Family History and Genealogy
When I was at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City in 2013, I found a book called Burke County, NC, Deeds Registered 1804-1813. Burke County’s deed books were destroyed in 1865. This book is an “alphabetical list of conveyances registered at County Court. . .and covers sessions of January 1804 through October 1813.” […]
A few weeks ago, I spent some time visiting the McClung Collection at the East Tennessee Historical Society in Knoxville. The first thing I looked at was the index to the First Families of Tennessee application files. I’ve written before about using DAR applications as a source, but this was a bit different, since I […]
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