Posts in May 27, 2022

When any index takes you to an image in a set of images or a page in a record book, look at images and pages before for additional images or additional pages. Ancestry.com’s index to Missouri probate records indicated that there were a few pages for a man named George Trask who died in St. Louis in the 1860s. Scrolling beyond the initial ones indicated there were well over 100 images. Whenever I locate a land record for a relative in the local office’s land record books, I look at the deeds recorded before and after the one I found in case the person recorded multiple deeds at the same time. When you find any record for a person, make certain you have the whole item or set […]