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Wet Ash and Flood Mud
You pull open the safe expecting the deed to the house, the only photographs of your grandparents, the birth certificate nobody made a copy of.
Aug 17
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Misty Hamilton Smith
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The Unbroken Thread of Mountain Mercy
Tracing the Ancestral Roots of Appalachian Mutual Aid
Aug 16
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Build Your Appalachian Research Toolkit
Every family line hits a specific wall eventually.
Aug 13
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From the County Jail to the State Penitentiary
How to trace Appalachian ancestors through criminal records
Aug 10
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Fire and Be Damned
Tracing Appalachian Ancestry Through the Regulator Movement
Aug 8
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24:46
Your New Member-Only Area Is Here
Great news!
Aug 6
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The Bison Trails of Appalachia
Pre-settlement pathways that became migration roads
Aug 5
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The Casket in the Attic
Appalachian Death Customs and the Records That Survived Them
Aug 2
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July 2026
The Poor School Laws of Appalachia
How indigent children were educated, and the lists that kept their names
Jul 28
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The Salt That Built Malden: What Kanawha County's Buried Ocean Left Behind
How one Kanawha salt town left a family trail in the records
Jul 22
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William Logan of Knox County, Kentucky (c. 1765–1824): What the records and the DNA Actually Prove
Ancestor Deep Dive Edition
Jul 20
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Gone to Texas: Tracing the Appalachian Families Who Left the Mountains for the Plains
The land grants, tax rolls, and church letters that mark where your mountain ancestors went after 1830
Jul 19
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