RLP 133: Daugherty Case Study Part 1

Nicole (1s):
This is Research Like a Pro episode 133, that Daugherty Case part one. Welcome to Research Like a Pro a Genealogy Podcast about taking your research to the next level, hosted by Nicole Dyer and Diana Elder accredited genealogy professional. Diana and Nicole are the mother-daughter team at FamilyLocket.com and the creators of the Amazon bestselling book, The Research Like a Pro a Genealogists Guide. I’m Nicole co-host of the podcast join Diana and me as we discuss how to stay organized, make progress in our research and solve difficult cases. Let’s go.

Nicole (45s):
Hello and welcome today. I’m Nicole Dyer. Co-host of Research Like a Pro, and I’m here with my mother accredited genealogists, Diana Elder. Hello.

Diana (55s):
Hi, Nicole. How are you doing?

Nicole (58s):
Doing well, recovering from SLIG. I studied advanced methodology and loved it. How are you doing?

Diana (1m 6s):
Same. Just trying to catch up after a week of intense study on Missouri, which was fabulous. And I ordered one of the books that they recommended and started reading that yesterday. So I’m so excited. The title is A History of the Ozarks volume one, the Old Ozarks, and the author is Brooks Blevins. And this is a trilogy and takes you all the way through the very beginning to current day. And I’m so excited because we have got a lot of family lines coming out of that region. It’s the Ozarks region, the Northern Arkansas-Southern Missouri area there, and that’s where our Frazier family, the Briscoes, the Clintons, you know, that whole line we’ve traced them right there to that area.

Diana (1m 50s):
So I’m kind of excited to learn the history really deeply and maybe get some more clues because they’re kind of hard to trace, records aren’t super plentiful in that area.

Nicole (1m 59s):
It sounds like your course on Missouri was really in-depth and really wonderful.

Diana (2m 5s):
Yeah, it was. And I’m going to be doing a few blog posts about that. We’ll probably do some podcasts about some of the things that I discovered and learned because Missouri is the center of the Midwest and so many of our ancestors passed through there, whether they stayed very long or not, lots and lots of families came through there on their way west and may have left some records. So I think it’ll be really interesting for all of our readers and listeners to learn more about Missouri’s records and they have fabulous repositories. I’m excited to let everybody know about the great resources there for research.

Nicole (2m 43s):
Oh great. It was wonderful being at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy virtually, but I did miss being there in person with you.

Diana (2m 52s):
I know that was fun. Last year, when we got to stay at the hotel and participate in everything and see all of our friends and meet new friends, maybe we’ll get back to that in another year or two.

Nicole (3m 4s):
I can’t decide if it’s easier to do the homework from the courses at home or when you’re there in person, because I think I got distracted by doing home stuff. And the homework for advanced methods was time consuming.

Diana (3m 18s):
I’ve heard that from other people have taken it, that it’s pretty intense.

Nicole (3m 22s):
It was neat though. We learned a lot and it was fun to practice the things we were talking about during the day, but I should have blocked off more time to work on their homework and not just going about my usual activities afterward.

Diana (3m 35s):
Well, I saw online that some people who were doing SLIG from home, they just told their families, I am in Utah this week, I am not here. And so they were just, they were just not being present in their home life, which, you know, if you can do that, but it’s kind of hard to, if you have little ones, to do that.

Nicole (3m 53s):
Well today we are talking about a case study of mine from Research Like a Pro study group last spring. And in this case study, I learned about Robert Daugherty and his wife, Sarah Taylor, and their children. So the objective of the project was to find the children of this couple. So let me read the objective: Who were the children of Robert Daugherty and Sarah Taylor? Robert Daugherty signed a marriage bond on 18, November 1784 in Craven county, North Carolina, for his marriage to Sarah Taylor, Robert and Sara were probably born about 1749 to 1769 and Robert died before November 8th, 1843 when he was listed as deceased in his estate appraisal.

Nicole (4m 45s):
So I didn’t have a lot of concrete, vital information for them when I started, I just had a marriage bond and an estate for Robert. So that’s kind of what I use to estimate some of their birth information. I just gave like a 20 year range and I had deceased by 1843, but I don’t know if it’s exact death date. So I just kind of had this general objective of who were their children.

