Today’s episode of Research Like a Pro is an interview with Lillian Wingate about researching in courthouses. Lillian is the president of the Bulloch County [Georgia] Genealogical Society, Education Director for the Georgia Genealogical Society, and the Genealogy & Local History Coordinator at the Statesboro Library. Lillian actively works with GSU interns on various projects. She is also in partnership with the local courthouses and community projects. Join us as we learn what resources might be available only at the courthouses and tips for researching there.
Transcript
Nicole (1s):
This is Research Like a Pro episode 275 Research in Courthouses. Interview with Lillian Wingate of Bulloch County Georgia 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 Genealogist professional Diana and Nicole are the mother daughter team at family Locket dot com and the authors of Research Like, a pro A Genealogist guide with Robin Wirthlin. They also co-authored the Companion Volume Research Like a Pro with D n A. join Diana and Nicole as they discuss how to stay organized, make progress in their research, and solve difficult cases.
Nicole (43s):
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Diana (57s):
Hi. Nicole. how are you today?
Nicole (59s):
I’m great. How are you? What have you been working on?
Diana (1m 2s):
Well, I’ve been working on my locality guide assignment for the study group project I’m doing on Clumsy Klein and I’m working on her fan club. So the people that I found who were also a patenting land around where she and her husband were living in Arkansas and found a new county, Fulton County, which became a county, it was split off from its parent of Isard, which is where Clems was living. But it’s really tricky because both Isard and Fulton were severely burned counties. So for the timeframe that I am researching about 1840 to 1870, there is hardly anything.
Diana (1m 42s):
There’s no probate, there’s no land, there are no marriage records, you know all the things we typically use. No court records, they just had a courthouse fire in 1870. So I’ve been just really scrambling trying to get together some locality items that will help. And luckily there are tax records and there are county histories and of course I have the land patents already track books. So anyway, that’s been kind of my challenge, trying to figure out what else I can add to this guide when there’s not much left for my specific timeframe.
Nicole (2m 20s):
Yeah, that is a challenge and also a good learning opportunity to to try to work through those to challenges of a burned county.
Diana (2m 30s):
Absolutely. So. you know, we look at other jurisdictions and I might look at other counties around it. The problem is this whole area had a lot of record loss, so all of this northern Arkansas area was pretty badly burned, mostly because of civil war and and post civil war contention.
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Diana (4m 14s):
Well we are really thrilled today to have a guest and we have Lillian Wingate here with us who is going to tell us all about the work that she does in Genealogy. So Lillian, tell us a little bit about what you do in Bulloch County. Georgia.
Lillian (4m 34s):
Hi Diana. so I have worked at the Statesboro Bulloch County Library for nearly eight years now. I’m the Genealogy and local history Coordinator and four years ago I became a Regional employee. so I now work at all six Libraries in our region. I teach Genealogy classes, assist patients all across the us. I work with the local university, Georgia Southern, also with the probate courts and several outreach organizations. I’ve also started the Bulloch County Genealogical Society back in 2017 and we formed and elected officers in 2018.
Lillian (5m 21s):
So most Genealogy that happens in Bulloch County and the surrounding counties, I’m kind of the center of it.
Diana (5m 30s):
That is so awesome. Well, and I met you at N G s, the National Genealogical Society Conference this spring in Richmond and I was so glad you introduced yourself to me because as you know from listening to the podcast, you know that I have some bullet county Ancestors, particularly my John Royston who disappears there. And so I am excited to learn more about Bulloch County records from you and just whatever you can can tell us more about Bulloch County.
Nicole (6m 2s):
I love that you have started the Genealogical Society there in your county too. That’s neat. I worked with our society here for a few years and it was really neat and also we’re always so thankful for everyone who volunteers too.
Lillian (6m 17s):
Yes, I love volunteers. We were just starting to get off the ground in March of 2020. We Hosted the Georgia Genealogical Society and everything shut down the next week due to Covid. So we’re still trying to get back on our feet with that. But we have several members in other states who are helping us with digitization projects, which is wonderful.
Nicole (6m 42s):
So great. Well tell us more about what kind of projects you have worked on. Have you done some things with like probate courts?
