Southern Claims Commission: Difference between revisions

The most effective strategy is to search '''all''' the Southern Claims Commission records for '''everyone''' living in the same Southern county as an ancestor. Any particular ancestor is unlikely to have actually applied to the Commission, but he or she is more likely to have testified in behalf of an applicant, and is even more likely to be discussed in the hundreds of answers to questions in other people's testimony. This is an advanced, time-consuming strategy with a less than 50 percent chance of locating information about your ancestor. But you will learn about the way of life in the county where your ancestor lived.