Diana (5m 13s):
Yeah, it sounds like you were just trying to figure out this family a little bit more. And I think a lot of the times for our objectives, that’s how we have to go on is one or two records. Sometimes we have projects where we have a lot of that ground information or background records. We’ve been researching them for years and years, but in this case, you really didn’t. And so why were you picking this specific family? I’m just curious.

Nicole (5m 42s):
Well, I have been searching for the parents of John Robert Dyer for quite a while. He is our end of line Dyer ancestor. He was born about 1810 to 1813. We have a clue from oral family history that’s been passed down that his mother’s name was Sarah Taylor. Well, I never found any Sarah Taylors that were remotely connected to him in Hawkins county, Tennessee, and where he lived from 1830 until his death in 1880. So I started looking at the DNA, and Y-DNA did not have a super helpful clue. We started at 67 markers with testing my father-in-law and that showed a lot of matches with different surnames from Ireland.

Nicole (6m 27s):
We bumped it up to 111 markers to see how close these people really were. And the first two closest matches were with the surname Kennedy and they’re at a genetic distance of three and six. So for the first match, who’s a genetic distance of the three, if I click on the tip report for that and 111 markers, then it says that the probability that they share a common ancestor within the last four generations is 66%. And within the last eight generations, it’s 95%. And within the last 12 generations, 99%.

Nicole (7m 7s):
So I would say that’s pretty close. Eight generations though is a lot further than we have traced. So we don’t have John Robert Dyer traced about four generations from Robert Dyer, my father-in-law. And so there’s like four generations where they could be related. And we’re trying to find John Robert Dyer’s father. So it’s just kind of unclear. And then we upgraded to the Big Y 700 and my father-in-law created his own new branch on the tree. So he has no matches on the Big Y. So my conclusion, there was that either there are not enough Dyers who have tested from this branch or that there is a break in the Dyer surname line at some point, and maybe there was a Kennedy.

Nicole (8m 0s):
So it’s just kind of inconclusive from Y DNA until we can find some more people to test.

Diana (8m 6s):
Right.

Nicole (8m 6s):
So then I looked at the autosomal DNA results of my father-in-law and his brothers who tested. And it was able to find the cluster for John Robert Dyer, his descendants, and one of the clusters really closely connected to it, as I’m sure you know cause I’ve talked about this so many times, it was a cluster of matches who descend from a bunch of Daugherty’s and Taylor’s from Craven county, North Carolina, who migrated together to Warren and Butler county in Kentucky. So the ones that had the highest centimorgans were descended from this Robert Daugherty and Sarah Taylor couple, and as I had mentioned, we had family tradition that John Robert Dyer, his mother’s name was Sarah Taylor.

Nicole (8m 51s):
So when I saw this, Sarah Taylor married to Robert Daugherty, I thought maybe this is his mother. So I added my father-in-law’s Y DNA results to the Daugherty surname project. And they didn’t match at all. There were no similarities. So I concluded Robert Daugherty is not the father of John Robert Dyer. But then I wondered if this Sarah Taylor could have been the mother with a different father. So I wanted to investigate this couple to see if their timeline worked with that hypothesis. If maybe there was a separation or divorce or some kind of extra child listed on the census, that there was no information about later and just see who the heirs were in their family.

Diana (9m 33s):
Wow, that’s a really great example of how to use your autosomal DNA to solve something. You know, you were able to focus on that cluster, figure out the common ancestors and then hone in on researching them to make more discoveries. I think so many times we don’t know what to do with our autosomal DNA that far back. And so this whole project is a great example of having to dig into the documents to try to make sense of the DNA.

Nicole (10m 5s):
Right. Another complication from this Daugherty-Taylor extended family group is that they married each other frequently. So Robert Daugherty and Sarah Taylor were first cousins and their siblings also married each other too, which was crazy. So Sarah’s brother married Robert’s sister, and they were all first cousins. So there’s just a lot of DNA matches descending from all of these people. And it’s been tricky to sort out which ones to prioritize. So I focused on this couple first because some of the higher matches came from them, but they weren’t that high, not high enough to conclude anything. I think they were sharing like in the forties and fifties range of centimorgans

Diana (10m 49s):
Right. So theirs could be a lot of different relationships and it could even just be pointing to, of course, the parents of one of these people, right? And like you say, with the pedigree collapse and people marrying first cousins and brothers and sisters marrying each other, and there’s a common ancestor there somewhere, but which one is it?

