Every genealogist knows that genealogical research takes many years. Finding ancestors is no easy task, especially when we reach the deep past. After the initial completion of family group sheets, with the help of relatives and census records that did not begin until 1790, a deeper, more penetrative search pattern is required.
That takes us to county records where marriages, births, deaths, and home purchases occur regularly. The key here is to discover when and where the ancestors resided. It is not like a person remains stationary, never leaving the homeplace. This habit has existed since the beginning of time.
My collection of county records in Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia includes old wills, estates, marriages, tax digests, deeds, cemeteries, obituaries, old printed books, church records, military, immigration, old colonial records, etc. adds up to more than one terabyte. One terabyte equals one trillion bytes, 728,177 floppy dicks, 1,498 CDs, or 83,333,333.33 pages!
Yes, georgiapioneers.com contains that much research! To make research more accessible, I merged my seven websites and a vast collection of old genealogy books with georgiapioneers.com!