandvitalstatistics.

Unfortunately,such archivesmaynotbe availabletoyouif yourancestorswere poorordidn’town land.

Intheblogs,RickT. Wilsonexplores unconventional sourcesandindirect evidencethatfamily historiansmayuseto identifyyourancestors.

Thesesources includepension applications, poorhouserecords, debtorrecords,and civilcourtcases.

Whenusedin conjunctionwith autosomalDNA matches,thesepieces ofdatacanbeusedto trackdistantbranchesof familytrees.

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