Before the Fire: Genealogical Research from Cambridge Chronicle 1830-1855 | Historical Records for Family Tree Research & Ancestry Discovery" （注：原标题已经是英文且具有历史文献特点，优化时保持了核心信息，增加了关键词"genealogical research"和"family tree research"以提升SEO，并补充了使用场景说明）

Genealogical records are hard to find in this Dorchester County town on the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay, thanks to a mid-nineteenth century courthouse fire. This researcher was able to find microfilm copies of a few disparate issues of the local newspaper, thus filling in some of the gaps. These precious newspapers also shed a bright beam of light on nineteenth-century Dorchester County life: its economic ups and downs, politics, Methodism, dependence on the steamboat, and cultural aspirations.

Walter E. Arps, Jr.

(1983, 2004), 2011, 8.5" x 11", paper, index, 28 pp.

ISBN: 9780788435010

101-A3501