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However, the ease of organizing and finding information made possible by these digital devices can be a two-edged sword. It seems the more you find and create, the more you want more. And that requires disk space.
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It is a great time to get people interested in their family history. Children can be encouraged to ask questions, look at family treasures and understand family relations.
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So many resources are being made available online, it's sometimes hard to keep up. The BYU Family History Archives is one buried treasure worth investigating.
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For the first time ever, over one million Holocaust-related records - including millions of names and 26,000 photos from the National Archives- will be available online.
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Because the Native American family-naming system varies from the English tradition, census returns are not always useful for locating Native American on reservations. Look a bit deeper and you'll find surprising things you can easily find on a reservation.
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It can happen to the novice, the most organized, the cautious, and the most experienced. Genealogical information from a family member, family friend, or authoritative source can still lead to errors that come back to haunt a researcher. The author shares a brief episode from her own experience and suggests some strategies to recover when research has taken a wrong turn.
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Understanding terminology is essential for researching educational communities. In the late 1800s, seminaries appeared across the country. For years there have been academies, colleges, and universities. Students and others associated with these institutions, were counted in various ways and there are techniques for researching them.
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Libraries and archives are still important repositories of information in this increasingly digital world. Working in a research room, however, is different from online investigating. Find out how to dress, what to bring and what else you need to know to make your research room experience successful.
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Researching individuals who lived and worked in fishing camps is possible through traditional censuses and other documents. Fishing camps were communities of residential employees. Fishermen who lived primarily in a fishing camp were counted in the census enumeration for that location regardless of the style of accommodations.
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There's more than just library books and the Internet to help with your research. Archives are a great sources for primary resources and there are innovative ways of getting to them.
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Genealogists are known to be preoccupied with the dead . . . this article examines the various uses of that word - "dead," and its companion forms - and how we use it in our everyday communication.
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More than ten million families have created their family tree on the international genealogy network, dynastree.com, over the last two years.
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First generation residents of an intentional community are not born there. They come for a specific reason. Skilled lumberjacks were drawn to logging camps for employment well off the beaten path—much too far to commute. The result was the logging camp community composed mainly of men able to harvest large forests of much-needed lumber and drive the logs downstream. As with any community, there were other residents who provided related services and goods. We can study a logging camp much as we would any community because they were counted by census enumerators as though they were cities.
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