Our North Carolina title that is currently available:
Gabriel Jackson of Polk County, North
Carolina: one line of descent
by
Judith Moore Sherman (Brown) (1987)
We think that this work,
by one of the partners of Between the Lakes Group, will be helpful for
two reasons (beyond the careful scholarship that went into its
preparation).
First, genealogy in the
mountains of western North Carolina is outright difficult to research.
The area was too
transient for too long, and largely with people for whom the written
word may have historically been more of an enemy than a friend.
The extent to
which government in the form of records of vital statistics was present
was at best limited.
That religious
communities in the area were continually in flux for many reasons, but
in large measure because of a lack of well-educated clergy, largely
eliminated the other usual source of genealogical source material.
The area, while
not subject to depredations during the Civil War, had a disadvantage
nonetheless: division of loyalties between the north and the south.
That this family
produced a southern lieutenant while many or most of the names in the
book are more closely associated with northern sympathizers serves to
illustrate the point
Second, Jackson is a very
common name.
While the
difficulty attending research of names like Brown and Smith and Jones
and Johnson are well known, the Jackson surname has certainly been among
the 10 most common in the United States, and it was especially true at
this time.
The document is available as a downloaded
PDF file. It's 80 pages long and includes ancestry charts and an
index of names. We offer it for $7.50. Please click the "Buy
Now" button to download the document to your computer.
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