Companion to "The Mound Beneath the Mansion: Reading Appalachian Land Before the Courthouse Records Begin"
When your ancestor's earliest deed sits in a valley where Cherokee towns stood for centuries, or when the land your family farmed was quietly consolidated out from under a Black community before the census could catch it, courthouse records alone will not tell you what happened. This companion is built for the researcher working the deep-history layers: the mound sites, the displacement records, and the oral accounts that courthouse clerks never wrote down. It gives you the analytical structure to work all three tracks at once, with repository guidance for each type of record and a worksheet built to hold findings across sources that rarely appear in the same finding aid.