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• 6 Tips for Successful Courthouse Genealogy Research - Are You My Cousin?

• Adventures in Genealogy - Why Go To The Courthouse

• Ancestry.com Wiki - The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy

  The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy is a reference book published by Ancestry Publishing. The first edition was published in 1984 and was edited by Arlene H. Eakle and Johni Cerny. A revised edition, edited by Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, was published in 1997. The current edition, the third, was published in 2006 and was also edited by Szucs and Luebking. In 2010, Ancestry.com digitized the content of The Source and made it available in wiki format as one of the foundational sources for the Ancestry.com Wiki. Each chapter has been broken into one or more series of articles. This wiki is a free service of Ancestry.com.

  • Ancestry.com Wiki - Overview of Court Records

    This article originally appeared in "Court Records" by Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, FUGA, Loretto Dennis Szucs, FUGA, and Arlene H. Eakle, Ph.D. in The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy This wiki is a free service of Ancestry.com.

• Arkansas Research, Inc. - Guide to Family History Research: Courthouse Research

• Challenging the Courthouse - Tracing Lines by Ruby Coleman (April 2001)

• Courthouse Research: How To Do

  Article by Linda Haas Davenport.

• Genealogy Guys Learn $

  The best online genealogy courses, videos and webinars from The Genealogy Guys, for beginners, intermediate and experts. Including: Basic Genealogical Research; Intermediate Genealogical Research; Using the Social Security Death Index (SSDI); Using Libraries’ and Archives’ Catalogs Effectively; Wills and Probate Packet; U.S. Military Records; International Classification of Diseases; Swedish Household Examination Books; Introduction to Anglican Parish Records in England; Clues from the Graveyard; Dower Law: A Case Study; Five Reasons the Records Aren't in the Courthouse; Develop Your Ancestor's Story; Seven Essential Research Strategies, and so much more.

• Genealogy.com - Court Records

  Article by Michael John Neill.

• GenealogyMagazine, Episode 1: Courthouse Research (YouTube)

  "Courthouse Research," the first episode of GenealogyMagazine, a YouTube "how-to" series for genealogists.

• Legacy Family Tree Webinars - The Fair Court: Records of Chancery Courts

  By Judy G. Russell