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Using Archives to Fill the Gaps in Your Ancestor's Timeline

Melissa Barker

Jul 5, 2017

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Content

Introduction

1m 45s

Timelines

7m 43s

Between the Census

3m 2s

What Records?

10m 9s

Why Archives?

7m 41s

Unique Records

3m 57s

Vertical Files

4m 37s

Manuscript Collections

6m 57s

Loose Records

5m 22s

Scrapbooks

5m 3s

Letters and Diaries

5m 19s

Filling In the Gaps

2m 26s

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About this webinar

Do you have gaps of missing information in your ancestor's timeline? Using archives and the records they hold can fill in those gaps. Learn about unique records that are found in archives that will help to tell your ancestor's story and add information to your ancestor's timeline.

About the speaker

Melissa Barker

Melissa Barker is a Certified Archives Manager and Public Historian currently working at the Houston County, Tennessee Archives & Museum where she has been the first and only archivist for the pas...

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