Lillian (6m 50s):
Yes. Several of the projects that I have had interns with have helped with that. One of my first interns to help with this was actually during C O I D. So Savannah Savage Johnson began abstracting a book of last will and testaments that a previous researcher had begun. Both of us had to become very familiar with the clerk’s handwriting for that time period, which was quite messy to be honest, which all of us have seen. And this is still an ongoing project to abstract these particular book of last Will and Testaments. I have a another intern this past summer who helped me digitize some books that were microfilmed but they were very poor copies and you could not read everything clearly.
Lillian (7m 38s):
So she was able to re-scan the books and another intern has helped in a bordering county in Candler County. We retrieved, I, I can’t say the number ’cause I’m not quite sure, but over 250 pounds worth of books from the attic of the courthouse. Candler County was completely skipped when microfilming was being done and there is no index of the records that are available there. So my intern, Cameron Wilson helped retrieve these books and begin an index and we’re hoping that family search can come help us digitize these records once they’re gathered altogether.
Nicole (8m 20s):
Oh my goodness. I can’t believe that Candler County was skipped when everything was microfilmed. I just, I’m surprised and the addict does not seem like a very good place to store those.
Lillian (8m 32s):
No, I had talked to the probate judge several years ago and he had mentioned they were up there and it took me years of kind of trying to find the right intern and someone to help and I actually did a lot of the retrieval myself. So we had to climb up about a 16 foot ladder that was straight and they had put a new HVAC system and we had to climb around all of that and it’s, it’s been a i I went to school for anthropology and archeology as well. So this is one of my things that I love to do where I get my hands dirty a little bit.
Diana (9m 8s):
Oh my lord, that cracks me up. I can just make sure you guys on that ladder and then you’d have these big heavy books that seems so dangerous to have to climb back down with the books.
Lillian (9m 18s):
The first time we went up we were kind of MacGyvering things. We had a sheet and ropes and I was the only one who could tie knots. so I wrapped up the books and the sheet. I did knots around them to hold them and we did a pulley system lowering them down.
Diana (9m 36s):
Well that’s brilliant. That’s so smart. And no lives were lost in this effort,
Lillian (9m 42s):
Right? No, and and no books dropped either.
Diana (9m 46s):
Oh my goodness. That’s awesome. That is so interesting that you mentioned that they had completely remissed when Family Search was out doing the original digitizing.
Lillian (9m 57s):
I’ve noticed that all of the Georgia counties created after 1900. None of those are on family search. Many of them were microfilmed by the Georgia Archives and they’re only available at the Georgia Archives but not on family search. Oh. But in this case Candler County was never microfilmed at all.
Diana (10m 17s):
Well I’m sure family Search will be thrilled to come out and get that microfilming done once you’re ready for them.
Lillian (10m 23s):
I’m counting down the days
Diana (10m 25s):
So, you have been there working at the Bulloch Library for eight years. Was there someone before you who had started this work or what was going on before before you took over?
Lillian (10m 38s):
There were three past Genealogist in this position, but they were reference librarians and did the work kinda part-time. But Retta Keenan Register was the local Genealogist for decades here and many researchers probably recognize her name. She did the early North Carolina Census records and she was the d a r registrar in Washington DC. She published a book that was an abstract of early deeded records last Will and Testaments marriages. She has over 40 publications for Bulloch County.
Lillian (11m 20s):
But her book, which I refer to as the the Bible for Bulloch County, it was published in 1985 near the time of her death. And it seems that they just took what she had and published it as is so the last will and Testament book, it just ended on page 100. So the rest of the book was never indexed, abstracted or anything like that.
Diana (11m 46s):
Oh, how interesting. That’s a wonderful story about her and I just think of the amazing work that people like her have done to get these books out there, you know, over 40 works. That’s incredible. And I love using books like that. You know, someone who’s gone in and done an inventory of the records or you know, read all the probate and given us a nice abstract. Those are just such a great way to get started anytime you’re working in a new county and looking at your family. so I really appreciate all the people that have done that. So how interesting though that the her last book just kind of leaves off in the middle.
Diana (12m 27s):
I hopefully there’s a introduction at the beginning or a preface that explains,
Lillian (12m 32s):
Unfortunately it does not. That was something that a lot of the works are just trying to figure things out as you go. We just reprinted the book last year and we’re only able to add a few pages. Some of the abbreviations we did have listed in the new copy.
