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Anglo American Legal Tradition has digitized 1000s of the earliest cases on their [http://aalt.law.uh.edu/ChanPro.html free website]. | Anglo American Legal Tradition has digitized 1000s of the earliest cases on their [http://aalt.law.uh.edu/ChanPro.html free website]. | ||
==== Genealogical Value ==== | ==== Genealogical Value ==== | ||
Coldham evinces that it is probably | Coldham evinces that it is probably "a sufficient recommendation of the value of chancery records in a genealogical context to say that it is often possible to come across a five-generation pedigree not only compiled by contemporary litigants and witnesses but authenticated by a master in chancery."<ref>Coldham, Peter Wilson. "Genealogical Resources in Chancery Records," ''Genealogists’ Magazine,'' Part 1 in Vol. 19, No. 10 (1978):345-347; Part 2 in Vol. 20, No. 8, page 257-260.</ref> Primary information about migration, marriage, births, deaths and kinship are all here. So also is evidence of their social relationships and aspirations, land ownership, business transactions and wealth or lack thereof. The court of chancery did not deal with criminal cases but did handle disputes arising from criminal cases. | ||
==== Chancery Calendars, Indexes and Abstracts ==== | ==== Chancery Calendars, Indexes and Abstracts ==== | ||