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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:Ecclesiastes 3:1
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An Overview
Presented by:
DeAnne Shelley
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Lesson 1:How to Accomplish
Your Original Research
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Lesson 2:
Organization of Your Research
Notebook
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There are two types of records:•Previous Research
Family history already compiled by others•New Research
Family history done by you in original records
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Strengths of Previous Research
Strengths of Previous Research
• Information has already been gathered for you.
•These sources give you clues about where to search.•They may have stories, and details about your family.
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Weaknesses of Previous Research
Weaknesses of Previous Research
•May be inaccurate
•May not be well documented•May mislead you if you
are not very careful
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Original Records - Original Records -
Plowing new ground. There are many kinds
of original records.
Plowing new ground. There are many kinds
of original records.
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Lesson 2:
Checking What Has Already Been
Completed
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Lesson 4:
How to do Family History on the
Internet
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Lesson 5:
Locating My Family using
Census Records
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Census RecordsCensus Records•Places people in a time and place
•Gives name and birth year in later censuses
•Gives other details, including parents, immigration, and naturalization
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Lesson 6:
Using the Handybook and
FHLC
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Lesson 7:
Vital Records
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Vital or Civil Records
Vital or Civil Records•Birth, marriage and death
records•Gives dates, places and relationships
•Families can be built from this information
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Lesson 8:
Church Records
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Church RecordsChurch Records
•Gives birth, marriage and burial
• information•Very useful in European and South American countries•Often go back to the early
1500s
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Lesson 9:
Land and Tax Records
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Land RecordsLand Records
•Where a family lived – state, county, township
•Time period they were there•Names of husband and
wife selling land•Name of the buyer
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•Who owned the land previously
•Neighbors
• Children involved in an estate settlement
•Economic condition of the family
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Lesson 10:
Probate and Court Records
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Probate RecordsProbate Records•Wills
•Estate inventories
• Cemetery records
•Funeral home records
•Obituaries
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Lesson 11:
Military Records
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Lesson 12:
Emigration, Immigration and Naturalization
Records
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Records need to be analyzed to be
really understood
Records need to be analyzed to be
really understood•How close to the event
was it written?•Who wrote it?Be careful about
conclusions!!
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