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6 Tips for Successful Courthouse Genealogy Research - Are You My Cousin?

Adventures in Genealogy - Why Go To The Courthouse

Ancestry.com Wiki - The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy

The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy is a reference book published by Ancestry Publishing. The first edition was published in 1984 and was edited by Arlene H. Eakle and Johni Cerny. A revised edition, edited by Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, was published in 1997. The current edition, the third, was published in 2006 and was also edited by Szucs and Luebking. In 2010, Ancestry.com digitized the content of The Source and made it available in wiki format as one of the foundational sources for the Ancestry.com Wiki. Each chapter has been broken into one or more series of articles. This wiki is a free service of Ancestry.com.

Arkansas Research, Inc. - Guide to Family History Research: Courthouse Research

Challenging the Courthouse - Tracing Lines by Ruby Coleman (April 2001)

Courthouse Research: How To Do

Article by Linda Haas Davenport.

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Article by Michael John Neill.

GenealogyMagazine, Episode 1: Courthouse Research (YouTube)

"Courthouse Research," the first episode of GenealogyMagazine, a YouTube "how-to" series for genealogists.

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By Judy G. Russell