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Family knowledge supplied by Amberly R. Carter-Mills

Amberly R. Carter-Mills · 2026 · BEFORE TILL research files

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  • BT-EVD-00281Relationship Statement

    Family knowledge places Alma Carthan as a daughter of George Smith. The archive holds no contemporary record for this link, so the generation is carried as under verification.

    No verbatim wording has been transcribed for this observation yet.

  • BT-EVD-00298Relationship Statement

    Family knowledge places Kermit Gordon as a child of Amanda Smith. No contemporary record has been entered, so the generation is carried as under verification.

    No verbatim wording has been transcribed for this observation yet.

  • BT-EVD-00302Relationship Statement

    Family knowledge places a private living descendant as a child of Kermit Gordon. No contemporary record has been entered into the archive.

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  • BT-EVD-00306Relationship Statement

    Direct family knowledge of a living descendant. Any vital record supporting this link is held in restricted storage; only a redacted public derivative may ever be displayed.

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    Family knowledge places Alma Carthan as a daughter of George Smith. The archive holds no contemporary record for this link, so the generation is carried as under verification.

    BT-EVD-00281

  • No verbatim wording has been transcribed for this reading yet.

    Family knowledge places Kermit Gordon as a child of Amanda Smith. No contemporary record has been entered, so the generation is carried as under verification.

    BT-EVD-00298

  • No verbatim wording has been transcribed for this reading yet.

    Family knowledge places a private living descendant as a child of Kermit Gordon. No contemporary record has been entered into the archive.

    BT-EVD-00302

  • No verbatim wording has been transcribed for this reading yet.

    Direct family knowledge of a living descendant. Any vital record supporting this link is held in restricted storage; only a redacted public derivative may ever be displayed.

    BT-EVD-00306

Amberly R. Carter-Mills; Family knowledge supplied by Amberly R. Carter-Mills; BEFORE TILL research files.

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  • Under Investigation

    Was Alma Smith Carthan a daughter of George Smith?

    Family knowledge places Alma Carthan as a daughter of George Smith. The archive holds no contemporary record for this link, so the generation is carried as under verification.

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  • Under Investigation

    Was Kermit Gordon a child of Amanda Smith?

    Family knowledge places Kermit Gordon as a child of Amanda Smith. No contemporary record has been entered, so the generation is carried as under verification.

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  • Under Investigation

    Was Magnolia Gordon-Carter a child of Kermit Gordon?

    This link is currently carried by living family knowledge. No birth certificate, census entry or death record has been entered into the archive that names Kermit Gordon as her parent. Family knowledge is recorded here as what it is: direct, first-hand, and not yet independently documented.

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  • Family Tradition

    Is Amberly R. Carter-Mills a child of Magnolia Gordon-Carter?

    Both people are living and both have recorded consent to be named. The link is known directly within the family and is additionally supported by an Illinois birth certificate that this archive describes but does not publish. The founder receives no evidentiary shortcut: the record has not been obtained, and the link is not presented as documented until it has been.

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Family knowledge supplied by Amberly R. Carter-Mills

BT-SRC-00264
Evidentiary weight 3 of 4. Primary oral history — for the intervieweeOriginal image: Transcript verification pendingA first-person account, primary evidence for the speaker's own life. It is not evidence about another person unless that person is named in it.
Creator
Amberly R. Carter-Mills
Date created
2026
Repository
BEFORE TILL research files
Collection
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Authored Narrative
Source type
Oral History
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Amberly R. Carter-Mills; Family knowledge supplied by Amberly R. Carter-Mills; BEFORE TILL research files.

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Carter-Mills, Amberly R. "Family knowledge supplied by Amberly R. Carter-Mills." BEFORE TILL: The Living Evidence Archive. Version not yet assigned. Object BT-SRC-00264. Accessed 2026-09-24. /source/BT-SRC-00264.

Attribution: Amberly R. Carter-Mills, Founder, Creator & Descendant Archivist.

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