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Presenter: Cheri Daniels

One resource of early westward settlement and migration is the Draper Manuscripts. Lyman Copeland Draper grew up around those who had settled the new western territories. These stories impressed an urgent need of documentation upon Draper. The result was a collection of eyewitness accounts of migration, settlement, and war. Learn the challenges associated with using this multi-indexed resource and why a thorough approach can identify ancestors obscured by the path of migration.