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8 page PDF research guide includes:
Guide for Three Counties, One Family: How to Research Any Appalachian County Split
When a family disappears from your tree right around a county formation date, the records did not vanish — the jurisdiction did. This companion gives you a repeatable method for tracing a family through any Appalachian county split. You get a worksheet for identifying which parent county held the records before the new county formed, a guide to spotting border-zone outlier records, a checklist for applying the FAN method across a county line, and a blank template you can adapt for any split your research runs into anywhere in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, or North Carolina.
What's Inside
- Five-state parent county finder reference table with exact sources for Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina county formation charts
- Border-zone outlier record interpretation guide with a five-signal table for distinguishing a recording error from a genuine family relocation
- FAN method checklist for running known associates across a county line in six steps
- Reusable blank split template with transition zone tracker, outlier record log, FAN-across-the-line tracker, and conclusion prompt, built to be refilled for every county split encountered
- Notes and search log pages