Companion to "She Blessed the Water and Set the Bone: How to Find Appalachia's Folk Healers in the Records"
Granny midwives and folk healers kept Appalachian families alive for generations, but they rarely left their names in the records genealogists know how to find. This companion is built for the researcher who has a name from family memory and needs to know where to take it next: which records exist, where they are held, how to ask for them, and what to do when access is restricted. It covers state licensing registers, Frontier Nursing Service delivery logs, coroner dockets, church minutes, and DNA cluster analysis. A ready-to-send archives letter, exact newspaper search phrases, and a research worksheet take findings from oral history toward documented evidence.