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Court of Pleas and Quarterly Sessions

In doing genealogical research, we often ignore the sources where we will find the information because we think it is too difficult to locate. The Court of Pleas and Quarterly Sessions as some states call them, is one of those sources. In every state and every county, there is an organization established to handle the day to day matters of that area. It is called by different names, but the actions are pretty much the same. A world of important records is found in their minutes with notations that are…

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Adoption Records

Adoption Records and Bound Children

In nearly every family, there are children that come up missing or we cannot identify where they came from. As always, it is important to know the time period when this occurs as the laws change from time to time. In the early part of this century, the counties had little or no money for care of orphans or indigent families. So these counties fell back on an old German method of taking care of children called bound children. Sometimes a family was unable to care for their children, or…

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