Tired of running into brick walls? Do you want to find genealogical connections to unknown cousins in the hamlets, towns and cities of your ancestors? Check out the Society for One-Place Studies website! One-Place Studies involve one or more researchers who attempt to learn the social history of an entire community by collecting all relevant information relating to a regions inhabitants and local institutions through use of a wide variety of sources traditional useful to the burgeoning genealogist.
One-place study researchers use sources such as census records, church records, courthouse records and local histories to gather information on all the inhabitants who lived in a particular community over a predetermined length of time. Some One-place studies cover periods from a century to over 300 years. The value of creating a One-place study of the community, county or parish of your ancestors is that you will eventually discover family and social connections between all the residents. Many may be surprising as well as help solving brick walls.
Happy Hunting!!!
http://one-place-studies.org/
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