Genealogy is where you confuse the dead and irritate the living!
The internet provides a vast array of information for the
genealogist
URLs that relate to genealogy
How to use the information found on
these sites
Determining which is pertinent and valid vs. inaccurate and not helpful
Question the Information
Determining what is pertinent and valid vs. inaccurate and not
helpful
Study Elizabeth Shown Mills book “Evidence”
Utilize her “Quick Fact Sheet” for sourcing websites
How to use the information found on these
sites
General Tips
Start with yourself and work backwards
Exhaust the Internet of its good information
Many of the following are on the internet, many are not.
Valid Information
Census Records
Viral Records (birth, marriage, death)
Burial locations
Court Records to Deeds, Probate, Tax, Misc.
To write down the source to URL, Site name, Other information to help you and others locate the same information
Remember, your family information is NOT all
on the Internet. It is very dependent on
volunteers to place the information there.
Search Records
Advanced Search
International Genealogical Index
Ancestral Files
Pedigree Resource File
Record Search Pilot
Their card catalog
Historical Books
Web Sites
Index Records
Share
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Research Helps
Guidance
Library
Family History Library
Family History Centers
Education
Library Catalog
Help
Rootsweb.com
Search Engines for all of the rootsweb sites
The most up to date Social Security Death Index
Resource Pages for 10,000 of the more popular names
Sponsor of many of the USGenWeb projects and Cindy Howell’s List
Have Mail Lists for most surnames, counties, special areas, and other countries
Additional helps on line
Heritagequest.com
Census
Three types of search
Images for all the census (not all are indexed)
Help for working the census records
Several ways to search
Name, place
Ways to download parts of or the entire book
Several ways to search the periodical
sources
These include articles on people and places as well as how too
The index is NOT an everyname index, so look for specific records in an area, like cemetery records in XX County of a state.
There are some foreign listings as well
U.S. Serial Set
These are government documents; you never know what you may find
Freedman’s Bank Records
Search in a variety of ways.
These records are NOT just for the Black American community.
There is information in them about the owners and people they knew.
Several ways to search
These are the select records, not complete set of the record
Some War of 1812 records as well as bounty land are included in the
database
Viewing, Saving, & Printing
It is easier to view and print from a .pdf download
This applies to all the different databases of HeritageQuest
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If you want to save an individual image, .tiff is the better avenue
to go.
Rootsweb, Family Tree Maker, Ancestry.com and Genealogy.com all have other resources
Beginners Classes on line
Advanced Classes on line
Forms such as Family Group Sheets, Pedigree Charts
Rootsweb is free, many of the Family Tree Maker, Ancestry.com and Genealogy.com ones have to be purchased
http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ Public Land Record purchased from the U.S.
Tami Glatz’s toolbar has great ones. Your can download it from:
http://relativelycurious.ourtoolbar.com/
USGenWeb
State and County Sites
Use them to place Queries
Make sure the Queries are well worded with
Names
Dates
Places
What you are seeking
Use an e-mail alias that will never change
Example Query
Looking for descendants of Sterling Price Chambers and Bessie Maude Adkins. He was born in Phelps Co, MO. He was in Woodward Co, OK by 1900. He married Bessie there in 1903. They had three known children Marie Josephine, Chester, and Bessie. The first two children were born in OK, the last in CO. The family was in Trinidad, Los Animas Co, CO in 1920. Anyone knowing these Chambers, please contact me I have information on Sterlings parents, grandparents, and siblings.
Surname Lists and Message Boards
Message Boards are linked to the mail lists
Same rules as the USGenWeb queries
Home to many helpful genealogy related sites
Personal Ancestral File (PAF)
Family Tree Maker
Family Origins, which is no longer being developed – now Rootsmagic
Legacy Family Tree
The Master Genealogist with Second Site
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Places on the Internet to put your information and to find information
www.familysearch.org
(not recommended)
www.familytreemaker.com
(limited)
www.genealogy.com
(limited)
http://www.gencircles.com/
http://www.ancestry.com/
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
Can create limited pages with specified information
Searchable by their search engine
GenForum is the name for their message board system
Gencircles
Upload Gedcoms
Searchable by their search engine
Can allow for portions of your information to be downloaded
Has a linking tool that will link your information to others that
have a matching name
Once submitted, can’t change or update information
Searchable by their search engines
No sources
Can retrieve submitter information and gedcoms
WorldConnect on Rootsweb
One of the best places to put your
information for people to find and make contact
Up load GedComs without deleting a file
Searchable by Rootsweb search engines
People can leave notes and you will be contacted via e-mail
Internet Service Provider Web space
Purchased Web space
Dreamweaver
Expression Web
Publisher
Word
Others
Use filezilla or some other file transfer protocol software to move the files from your computer to the hosting server. Filezilla is available to download at: www.filezilla-project.com
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