To read this Genealogy Guide article, visit "timeline".
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Beginning next month, I want to take a look, state by state, at the resources available today for genealogists. I'm going to follow the order by which the states joined the union, highlight their major starting points for genealogical information, but I also hope to uncover some hidden gems along the way.
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To read this Genealogy Guide article, visit "sort".
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To read this Genealogy Guide article, visit "patterns".
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FamilySearch's Record Search project gives you access to free, indexed, searchable records from all over the world. The best way to get the most out of it, though, is to join as a volunteer indexer.
To read the complete article, visit "FamilySearch Indexing: Want Free Indexed Records Online? Become a Volunteer and Help Create Them.".
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Footnote.com to feature original documents from every publicly available U.S. Federal Census from 1790 to 1930
To read the complete article, visit "Entire U.S. Census Goes Interactive With Footnote.com".
News item posted by illyad.
Whether you've been tracking your family's genealogy for a while or are just starting, you'll soon find three sources that will give you a wealth of information. Birth, marriage, and death certificates are the primary sources for all genealogists–the primary colors of genealogy. It's the information contained in them that will enable you to begin your genealogical quest.
To read the complete article, visit "The Triumvirate of Sources".
News item posted by illyad.
Patent-pending timeline in ArchivaLife captures key details often left out by scrapbooks and photo albums alone
To read the complete article, visit "Entrepreneur Introduces ArchivaLife(TM): A New Concept to Document Memorable Life Events for Future Generations".
News item posted by illyad.
Once you have gathered information on your family, what's next? What do you do with it? How do you analyze it? Where do you go from here? Taking advantage of the many educational opportunities in the genealogical world can answer these questions and many more.
To read the complete article, visit "Getting a Genealogical Education".
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Since 2005, the university has sent students out in the summer time to take stories about people and places in Northern Ontario, then write and publish them in the winter. Now, they have quite a few done, and they are available to the public.
To read the complete article, visit "Northeastern Ontario Family Histories".
News item posted by illyad.
As you might expect, genealogists tend to agree that hiring a professional genealogist is money well spent. In today's economy, the reasons, however, may be a bit surprising. Judy Rosella Edwards explains the situation and gives professional genealogists some good news.
To read the complete article, visit "DIY Genealogy: Is It Worth Hiring a Professional?".
News item posted by ecolitgy.
Not everybody has Pilgrim ancestry or even New England colonial ancestry, but researching these folk is interesting.
To read the complete article, visit "Pilgrims to Americans".
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Ancestry.com, the world's largest online resource for family history, has published a 73-page file consisting of letters and telegrams sent in the 1960s by an interesting cast of historical characters, including Congressman J. Arthur Younger, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Douglas MacArthur II and members of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Department of State.
To read the complete article, visit "Ancestry.com Allows Americans to Investigate for Themselves, 'What Really Happened to Amelia Earhart'".
News item posted by illyad.
While conducting French, French-Canadian, or Acadian ancestral research, the researcher may come to a grinding halt because records begin to show surnames that do not match, or a new surname arises that causes the researcher to believe that he or she has uncovered an unrelated family group. What should have been a simple search of church records, with an already known date and place of birth, leads to confusion when the family name does not match what the researcher already knows to be fact. This article addresses the "dit" phenomena as it may occur within some French ancestral families and provides information that will assist the researcher in continuing uninterrupted with the research.
To read the complete article, visit "What is a Dit Name and Why Is It Important to Family History?".
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Too often we overlook faith-based communities when we are researching genealogy. The Catholic church institutions, such as convents, are the faith-based communities that immediately come to mind. But there are many others where we find people living with intentional communities they have created or joined, rather than with their families.
To read the complete article, visit "Genealogy of Communities: Faith-Based Communities".
News item posted by ecolitgy.
Over 190,000 Welsh wills (some 800,000 pages) have been digitised and are now available on the Library's website or direct on our online catalogue and are free to view.
To read the complete article, visit "190,000 Welsh Wills Online – Free to View".
News item posted by illyad.
The National Archives and Research Administration offers genealogists more than just census records. NARA is gaining more exciting historical information and moving its records into the 21st century. Find out how to take advantage of everything this federal repository can offer a researcher.
To read the complete article, visit "Mining for Genealogical Information in Federal Records".
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Prostitution represents a researchable community. Whether legal or not, members of the prostitution community have long been reported in census enumerations.
To read the complete article, visit "Genealogy of Communities: Prostitution".
News item posted by ecolitgy.
In her continuing series "The Genealogy of Communities," Judy Rosella Edwards takes us inside residential hospitals, asylums, and sanitariums. These institutions were considered the full-time residence of the patients – and many of the staff. It was a different era and you'll find an astonishing amount of detailed genealogical data on the residents.
To read the complete article, visit "Genealogy of Communities: Asylums, Hospitals, and Sanitariums".
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Casting a wide net can provide useful family information.
To read the complete article, visit "Keeping your eyes on the road – not!".
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Everyone lives someplace. Even prisoners are counted in the census. If they happen to be residents of the penal system, they are counted where they reside.
To read the complete article, visit "Genealogy of Communities: Prisons".
News item posted by ecolitgy.
Phrases that use "dead" or "death" in their composition make the term, often considered brusque and even rude, commonplace and acceptable. Genealogists understand the need to be "dead right" in their research, but why not "live right"? This article explores the use of "dead" as meaning "complete" or "absolute."
To read the complete article, visit "Lexicons of Lost Lifestyles: In Passing, Part II".
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Essential 19th century newspaper resource provides immediate, rich, fertile content for researchers and journalists
To read the complete article, visit "19th Century Live".
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