books.google.com - Cape Cod families are difficult to trace because only the probate records survived the burning of the Barnstable County Courthouse in 1827, and similar disasters have taken their toll on the Cape's town records. Many of Chatham's records, for instance, were lost in a fire, and Yarmouth's records of the...http://books.google.com/books/about/Cape_Cod_Library_of_Local_History_and_Ge.html?id=OBbq13eCddYC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareCape Cod Library of Local History and Genealogy
