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=== Strategy for Finding Ancestors === | === Strategy for Finding Ancestors === | ||
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 (only 0.2 percent of population), but he or she is more likely to have testified (2.3 percent) about an applicant, and an ancestor is even more likely to be discussed (about 10 ? percent) 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, and much about relationships between his or her neighbors. | 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 (only 0.2 percent of population), but he or she is more likely to have testified (2.3 percent) about an applicant, and an ancestor is even more likely to be discussed (about 10 ? percent) 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, and much about relationships between his or her neighbors. | ||
=== Steps of Using SCC Records === | === Steps of Using SCC Records === | ||
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:E. Close the PDF. | :E. Close the PDF. | ||
'''Step 3. | '''Step 3. Copy data for each claimant in the county in''' '''''Southern Loyalists in the Civil War.''''' | ||
:A. Get access to Gary B. Mills, ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30591123&referer=brief_results Southern Loyalists in the Civil War: The Southern Claims Commission]'' (Baltimore: Genealogical Publ., 2004). [FHL book 975 M2s]. | |||
:B. In this book find and copy all data provided for <u>each</u> claimant in the county. | |||
'''Step 4. To identify which NARA microfiche to purchase, use an appropriate NARA descriptive pamphlet (DP) and follow instructions at the St. Louis County Library’s Internet site.''' | '''Step 4. To identify which NARA microfiche to purchase, use an appropriate NARA descriptive pamphlet (DP) and follow instructions at the St. Louis County Library’s Internet site.''' | ||
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'''Step 6. Search each county claimant’s file for information about your ancestor or his neighbors.''' | '''Step 6. Search each county claimant’s file for information about your ancestor or his neighbors.''' | ||
'''Step 7. Search related Commission journals, agent letters, and miscellaneous letters at the FHL.''' | '''Step 7. Search related Commission journals, agent letters, and miscellaneous letters at the FHL.''' | ||
=== Resources === | === Resources === | ||
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