Re: Mary Bailey [widow of William Bostwick] of Wilkes & Morgan Co GA
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Re: Mary Bailey [widow of William Bostwick] of Wilkes & Morgan Co GA
Larry Hunt 3/01/12
Family bibles that survive are helpful.
Locating death records and wills give you some idea of where folks may be buried.
Find the cemeteries where ancestors are buried and if the tombstone managed to survive your visit the data may be sparce with year of birth and date of death only.Sometimes you are lucky to find day, month, and year for birth and death.
Also if you look into the petit and grand jury proceedings of the day sometimes they will list the individul by age.
Church minutes sometimes give the age of individuals you are looking for if you know what faith they followed.
Militia and military records; in particular the affidavits submitted about service in American Revolution, War of 1812, and the various Indian Wars sometimes you see the birth year mentioned and the date called up to serve and when discharged.
Land lotteries had rules that individuals had to take the oath their name, date of birth, where born, how long they lived in a given area to qualify for a draw for new land.
If you are lucky to find a newspaper in the area at a give time the deaths were sometimes full of details for that individual.
Agriculture society as well as other professional groups had organizations created as guilds which would have some information about the individual.
Remember that all of our ancestors left a paper trail. We family researchers just have to look at the right trail.
Keep in mind the five "W" format while doing your research.They are WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, and WHY.
Hope this is helpful.Good luck with your research.
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Re: Mary Bailey [widow of William Bostwick] of Wilkes & Morgan Co GA