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Sunday, June 21, 2009

One Little Clue Breaks Through

One Little Clue Breaks Through

This article focuses on an Illinois probate file for Michael Trautvetter from the 1860s and how a reference to a Kentucky mortgage lead to additional information on the family.

It originally ran in Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter on 9 June 2009.

Labels: probate, trautvetter

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