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8 page PDF research guide includes:
Guide for Where the Bark Keeps the Names
Tannery daybooks, payroll stubs, company store accounts, and millrace deed easements reach people courthouse records miss entirely. Seasonal bark peelers, women trading butter and cloth for credit, landless laborers anchored to a hollow by a single payroll stub; these families appear for a few seasons and then vanish from the census and the deed index. The industrial record is often the only archive that ever held them.
What's Inside
- Record type reference table covering tannery daybooks, company store ledgers, payroll stubs, bark contracts, millrace easements, boarding records, accident reports, and business tax assessments — with genealogical value and common gaps for each
- Research strategy guide with eight named methods including the guarantor trail, store deduction household analysis, FAN club cluster tracking, and the chestnut blight window
- Repository and access guide covering the Digital Library of Appalachia, North Carolina State Archives, West Virginia State Archives, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Kentucky State Archives, and the Library of Congress Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
- Two-page research worksheet with entry log, FAN club cluster tracker, and cross-record triangulation log
- Search log and notes pages