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How a 200-Year-Old Family Feud Solved a Brick Wall Problem

December 5, 2015 by Legacy Tree Genealogists Leave a Comment

In a recent case we worked on, a dispute over land led to identifying the parents of an individual and solving a family brick wall problem. We share this story with permission to illustrate the importance of thorough searches - not just in vital records, newspapers, and censuses - but in land, probate, and court records. Our client asked us to trace the ancestry of his Boykin family, and research had stalled with a direct-line ancestor named William T. Boykin of Southampton County, Virginia, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Court Records, Land Records Tagged With: American records, brick wall, court records, family history, genealogists, land records, legacy tree, probate, research, solved

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