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Secret Trick for Searching Genealogy Records on Ancestry or FamilySearch

Learn my secret trick for researching records and how I found a missing 8 year old boy in the 1870 U.S. Census with this unique strategy anyone can use. 

There is a handout for this episode. Information about how to get the handout below.

Note: You will need a recent version of Excel for this trick to work.

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