Companion to "Raised from the Ridge: The Craft of Early Mountain Cabins"
Your Appalachian ancestors left a record in every log they hewed and every stone they stacked. This companion gives you the tools to read those structures as genealogical evidence alongside the deeds, tax lists, estate inventories, and surveyor's notes that documented them. Includes a corner notching reference covering five major Appalachian styles and what each may indicate about a builder's origins, a cabin layout guide from single-pen through the I-house, a documentary record table showing where cabins appear in official sources and how to read that language, a cultural origins reference mapping five settlement traditions to their characteristic building features, and a working research worksheet for recording architectural observations and documentary sources.