Nicole (11m 9s):
Great. So I really needed to go to the documentary records to figure out what was going on with the family. So I started off by making that objective from kind of what I knew. And one thing I forgot to put in this objective was the place that Robert died, his estate appraisal and all of his estate records from after he died, were in Warren county, Kentucky. So he started off in Craven county, North Carolina, then all the Daugherty and Taylor families migrated to Warren and Butler counties, which are next to each other in Kentucky. So on my timeline, I had seen a lot of the family trees of the DNA matches.

Nicole (11m 51s):
And then I used those to find the original records and the sources that the people were using. So I just took those records and put them in my timeline and kind of figured out what people thought Robert Daugherty’s timeline looked like. So the first record I had for him was a marriage bond that I mentioned in the objective. And it was from November 18th, 1784 and Robert Daugherty signed a bond with bondsmen James Taylor, that he would marry Sarah Taylor. So of course the first thing I noticed was that this bondsman had the same surname as his intended wife Taylor. I figured they were probably related, and the family trees did show that there was a sibling of Sarah named James.

Nicole (12m 36s):
So I wanted to get the original record. I was looking at an abstract that was attached to somebody’s family tree. So I figured there was probably a digitized microfilm. So I went to the county, Craven county in North Carolina at the FamilySearch catalog and found their collection of the digitized marriage papers. And when I looked at those, I found a bunch of bonds and it was difficult to find the right one with the organization wasn’t clear, you know, if the arrangement of these records. So when I finally found the one that looked right from November 18th, 1784, it was completely chopped off.

Nicole (13m 19s):
The image was blurry and half of it was missing. And all that I could read from it was the bottom part that didn’t even say the date. It just said that Sarah Taylor of the county of Forsyth, and then had the legal use for the bond. And then at the bottom, it had the signatures of Robert Daugherty, actually his mark and the mark of James Taylor. So it didn’t have the first part of the bond, but I could read what the first part of that bond said from the abstracts. So going to see the original in the county courthouse would have been ideal, but looking at the digitized microfilm of it online, you know, usually it’s just as good, but in this case it was not a good microfilming.

Nicole (14m 4s):
It just had kind of messed it up. And so in this case, for me, the more helpful record was the derivative and that one had the date and just a little more detail.

Diana (14m 14s):
Yeah. And that is frustrating when you look at the microfilm and it’s not what you had hoped. So that’s a good example of using both the abstract and the original or what you can see of the original. But looking at this, it doesn’t seem like looking at the original would give you much more information. These bonds were pretty sparse. It’s not like they give you a parents in some states they did, but it doesn’t seem like he’s North Carolina ones or at least the set didn’t give any information of parents

Nicole (14m 42s):
Agreed. That’s why I didn’t prioritize getting that because they had the abstract and it could read the other bonds around it and see that they didn’t have anything else helpful at the very top.

Diana (14m 52s):
Right. It sounds like, and this one, the original would not have given you much more information.

Nicole (14m 58s):
So the book that had all the abstracts of the marriage bonds for Craven county was put together by Mary Jones Jefferies. And that was actually a very useful source because of the index. So I went to the index and I looked at other Daugherty and Taylor marriages around that time in the same county. And I found a helpful one. It was the marriage of James Taylor, who you will remember, it was the bondsman for Robert, and James Taylor was planning to marry Sarah Daugherty. And the bondsman was Robert Daugherty. So it’s like the same people here.

Nicole (15m 39s):
Yeah, no, it looks like Robert had a sister named Sarah Daugherty, possibly who married a James Taylor and they were all cousins and they were bondsmen for each other and they got married at first. They got married in January of 1784.

Diana (15m 53s):
That’s so interesting. So basically you’re going to have two Sarah Taylor’s one that was her maiden name of one that was her married name. That’s not confusing at all. Is it?

