Please Help Me Find My Family History

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Please Help Me Find My Family History

• Tips for Assisting Genealogy Researchers in
  Libraries
• Darlene E. Hamilton

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Seattle Public LibraryGenealogy Specialists

• Darlene E. Hamilton, Sr. Librarian
• darlene.hamilton_at_spl.org
• John LaMont, Librarian
• john.lamont_at_spl.org
• Heather McLeland-Wieser, Manager,
• History, Travel and Maps Department
• heather.mcleland-wieser_at_spl.org

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Objectives

• Basic steps to take for a family history project.
• Types of sources used by genealogists.
• Databases and internet Web sites used for
  genealogical research.

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Genealogy Megasites

• Cyndis List
• RootsWeb
• GENUKI

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GenWeb Projects

• USGenWeb
• CanadaGenWeb
• WorldGenWeb

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Subscription Databases

• Ancestry Library Edition
• Ancestry.com (Individual subscription)
• Heritage Quest Online
• New England Ancestors

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Basic Steps

• Education
• Gather existing data from family sources
• Survey existing data available in print,
  microform and electronic formats
• Organization and documentation
• Analysis and research

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How -To Guides On-line

• Cyndis List
• LDS FamilySearch
• RootsWeb
• National Genealogical Society

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Genealogy Societies

• Washington State Genealogical Society
• National Genealogical Society
• Federation of Genealogical Societies
• Daughters of the American Revolution

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Five Basic Steps

• Education
• Gather existing data from family sources
• Survey existing data available in print,
  microform and electronic formats
• Organization and documentation
• Analysis and research

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Family Sources

• Interviews with family members
• Bibles
• Certificates birth, marriage, death
• Documents military, naturalization
• Diaries and letters
• Photographs

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On-line Catalog Web Sites

• Seattle Public Library
• LDS Family History Library
• Library of Congress
• Ancestry
• Newberry Library
• OCLC
• Use search engines to locate local library Web
  sites to search WorldCat.

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Sites For Digitized Books

• Heritage Quest Online
• Brigham Young University Library for Family
  History Archive
• Making of America Project
• USGenWeb County pages
• Our Roots (Canada)
• British History On-line

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Some Sites For Family Charts

• RootsWeb
• LDS Family Search
• Ancestry
• Use search engines to locate Family Name Web
  sites

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Five Basic Steps

• Education
• Gather existing data from family sources
• Survey existing data available in print,
  microform and electronic formats
• Organization and documentation
• Analysis and research

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Genealogy Programs

• Family Tree Maker
• RootsMagic
• PAF
• Legacy Family Tree
• The Master Genealogist
• Reunion (MacIntosh)
• GEDCOM Utility Program

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Five Basic Steps

• Education
• Gather existing data from family sources
• Survey existing data available in print,
  microform and electronic formats
• Organization and documentation
• Analysis and research

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Access to Government Records

• Originals held by agency or archive
• Microfilmed copies
• Transcribed or abstracted copies
• Indexes (print and microfilm)
• On-line databases and indexes
• Digitized records

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Archives Government Sites

• National Archives (U.S.)
• Washington State Digital Archives
• Library of Virginia
• Illinois State Archives
• Land Patent Search (U.S. BLM/GLO)
• Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System

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Types of Sources

• Vital records Birth, Marriage, Death
• Census records Federal state
• Land tax records
• Wills Probate records
• Immigration
• Naturalization records
• Military records

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Sites for Social Security Index

• Ancestry
• LDS FamilySearch
• RootsWeb

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Types of Sources

• Vital records Birth, Marriage, Death
• Census records Federal state
• Land tax records
• Wills Probate records
• Immigration
• Naturalization records
• Military records

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Land Records

• Colonial
• State
• Federal (Public land records)
• Local land records between individuals are
  recorded in the county courthouses.

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Immigration Print Sources

• Passenger and Immigration Lists Index (P.
  William Filby, ed.)
• Germans to America

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Immigration Web sites

• Ancestry
• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
• Castle Garden Database
• Ellis Island Foundation Database
• Stephen Morse One Step Webpages

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Types of Sources

• Vital records Birth, Marriage, Death
• Census records Federal state
• Land tax records
• Wills Probate records
• Immigration
• Naturalization records
• Military records

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Ethnic and Religious Groups

• Research guides
• Ancestry
• Heritage Quest Online
• Cyndis List
• Specific Web sites

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Ethnic Religious Web Sites

• NARA Ethnic Heritage Resources on other Web
  sites.
• AfriGeneas
• American Memory Project Collection
• Slave narratives
• Native American Indian Genealogy
• JewishGen

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Non-U.S. Research

• Canada
• Canadian Genealogy Centre
• CanadaGenWeb
• British Isles
• GENUKI
• Europe
• WorldGenWeb
• American Historical Society of Germans from
  Russia (AHSGR)
• Federation of Eastern European Family History
  Societies (FEEFHS)

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