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For the what it's worth catagory, I have had a great deal of luck finding family, ancestors, etc., on Face Book. I am subscribed to several famly and county groups, and have gotten in touch with lots of cousins I didn't even know I had.
If you're interested, just use the FB search feature for genealogy and/or add state, county, or surname. My groups are Alleghany, Botetourt, Craig, and Halifax counties of Va., Va. genealogy, WVa Gen., Marshall Co, WVA, and surnames are: Blair, Craft, Caldwell, Elmore, Hancock, Huffman, Leach, Harris, Robinson, Terrill, etc. It really helps to be working with all the cousins on these family groups.
One of the Caldwell cousins found a Chancery Court Record for Craig Co, Caldwell v. Caldwell that proved the existence of a 10th child for my gg. grandparents, Benjamin Richard and Sarah Becker Craft! Needless to say, it was a great discovery and cleared up the mystery of the 1860 census which listed a Susan Craft, age 30, with Alice and Ida (6 and 3). As far as we knew, there was no daughter named Susan, so we had no idea who this person was and/or how/if she was related. As it turned out, the father of the children was a Caldwell, and was the petitioner for the Caldwell v. Caldwell case!
Hope all of you will have as much luck with FB genealogy as I have. Happy hunting!
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