Nicole (16m 4s):
They’re both connected to the Daugherty family. So yeah. Yes. So this is interesting. So my next project will be to focus on that couple James Taylor and Sarah Daugherty to find out what happened to them. But like I said, the DNA matches were stronger coming from Robert Daugherty and Sarah Taylor’s family. So I started with them. So after looking at those marriage bonds, I put those in my timeline and I looked at census records that were attached in the family trees of the DNA matches. And there was a 1790 Craven county, North Carolina census showing Robert Daugherty spelled D O H E R T Y. And there were so many spellings of this name.

Diana (16m 43s):
I bet.

Nicole (16m 44s):
But the only that I usually use is D A U G H E R T Y, but you can also find it without the R so just Daughety or Daughty, and then you can find it Dougherty and with an H, without an H with an O and a U. So there’s a lot of different ones. There’s O U G H Doughety. So a lot of spelling options here. So I found the 1790 census with Robert and then one of his neighbors was Daniel Daugherty and Daniel was shown in family trees as Robert’s brother. So I noticed that. So then the next thing in my timeline was a deed in 1793, Robert Daughty, D A U G H T Y, to Thomas A.

Nicole (17m 27s):
Green, and he was selling some land in Craven county. Then I added in the timeline, some of the children that were put in the family trees to be Robert’s children. I put them in the timeline when they were born based on some of the census records attached to them in the trees. So one of those supposed daughters was named Mary Daugherty and she married Jacob Romans, supposedly. And so the 1850 census, you know, had her being born about 1796 in North Carolina. So I put that in my timeline. So that kind of was helpful for figuring out when the migration to Kentucky happened. And then the next thing on the timeline was the 1803 marriage bond, but it wasn’t a marriage.

Nicole (18m 10s):
It was a bond that Robert Daugherty could perform marriages. So I thought that was interesting. So this was the first record I found attached to the family trees in Warren county, Kentucky. And it was just saying that he was able to perform, celebrate and solemnize marriages in the county of Warren. And he is in regular community in the church to which he belongs. So I thought that was interesting. I studied that bond looking for any clues about which religion that was, and didn’t really come up with an answer. So I would have to do a little more research on that.

Diana (18m 45s):
So interesting. That is in a collection called Kentucky county marriages, but it’s not a marriage for him. That’s really an interesting record. And I think sometimes on the frontier who knows what religion they were, they could have changed religions. If there’s just one church out there, they all go to the same church, you know, not every denomination was represented immediately upon a new settlement. So hard to know

Nicole (19m 9s):
This was another record where had the spelling of his name was unique. This one was D O H E R T I E, Dohertie.

Diana (19m 19s):
Yeah. Well, that’s what it sounds like. And I think that gives you a good clue about how to say it. The D A U G H E R T Y. You know, because obviously they’re pronouncing those more, like it sound sounds Dohertie. Do you think this was Irish or these original Scotch Irish people? Maybe that’s what it sounds like the Daugherty.

Nicole (19m 40s):
Yeah. So after Robert had that bond to perform marriages, there were a lot of records with his name on it, where he’s performing marriages and some of those are marriages of his daughters. So the next record on my timeline was the 1808 marriage bond of John Beasley and Robert Daugherty for the marriage intended between John Beasley and Sina that Daugherty. Sina spelled S I N A. So some people had extrapolated her birth year as 1786 from this marriage bond because no permission was given, so it was assumed she was over 21 years old. And I think people just put in the year of 1786 for her birth.

Nicole (20m 22s):
So I didn’t really know for sure how to analyze that. I put that in my research plan to do a little research on the law and figure out what that meant. But I did notice that some people hadn’t put that. Hmm, interesting. And then just a few months later in 1808, still in Warren county, another daughter was married, Betsy, and I’m seeing this record. It didn’t say that Robert was her father, it just had him listed as one of the bondsman. And then for this marriage of Betsy in 1808, this one was not a bond. This one was an actual image where it has a list of all of the marriages performed by Robert Daugherty.

Nicole (21m 7s):
And it lists out the marriage of Betsy Daugherty to Phillip Roman in Warren county, Kentucky, September 15th, 1808. And it says the marriage was solemnized by Daugherty. Hmm. And then there’s a request for a license also with this record that says, Betsy was the daughter of Robert Daugherty. So this record actually stated that Betsy was Robert’s daughter, but some of the other ones didn’t really say, but people had inferred. And then next I had the 1810 census of Warren county, Kentucky, and I found Robert Daugherty on there spelled D O H A R T Y. And none of the neighbors were recognizable, but I did list their names and my timeline just in case.

