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From: "Mark Massey" <>
Subject: [PHILLY-ROOTS-L] Research
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 12:29:40 -0500

Firstly I would like to thank everyone for responding to my inquiry about Arlington Cemetery----NOW

Here is an interesting conundrum--It seems there are a lot of people hitting a brick wall between 1850 and 1880---In 1862 President Lincoln sighed the Homestead act----

People moved to Ohio--Indiana--etc-etc---Now my thought is that knowing the government's normal practices--Some government official had a brother in law to lazy and dumb to find work--So he made a job recording the movement of these people--Now this was a great idea--It was great for genealogists-Lawyers-the unemployed--paper and ink manufactories and on and on--The brother in law was out of the politicians house and out of his hair--Now today these records if they still exist would be a boon to our research--
I mean a big time HELP--

SO WHERE ARE THE RECORDS----------HOW CAN THEY BE ACCESSED------------WHAT INFORMATION WOULD THEY HOLD.

MARK

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