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== Guild Records == | == Guild Records == | ||
These records identify persons belonging to a guild. These often identify family members who frequently assumed the same trade. Records of merchants, craftsmen, tradesmen, skilled laborers, and persons bound by indenture to serve others for a prescribed period to learn an art, trade, or skill. Records can be used as a source to support relationship linkage found in metrical books. They are considered by genealogical researchers to be as important as metrical books. Records begin in the 1500s and continue into the second decade of the twentieth century. | These records identify persons belonging to a guild. These often identify family members who frequently assumed the same trade. Records of merchants, craftsmen, tradesmen, skilled laborers, and persons bound by indenture to serve others for a prescribed period to learn an art, trade, or skill. Records can be used as a source to support relationship linkage found in metrical books. They are considered by genealogical researchers to be as important as metrical books. Records begin in the 1500s and continue into the second decade of the twentieth century. | ||
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