Wouldn’t you love to find a website indexing courthouse records?  There is one!  It’s not complete, but it’s better than nothing, and new indexes are constantly being added.  If you find a family member in this index, you may order the copy of the record directly through this site, or note the volume and page [...]

Hopefully by now, you are thinking outside the box.  Rather than a narrow view of looking at one record and then concluding that you cannot solve your problem, you are looking at all possible sources including censuses, land, military, probate, etc., and are expanding your search to include siblings, in-laws, neighbors, and associates. Let me [...]