Tracing a Person Through Records

Nobody documented your subject. Institutions documented their own business, and the person appears as a by-product: in a census, a payroll, a deed, a docket, a passenger list. How to build a life from records made for other reasons, how to handle a name that changes spelling every time it is written, and what to do when the records were never made at all.

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