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Census Records Can Identify the Children
Using census records to create a preliminary list of children for a particular ancestor! Continue reading
Coal Miners in the Family
Emergence The emergence of the Dayton Coal and Iron Company in then Smith’s Crossroads (later Dayton) in the early 1880’s influenced the life of my ancestors. They saw their small community explode from 250 to 5000 inhabitants within a short … Continue reading
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Parents of Pleasant Henry Leffew
Researching one’s family to identify the “begats” is an exercise of working backwards, generation by generation. Prior to the digitization of many records, information was gathered by visiting places where the records lives. Information was also gathered by correspondence with … Continue reading