Diana (12m 53s):
So what year does it go through?
Lillian (12m 55s):
It starts at 1795, which actually predates Bulloch County and goes until about 1855.
Diana (13m 6s):
Nice. So maybe my John Roon is in that book.
Lillian (13m 11s):
I have checked, unfortunately he’s not
Diana (13m 14s):
Cute. I was hoping you were going to do a big reveal. so I found him. Well
Lillian (13m 21s):
He’s not in that book but I feel that there is another place that he could possibly be listed.
Diana (13m 26s):
Ooh, well you have my permission to call me and tell me.
Lillian (13m 32s):
I certainly will
Diana (13m 33s):
Anytime day or night That would be to find out what happens to this guy. He ends up there, I think it’s 1815, he gets, he has the land grant and then he disappears. So Oh my. Well that’s so fun to learn about Al Barreta Keenan Register. I love her name too. That’s an awesome name.
Lillian (13m 55s):
Yes, she is one of those that she was known by her name and even though she divorced early on, she kept her married name and her maiden name. Hmm. And I use her family tree, her books as examples in my classes. I take care of her grave as well. She’s kind of a kindred spirit for me. Aw,
Diana (14m 18s):
That’s so neat. Well I am glad that you pointed her out and I am completely going to go check out her works and see what, what I can learn from her.
Nicole (14m 29s):
What a great idea. Well let’s talk more about Bulloch County records. It seems like a lot of them have been digitized according to the Family Search Wiki. Can you tell us more about that?
Lillian (14m 40s):
Yes. Most of the books were microfilmed in the late 1950s, about 1958 I believe. However, none of the loose records were microfilmed and most have never been digitized. We are not quite sure if it was just a policy at the time that they did not include these. There was an index, a large book in the courthouse at the time that just recorded names and what box or folder the loose records we’re in. And I have gone back and compared the copies on family search with the book that is in the courthouse today and found that they are very different.
Lillian (15m 22s):
I, an updated version was probably done in the 70 or eighties and they have almost twice as many names listed and additions and corrections. So if you’re only looking at the Family search Wiki and their copy, you’re not getting all of the records, you’re not seeing all the names that are mentioned and you still have to go to the courthouse to see those originals.
Nicole (15m 48s):
Wow, that’s really helpful to kind of imagine what’s online versus what’s in the courthouse. So it’s really helpful to imagine like all these loose records and just different things that you wouldn’t see in the books. And I have some experience with that looking at some collections where there are the loose records scanned and comparing that with what’s in like the probate book and there’s just so much more if you can get like the probate packet with all the loose papers, it’s amazing how many more people are mentioned and, and just so much more data.
Lillian (16m 20s):
I have solved so many mysteries and finding the original records, the loose ones, they have 161 boxes of records there that are available. Wow. so I digitize anytime I’m looking and I, I keep those digital folders available at the library but I can only do so much. So that’s another one that I’m hoping family Search can help come and help us with.
Nicole (16m 47s):
Yeah, totally. It’s amazing how much they can go and do with their microfilm and I think I’ve mentioned this on the podcast before, but my husband’s aunt has been in Tennessee at one of the Courthouses there just working on digitization projects for family search. So it’s really cool that people are volunteering to do that.
Lillian (17m 7s):
It’s amazing that what they can do.
Diana (17m 11s):
Well I just have a quick question for you. When you were talking about, you know, the difference between what’s available on site and what family search has scanned and has digitized, you know, how would somebody go about finding out if there’s a lot more, I mean you’re obviously a wonderful resource, but would you recommend that you just call the county courthouse? Do you call the county historian? I mean, how would you find out more about what is available at the courthouse besides just going there in person?
Lillian (17m 46s):
I have found that many probate courts, the clerks themselves have compiled list of what they have there to help the new clerks coming in so that there’s a easy accessible list to show what they have. A lot of the clerks in the surrounding counties will tell you to call me for what they have. It’s really a hit or a miss to be honest. Some Courthouses do a wonderful job of knowing what they have and then sometimes they just say there’s the door and you know, go look for yourself. I try to make a a guide for myself every courthouse I visit and I take photographs so that I can blow them up later to see the titles on all the books.
