Companion to "Whisky and Wills: Appalachian Justice as Genealogical Gold"
County court minute books are among the most name-rich records in Appalachian genealogy, and moonshine cases are among the most name-rich entries in those books. Most researchers stop at the defendant and never follow the bondsman, the witnesses, or the geographic details hiding in a single docket line. This companion puts those records to work for your research, showing you how to extract every genealogical thread from a court docket entry and trace it into the broader archive of county courthouse records across the Appalachian region.