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Rich Resources for Poor Ancestors

Gail Blankenau
Oct 12, 2018
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Introduction
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Research Your Location
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Receipts
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Case Study
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Time to be Creative
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A Census Lesson
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Is it the Same Man?
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Summary
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One of the most difficult problems in genealogy is researching our more obscure families—the ones who didn’t hold office, avoided the city clerk and were generally so poor we assume they didn’t leave a paper trail. Yet, we can find a surprising amount of information on our less fortunate forebears. “The poor have always been with us…” and various entities throughout our history have provided relief to them. If we focus on records in a particular locality at a given time period, we may find the nugget that solves our research problem. 

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Gail Blankenau
Gail Blankenau is an experienced genealogist, speaker and author. Her publications include articles in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register and The Genealogist. She is also a contributor to Family Chronicle and Internet Genealogy m
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