Lillian (18m 36s):
And I make sure to make a quick list anytime I visit and then I go back to type those up and have like a locality resource for each courthouse.
Diana (18m 46s):
Oh, that’s wonderful advice. Well what are some of the record collections that maybe have been missed or overlooked? And we’ve talked a little bit about probate in court, but are there some other types?
Lillian (18m 60s):
Yes, I found this out just a couple years ago that there was another former Genealogist who did research about a hundred years ago. Honestly most of her notes are from the 1920s and thirties. But at that time she frequent Courthouses so much they would let her take the books home with her to do research and when she passed away most of those books were still at her house and they were not returned. And another researcher found them in an estate sale decades later he actually had to purchase some of the superior court minutes in order to simply return them to the courthouse.
Diana (19m 41s):
Oh my goodness, that’s a good story.
Lillian (19m 45s):
And I have found researchers over the years who had copies of her notes where she referenced a book, but she did not put the source where they came from. And through tracking her notes down, I have found that several of the books have been rebound and what they used to be called are not what they’re called today. So that’s another thing that you really need to pay attention for. Books that are over 200 years old may have been rebound and have a new title on them.
Diana (20m 17s):
You know, this just really speaks to doing such good research on the locality and the place that you are trying to Discover some new materials because you just gotta dig deep. And when you were talking about contacting, you know, somebody at the courthouse, I thought you might have to make a lot of phone calls before you finally get to the person that actually knows something because the first person you call may not be like you, you know, but there’s somebody like you hopefully in every area.
Lillian (20m 48s):
Yes. It’s really a hit or a miss. Dr. Debbie Abbott, she actually recommended that if I am going to a new courthouse, even if I’ve called take brownies or take cookies. So that is one advice I pass along.
Nicole (21m 7s):
So are the records difficult to access in Bulloch County?
Lillian (21m 11s):
They’re very easy to access and the clerks are extremely friendly. If you are going to do research and you at least have an idea of what you’re looking for, they can usually help you and direct you. There is a book that probably weighs over 50 pounds on a center table that is a general index book and one of the former clerks went through and just recorded every name, every book that it is in box, all kinds of information. And so that is gonna be your best friend when you go there. One of the clerks, Michelle, she will also tell you if you don’t know what you’re looking for, to please contact me, see if I can come help.
Nicole (21m 56s):
Oh,
Lillian (21m 58s):
They do have some books there that that is the only copy. There are two books called Previously Unrecorded Marriages that cover over 150 year period and it has an index in the front and then it is copies of the original marriage licenses, but they were never recorded in the books. So one of the judges there has been very gracious and allowed me to scan at least the index so that I have a copy of it and can look. But they have many books that the clerks put together there that are not available online or anywhere else.
Nicole (22m 36s):
Oh wow. It really shows that there is so much more at the courthouse than there there is online. And that’s something that we always wonder every time we’re researching in a new county, I wonder what they have at their courthouse. And that’s so cool about the book that the clerks made with the index. So in order to access that index book, is that something you have to go there or could you reach out to the clerks or
Lillian (23m 2s):
The clerks can look through it if you ask them specifically. I have a digitized copy of the index as Well that I can do lookups for. They do not like people to take books home anymore,
Nicole (23m 17s):
But I wonder why
Lillian (23m 19s):
Exactly. But they do let me bring my book Scanner in and some things that they know would take a little bit more time. They’ve allowed me to bring to the library, which is just two blocks away to scan here in one day and then take them back.
Nicole (23m 33s):
Special privileges for you? Yes. You’re highly trusted.
Lillian (23m 37s):
They, they know where I’m at and they, one time the clerk was pulling a book off a shelf for someone and the binding fell off and she said if I had been there, she knew I would cry. Oh. So those are my babies and I take care of them just as well as they do.
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Diana (24m 47s):
It’s a rewarding way to spend time outdoors while helping others find the burial locations of their loved ones. So Lillian, my next question, what about these books and records? Are they clearly labeled, if you pull one off the shelf, will you know what’s inside of them?
Lillian (25m 5s):
For the most part, all of them do have labels that at least indicate the type of records that are inside and the dates for those. Some books I have realized that had new bindings, they used to be just last Will and testaments like numbered one through 10. But today the bindings are labeled one A through I think 20 A, and they actually include the annual returns in that same numbering system. So that can be a little bit confusing if you think you’re looking at last will and testaments and then you see annual returns. So always look at the inside cover of each of these books as well.
