Category: Brooke County, VA
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Finding and evaluating published family histories is a vital part of tying your research to that of your predecessors.
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Using secondary sources, like the local histories published in the late 1800s and early 1900s, can be a mixed blessing. It depends how much the anonymous authors enjoyed puffing up their subjects!
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Going four generations back to find another line This surname can be found among my Sixteen great-great-grandparents. We have to go that far back to find the first Hale: Alice A Hale (16 Apr 1865 – 24 May 1942) Alice was the maternal grandmother of my grandpa Bob Callin. Alice’s first husband, Allen Greenlee, was…
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