"Before You Cross the Pond", an article in this week's Ancestry.com digest letter to subscribers, provides helpful insight into the sorts of information a researcher should seek out here BEFORE making the attempt to do research overseas. Written by Juliana Smith, editor of the Ancestry Daily News and author of The Ancestry Family Historian's Address Book, the article is not specifically geared to Caribbean research... but the information should still be applied doing research in any location away from American shores. You may wish to check it out at:
ancestry.com/library/print/columns/compass/6247.htm

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