We watched a class the other day that dealt with cluster genealogy. The speaker related how she was able to prove the parents of an ancestor from upper New York state by researching his siblings and their spouses. Eventually she was able to trace several families that had traveled from Rhode Island through Connecticut to the same county in New York.
Although the session itself focused on that particular case study, the handout provided many ideas for research in New York. Locating information in the area of rural upstate New York is difficult before 1850 because of the lack of vital records. There were several suggestions for finding substitutes for those missing records.
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