Trees grow in the strangest places! Take a look at the latest entry on 
the "Out of the Box" blog from the LVA's archival staff. It is about the 
discovery of a hand-drawn family tree from the 1860s in a chancery court 
case in Nelson County that charts the branches of the powerful Carter family.  
Though this example is of a prominent family, most chancery suits concerned 
ordinary Virginians and some even document the lineage of the enslaved.

http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/

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