Nicole (21m 49s):
The next thing on the timeline is the marriage of Mary Daugherty in 1811. And the bond between Jacob Roman and the state of Kentucky mentioned that Jacob Roman was over 21 years of age and Mary Daugherty, the daughter of Robert Daugherty, whose consent was this day acknowledged were planning to be married. And so some people had put that Mary was born in 1796. So if that was the case, you would have been about 15 or 16 when they got married. So that makes sense that the consent of the father was required. And if you’ll remember, we had the 1850 census of Mary and Roman, and it did put her birth year in 1796, so age 15 at marriage.

Nicole (22m 37s):
And this record was great because it also said that Robert was the person providing consent and so we can infer that he was the father,

Diana (22m 48s):
Right. And I just want to mention that these are interesting records when you look at them on the microfilm, they’ve been pieced together. So the image shows on this one, six little pieces of paper that have all been placed together and then filmed all at once. And so these kind of marriage bonds out of Kentucky are really fun to look at. And some of them are typed and some of them are handwritten. So you can tell they were just loose papers sitting in some file that when they microfilmed them, they put them all on the table and took the picture. So kind of fun to look at the film.

Diana (23m 28s):
Yeah.

Nicole (23m 29s):
And, you know, Warren county supposedly experienced a courthouse fire. And if you look at the edges of these papers, some of them are kind of dark. I wonder if they were slightly singed,

Diana (23m 38s):
It makes you wonder. And it’s so fun because out of one little piece of paper like this, you can get so much evidence and, you know, just one little piece of paper with all these words on it and help us to make connections with relationships and people.

Nicole (23m 52s):
Absolutely. And I really had to dig into that when I wrote the report and add in the laws and things about the marriage ages and consent so that I could infer and make connections about their age and things like that. All right, the next thing on the timeline was the 1820 federal census in Warren county and Robert Daugherty was listed. His neighbors included many people in his FAN club that I recognized, including his wife’s father, Moses Taylor, James Taylor, William Taylor, James Romans, Peter Romans, Phillip Romans, who was his son-in-law Jacob Romans, and some other people in his FAN club.

Diana (24m 32s):
Okay. So those people were not there on the earlier census or maybe they were, but they just didn’t show up as, as neighbors in 1810. So that makes you wonder if he was one of the first settlers that he went over and then wrote back to them and said, come to Warren county this is a great place to live. And then they eventually made their way because that’s how the migration happened. You know, somebody went on ahead and then others continued to come.

Nicole (24m 54s):
Yeah, it’s possible. And I haven’t looked up a lot of them in the 1810 census. So I would need to do that. But there was a family story that they all came together in a big troop, but it’s possible some came later

Diana (25m 7s):
Or maybe they came together, but they were not all living next to each other or maybe the order of that census was just taken, not by household. It’s just whoever came in at a certain time to be listed. I mean, we don’t know how those people are listed, but you could certainly look in the county and see if they were living there.

Nicole (25m 25s):
That’s a good question to ask who was there first? Well, there’s only a few records left for this family that I had at the beginning of the project. There was an 1829 witness of Peter Daugherty, who was assumed to be a son of Robert, he just witnessed a consent that Anne Berger could get married. And Anne’s mother was writing that. It was also witnessed by Fornafore Taylor. And I’m not sure if I was reading that right, is Fornafore, a name?

Diana (25m 56s):
Say that one more time.

Nicole (25m 57s):
Four-na-four.

Diana (26m 1s):
Well, if it is when I haven’t heard of before,

Nicole (26m 3s):
So I think I started again, this time it was spelled with an a, Fornafore, but then I found it again with an I, Fornifore. So I think that was the name, but it’s a weird one. I didn’t find a marriage of Peter just that he witnessed somebody else’s consent. And then the 1830 census, Robert Daugherty was still in Warren county, Kentucky. And I recognized all of his neighbors as Moses Taylor or James Taylor, Emily Taylor, James Romans, Moses Taylor senior. So there were a lot of people living right there. And then in 1840, which was quite a few years after all of his other daughters got married, I found that there was an Anna Daugherty who got married.

