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Court of Pleas and Quarterly Sessions

James L. Douthat

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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Bastard Bonds

Bastard Bonds

James L. Douthat

Every genealogist begins their research looking for birth-death-marriage records. Once these are found, then they begin to want to fill out the details of the information on each of the individuals in their charts. There is so much more to a person than when they are hatched-matched-dispatched. Who is the person? What was their life really like? What did they feel? Think? Value? Now if we reach this point, then we have to dig a lot deeper into the lives of our ancestors. We go to the courthouses, libraries and…

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