Lillian (25m 49s):
One big discovery that I made recently was in their minute books. The first one actually starts and says it is Volume 10, the second one is Volume four A, and then all of the books after that do not even have a Volume number. They’re only by years. And this book four A has more last Will and Testaments listed in it, fully documented than any other minute book I have seen. And it is the only minute book that does not have an index.
Diana (26m 22s):
Oh my goodness. Isn’t it so frustrating when you pull out a book like that without an index? Well, it just really speaks to the fact that you’ve got not let the cover keep you from looking inside and looking through it and trying to Discover what is there, you know? Exactly. You just have to remember that these books were kept by clerks and some clerks were better at being more logical, I guess, in how they recorded things. And sometimes maybe they ran out of a certain type of book and used another book to record it. Do you think?
Lillian (26m 55s):
Yes, I, I have seen some evidence of that where one book filled up faster and they do have a notation in the book to go to this other book to look for more records, but if you don’t happen to look through that page, you’re not gonna know that it kind of started in another book. so I jump around and look through different books quite frequently there.
Diana (27m 19s):
So interesting to think about how these are organized and what you might find just like a treasure hunt. It really is.
Nicole (27m 27s):
Yes. This is so enlightening because we’re learning all sorts of different tips for searching and just how to get to that reasonably exhaustive search by really being treasure hunters, like you said.
Lillian (27m 39s):
Yes. One thing I, I might mention, speaking of the clerks during the Civil War when Sherman’s army was coming through, we have found a letter stating that the clerk, David Beasley, knew that Sherman’s army was coming and to avoid the records being destroyed, he took them and buried them out in his yard. Not at his house, but just in in the yard. And that actually saved all of the records or nearly all of the records.
Diana (28m 8s):
Well that’s wonderful. Love that story. He remember to dig ’em up too, so that’s good.
Lillian (28m 13s):
Yes, I have actually found little bits of dirt between some pages before too, so,
Nicole (28m 20s):
Oh my gosh. Well we’ve already learned so many great tips. What, what additional advice would you give someone planning to do research in a courthouse?
Lillian (28m 30s):
Always have a research question in mind when you’re going to a courthouse. I can’t tell you the number of times people just go to see what’s there. You really need to have an idea of what you’re looking for. Find out what records and collections are available. I usually always go to the family search wiki first to see what’s available and then print out that list and take it to the courthouse to s compare them, see if something else might be in the repository. Do call and find out what you can and cannot take inside of a courthouse. Some are much more restrictive than others. When you’re comparing those lists, if there is something that you found on Ancestry or Family Search, print it out and take it to see if it compares and is the exact same record at the courthouse.
Lillian (29m 22s):
I have found many instances where the book the clerk wrote was, you know, single copy, but they had the original that had the signatures of the testator and things like that. And of course if you find what you’re looking for, I recommend photographing it and make sure you cite the source. I use CamScanner personally and I can create folders, I can make citations, it helps straighten out the images, even if they’re of a odd size. That is my best friend at a courthouse to cite and record all of my sources.
Nicole (30m 1s):
So is Cam Scanner a smartphone app?
Lillian (30m 3s):
It is. It is an app and also a website. It’s available for iPhone and Android. And years ago I had just been to a courthouse and the next day I actually dropped my phone in a puddle and thought that I had lost everything. Oh no. I logged into the website and because I had used it with wifi open, it backed everything up to the cloud and I had all of the images and the citations of my records.
Nicole (30m 32s):
Hurrah.
Lillian (30m 33s):
Yes, there is a free version and then a paid version for more storage, but it is amazing.
Nicole (30m 42s):
Wow. I’m looking at their website now and it’s really cool that they also have the O C R.
Lillian (30m 46s):
Yes, they do. And they will also straighten images, which is really neat in the books that the pages are kind of folded and it will turn images into Word documents and then for original images that might be incursive, you can save them as PDFs or JPEGs.
Nicole (31m 5s):
Wonderful. What a great tip. Thank you.
Lillian (31m 8s):
You are welcome.
