Companion to "Three Peoples, One Mountain: The Settlers Who Built the Appalachian World"
The Scots-Irish, German, and English families who came down the Great Wagon Road left different kinds of records and settled in different patterns. This companion walks you through the record types most likely to document each group: Presbyterian registers and Ulster arrival lists for Scots-Irish lines, Lutheran and Reformed church records and Shenandoah Valley deed abstracts for German families, and county court files and land grant chains for English settlers tracing inheritance under primogeniture. It covers the key repositories for each record type, how to read mixed-settlement tax lists that place all three groups on the same page, and the migration pathway analysis strategies that help you trace a family from Pennsylvania south through the backcountry and into the Appalachian interior.