The Men Who Followed the Saw
Following the families who left the farm for the logging camp
Appalachian Genealogy & History
Researching the people, places, and history of Appalachia.
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Wet Ash and Flood Mud
You pull open the safe expecting the deed to the house, the only photographs of your grandparents, the birth certificate nobody made a copy of.
The Unbroken Thread of Mountain Mercy
Tracing the Ancestral Roots of Appalachian Mutual Aid
Build Your Appalachian Research Toolkit
Every family line hits a specific wall eventually.
From the County Jail to the State Penitentiary
How to trace Appalachian ancestors through criminal records
Fire and Be Damned
Tracing Appalachian Ancestry Through the Regulator Movement
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The Bison Trails of Appalachia
Pre-settlement pathways that became migration roads
The Casket in the Attic
Appalachian Death Customs and the Records That Survived Them
The Poor School Laws of Appalachia
How indigent children were educated, and the lists that kept their names
The Salt That Built Malden: What Kanawha County's Buried Ocean Left Behind
How one Kanawha salt town left a family trail in the records
William Logan of Knox County, Kentucky (c. 1765–1824): What the records and the DNA Actually Prove
Ancestor Deep Dive Edition
Gone to Texas: Tracing the Appalachian Families Who Left the Mountains for the Plains
The land grants, tax rolls, and church letters that mark where your mountain ancestors went after 1830
On Trial: The Class Books That Tracked Appalachia's First Methodists
A mountain road, a midnight conversion, and the ledgers that tracked who belonged
Brine, Barter, and the Deed Books of Goose Creek
How a sixteen-year gap between a sale and its filing exposes the paper trail behind Appalachia's salt trade
Two Miles from Nowhere: How Russell County Became the Road West
How a Clinch Valley county became the road west, and the 1787 tax-list alias that broke open one family's record trail.
The Fence Laws: How Livestock Shaped Mountain Boundaries
Open range vs. closed range, and the court records they left behind
The Witch Stick Knew First: How Mountain Families Found Their Water
The forked stick, the family well, and what the deed books never recorded
The Appalachian Barn: Architecture as Genealogy
Cantilever barns, crib barns, and family land use
The Plain Paper Trail: Finding Quaker Ancestors in the Appalachian Mountains
How Friends Carried Their Records Over the Ridge
The Great River of Hogs
Drovers' Roads, Stock Stands, and the Records Your Family Left on the Buncombe Turnpike