Diana (31m 9s):
Yes, Thank you. I’ve had a couple different apps for scanners, you know, they all are different, but this sounds like a really good one. so I, I have a quick question about your citations. How detailed do you get on your citations when you are going through a book? Do you just do it really, really good the first time or do you go back and edit it at all?
Lillian (31m 31s):
Usually if I am finding things from one particular book, I’ll start a new folder and make sure to cite that book. And then the notes on the consecutive pages, I’ll just list the page number and who is in the record that I’m documenting. If it is a mix of, you know, several types of records jumping from different books, I’ll do a full citation in the notes each time.
Diana (31m 54s):
And I’m sure you’ve learned by experience that if you don’t do that you never remember where you got that copy.
Lillian (31m 60s):
Correct. Yes. And I love that the notes will also pull up on the website So, you can see them there and then I can copy them in to my, if I’m writing an article or proof argument or something, I can just copy them and it’s that easy.
Diana (32m 19s):
Wow, you have a really great system. We’ve learned a lot from you. So neat. It
Lillian (32m 25s):
Probably helps. I’m a touch O c D, so I label things like crazy.
Diana (32m 31s):
That is why you’re so good at what you do and why everyone there loves you
Lillian (32m 35s):
Thank you.
Diana (32m 36s):
I think we all have to have a bit of O C D in us to do Genealogy research, right? Yeah, yeah,
Lillian (32m 42s):
It certainly helps.
Diana (32m 44s):
Well, before we close, is there anything else you would like to tell us about? This has just been so fun to talk to someone in the know, you know, I have loved this conversation.
Lillian (32m 56s):
People are welcome to reach out to me if you have any questions. I have a Facebook group for our library that I try to post all kinds of free webinars and events and you can send questions even if it is a different courthouse in Georgia. I try to travel all different parts and get experience at different Courthouses. So sometimes if you know someone else who’s been there, they can help you and give you a guide. So definitely reach out to local Genealogy societies if you’ve never been to an area, find out who might be able to give you a quick crash course of that courthouse.
Diana (33m 36s):
That is such good advice. Well, Lillian, it has just been a pleasure to have you on the podcast and to learn more about your work and Thank you for all that you do from those of us with people in Bulloch County and are hoping that you’ll still find the magic there to all those who just are listening and now have a better idea of what is in a courthouse. So our show notes will have some information, some contact information for you and your library so anyone can go to those and find out more about Lillian. So Thank you so much and I hope to see you again in person at a conference someday
Lillian (34m 13s):
Thank you. I look forward to it as well.
Diana (34m 15s):
Okay. Bye-bye everyone. We’ll talk to you next time.
Nicole (34m 18s):
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Links
Statesboro Regional Public Libraries – https://strl.info/genealogy/index.php
Facebook group for Statesboro Regional Library Genealogy – https://www.facebook.com/groups/SRPLgenealogy
Cam Scanner App and website – https://www.camscanner.com/
Lillian’s Contact info: For questions about Bulloch County, Georgia, email Lillian at lillianw@strl.info or call me at 912-764-1340.
Research Like a Pro Resources
Airtable Research Logs Quick Reference – by Nicole Dyer – https://familylocket.com/product/airtable-research-logs-for-genealogy-quick-reference/
Research Like a Pro: A Genealogist’s Guide book by Diana Elder with Nicole Dyer on Amazon.com – https://amzn.to/2x0ku3d
Research Like a Pro Webinar Series 2023 – monthly case study webinars including documentary evidence and many with DNA evidence – https://familylocket.com/product/research-like-a-pro-webinar-series-2023/
Research Like a Pro eCourse – independent study course – https://familylocket.com/product/research-like-a-pro-e-course/
RLP Study Group – upcoming group and email notification list – https://familylocket.com/services/research-like-a-pro-study-group/
Research Like a Pro with DNA Resources
Research Like a Pro with DNA: A Genealogist’s Guide to Finding and Confirming Ancestors with DNA Evidence book by Diana Elder, Nicole Dyer, and Robin Wirthlin – https://amzn.to/3gn0hKx
Research Like a Pro with DNA eCourse – independent study course – https://familylocket.com/product/research-like-a-pro-with-dna-ecourse/
RLP with DNA Study Group – upcoming group and email notification list – https://familylocket.com/services/research-like-a-pro-with-dna-study-group/
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