Join Lisa Louise Cooke and guest Sunny Morton to learn four tips to learn how to use courthouse records in your family search and create a research plan.
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Ep. 89: October 2015
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In this episode:
News from the Blogosphere with Diane Haddad
Diane talks about Finding Clues in Ancestry.Com’s New Probate Collection.
Top Tips: Fab 15
Sunny shares courthouse research strategies from the Court Records class she developed for Family Tree University.
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Sunny’s Tips for pursuing courthouse research:
- Know what questions you hope to answer and where your data gaps are.
- Learn what resources exist to answer those questions.
- Read up on complicated record types like deeds and probates before you go research them in person.
- Make a copy of records and then digest and interpret what they tell you.
101 Best Websites for Tracing Your Roots
Dana McCullough, author of the Unofficial Guide to FamilySearch.org.
Resources:
From the Publisher’s Desk with Allison Dolan
Allison gives us a tour of her recommended resource the Family Tree Sourcebook ebook.
Your Host: Lisa Louise Cooke
Listen to Lisa Louise Cooke’s Genealogy Gems and Genealogy: Family History Made Easy podcasts in iTunes and visit her website for great research ideas, podcast episodes and videos.
Have fun climbing your family tree!
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