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 === I Found the Person I Was Looking For, What Now? ===
-*Copy the citation below, in case you need to find this record again later
 *Use the age or estimated birth date to find church and vital records such as birth, baptism, marriage, and death records
 *Use the information found in the record to find land, probate and immigration records
 *Use the information found in the record to find additional family members in censuses.  Witnesses were usually family members
 *Repeat this process with additional family members found, to find more generations of the family
-*[[Texas Church Records| Church Records]] were kept years before counties began keeping records. They are a good source for finding ancestors before 1900
 === I Can’t Find the Person I’m Looking For, What Now? ===