Nicole (26m 49s):
And so Anna married John Manning, and there was no evidence that this was Robert Daugherty’s daughter, but she was attached to him in the FamilySearch family tree. So I put it in my timeline. She would have been aged 36.

Diana (27m 1s):
Were there any other Daugherty’s that came over with Robert? Is he the only Daugherty there in Warren county?

Nicole (27m 8s):
There was a Daniel Daugherty, but I think he might’ve been in Butler county because they spread out between those two counties.

Diana (27m 14s):
Well, and you also have to wonder if she was a widow, you know, at that age.

Nicole (27m 19s):
Yeah. And when I gathered more data in the research phase, I found a lot more marriages, so it was a really tricky time to figure it out. This was just one that was already in the family tree. So that was kind of my starting point really was the family trees is on FamilySearch and if the DNA matches for this family and just what other people had gathered. So I just took these records that were attached to the tree and put them in my timeline just to see what I could find for a starting point. So the next thing was the 1840 census for Robert Dority, spelled D O R I T Y, and then the 1843 estate record. So he died sometime between 1840 and 1843.

Nicole (27m 59s):
I put out a few different things in my timeline from this estate. I put the fact that he died before 1843 in October, and then also in November, they had a sale of the estate and various people bought things from it like Peter Daugherty and P Romans, some various neighbors and Peter Daugherty was the administrator. And also I noticed some of the interesting things that were in his inventory, like a theological book, which fits when you think about the fact that he was authorized to perform marriages,

Diana (28m 33s):
Absolutely. And inventories can give you so many clues. And I learned so much about inventories at SLIG. We had an entire hour long course and had some homework on taking inventories from probate records and learning so much about the individual or the family from them. So, yeah. Good job finding that theological book. And also, I mean, they’re pretty well off you consider they’re out in Kentucky and they’ve got so many things. Right.

Nicole (29m 0s):
You know, one of the things I noticed is that they were also farmers. So in addition to being a Reverend or whatever, he was farming the land, so they had a lot of farming implements. Yep. And the last thing I put in the timeline was a record for Peter Daugherty in the Warren county circuit court records that mentions that he was the administrator of Robert Daugherty, deceased. And he recovered a debt from merchants that happened in 1844. And that’s all I had for my starting point, which is actually quite a bit of good information, but a lot of it isn’t tied together. It’s just kind of put together by other people. So although these are original records, the authored records, the family trees are the ones that them onto a family group.

Nicole (29m 46s):
And so I felt my job was to gather all the rest of the data that maybe was missing and write it up. And in order to prove what this family group really looked like with indirect evidence and correlating the information.

Diana (30m 1s):
Yeah. That was really good methodology. When you’re starting with family you haven’t been researching that’s a great idea to go out and just gather up what other people have put in their family trees, and then put that in your timeline and analyze it because you learn so much and granted, some of those might be incorrect relationships, but it gives you a starting point and then starts giving you a feel for the people and the place. So I think that’s a really good strategy.

Nicole (30m 27s):
Well, thanks. So the next step is to do locality research. And since I had not done previous research in Warren county, Kentucky, before I chose that county to study about and make a locality guide for, and I just focused on the time period before 1850, because that’s what I thought I would find the most useful information. So I went to the FamilySearch Wiki and the FamilySearch catalog, and I read and added some notes to my document for Warren county, Kentucky locality guide. I noticed that there was record loss in 1864 and that I county courthouse disaster destroyed most of the records. Now that was a statement from theFamilySearch Wiki, but I’ve learned that most of the records being destroyed means different things to different people.

Nicole (31m 12s):
So I checked in another guide and that one said that only some of the records had been destroyed. So I just decided, I would assume that most of them were still there and kind of do my own sleuthing in the FamilySearch catalog to figure out what was available. And I had already seen a lot of these marriage bonds and marriage books and court records that were attached to family trees. So I knew there was some stuff, not everything was destroyed in the county.

