Companion to "Appalachian Food Preservation"
Smokehouses, canning logs, pantry tallies, and winter diaries left behind a quiet archive of domestic evidence that formal genealogical records rarely capture, and this companion shows you how to find it and read it. The Appalachian Food Preservation Research Companion walks you through nine preservation record types and the specific genealogical evidence each one yields, from hog counts in farm account books that confirm kin clusters to women's handwriting in daybooks that documents household labor and literacy. Each record type includes field notes on what to look for and where these materials are most likely to survive in Appalachian repositories.