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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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