Diana (31m 41s):
Yeah. That’s really a good point that often we see something like courthouse destroyed or burned courthouse and we throw up our hands and give up, but we really shouldn’t do that because there can be things that were saved, things on the state level. There’s lots of ways to get around some courthouse loss and you really have to dig deeper to figure out what’s available. So I think it’s exciting that you found so much on FamilySearch really was available for this era.

Nicole (32m 6s):
Yeah. One thing I was hoping to learn more about during my locality research that I kind of came up empty on was, you know, more about church records from that time period because he was involved with this church and a Reverend, and there just wasn’t a lot. I did find a Kentucky Christian Church directory that allowed you to search by city or town. I just didn’t find a lot of good answers on that. I didn’t spend enough time. So that would be something to do on the next phase. I did find that there were a lot of court records, pre-1850 that I could look at. So I listed out all of those to think about when I was making my research plan and they were all digitized on FamilySearch and then land records.

Nicole (32m 51s):
I saw that there were deed abstracts and the surveyors book and various loose papers. So there were a lot of land records available. There was one entry for probate records in the catalog for the time period. And I found that there was a list of tax records in ancestry for this area. So that was a really useful tool as well, but it was only for 1800 to 1801 and then vital records. I found that there were a lot of marriage records. There weren’t any birth or death in this time period, but there were marriages, which I had already kind of seen being used a lot.

Diana (33m 30s):
That’s a good set of records. I love it. When I see all of those, the court, the land, marriages, probate, and even a little bit of tax. I mean, those are really your solid records for that time period. So that’s kind of exciting, isn’t it? When you see that many.

Nicole (33m 47s):
Yes. Well, and I love to see that they’re online too.

Diana (33m 51s):
Yeah, of course digitized. Yes.

Nicole (33m 54s):
I misspoke on the probate records. There were eight different categories of probate records and I must’ve not finished by locality guide, but there were some bonds and equity judgements and I put a lot of these intimate court section. There were Will books from 1821 to 1862. So even though there was a burned courthouse, they still had some of the Wills, the probate records were from 1797 to 1985. And they even had loose papers and estate settlements from that time period too. So I had already been kind of using some of those records in the timeline creation, so I knew they were there.

Diana (34m 29s):
Okay. Well, it sounds like you’ve got a really good basis here for your research planning now, you know, what’s available and you have a good background on the family. So next step research planning.

Nicole (34m 43s):
Absolutely. And I’ll just mention that the locality research step doesn’t have to only focus on just one county and it would be a good idea to focus on Craven county and Butler county and the state of Kentucky and us federal records. And just kind of think about all of those different jurisdictions that might be useful. This first phase of the research. I just wanted to focus on this one county and see what I could find there, but you could expand. And instead of the locality of many different places and plan to research in federal records as well.

Diana (35m 19s):
Yeah. And you know, a different phase of the research could be an entire project just based on trying to figure out Robert Daugherty’s religion and researching manuscript collections. And seeing if you could find more information about his activities as a Reverend or a preacher, but that could be a whole separate project, right. And then your locality guide would be on discovering repositories that could hold information. So there’s so many ways you can go with this research now that you’ve done this a little bit of background. So thanks for taking us through this project.

Nicole (35m 52s):
You’re welcome. And I was just thinking, you know, my locality guide was very basic and I think sometimes in study group people are worried that they need to complete it and get it all done and make it exhaustive. But I just put in the things that I thought would help me answer my research question. And I figured most of the children’s records would be available in Warren county. And so I just wanted to focus on that, and it didn’t want to make this a one 100 hour project. With high limitations that I was putting on myself, I just decided to focus on this one area, but keeping in mind that I wasn’t doing an exhaustive search, I was just doing one phase.

Diana (36m 30s):
Exactly. And if Robert Daugherty was your confirmed ancestor, then you maybe would want to go seek out a lot more things. But because you’re just working on this for a DNA connection, of course, you just want to do the basics to start with.

Nicole (36m 42s):
Yeah. All right. Well, we’re going to wrap this episode up for today and we’ll, we’ll talk to you guys again next week, about the second half of the Daugherty Case and what I did for my research plan and my log, what I found and my report. So we’ll talk to you guys again next week.

Diana (37m 2s):
All right. Bye bye everyone.

Nicole (36m 58s):
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