Jean LaCoss began educating herself on family history and ways to find information
many years ago when there was little online access to documents. At the time, there were no extensive resources such as the archives available at the library today.
As a referral coordinator for Randolph Health Internal Medicine by trade, LaCoss calls herself a self-taught genealogist through curiosity and interest.
The 67-year-old traveled to out-of-town libraries, the State Archives, and to county courthouses and the clerk of court office to obtain documents and records that were not available online at the time.
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