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Presenter: C. Ann Staley

We sometimes get caught in a researcher's "rut"; we start looking at the same type of sources and forget that there are a lot of different types of sources to be scoured for information and clues to our ancestors. This presentation will take a look at a variety of these sources, what they contain, and where they can be acquired. Various valuable, but often overlooked, resources are discussed, with examples and sources for help in locating them. Some of the included topics are County Historical & Biographical Publications; Agriculture and Industrial Census Schedules; School Records (yearbooks and school enumerations); New Deal Programs; Periodicals and PERSI (PERiodical Source Index); Prison Records; Library catalogs - Public and Private; Estate Records; and Social Networking (Facebook, YouTube, etc.).