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| BEGINNING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH | ||||
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Tips for Beginning Your Research: Genealogy Learning Center, One Great Family Share your family history Rootsweb |
* Has some one already put your family's history on-line? Search Google with your ancestor's name in quotation marks. Search specific Genealogy sites with your ancestor's given and surname Has someone written a book on your family history? Consider adding your own family tree at Ancestry.com Has someone started a DNA research project for your surname? You might be surprised who you are related to. * See what is on-line at the county where your ancestors lived US GenWeb Project and US GenWeb Archives USGenWeb Search Us (by state) * Are you looking for a living cousin? Use the Living People search page * Did your ancestors have Social Security? Check their names on the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) in searches below * Explore for on-line Cemeteries - example: Andrew Co Mo tombstone photos * Subscribe for Census searches, other Databases, Military records, Newspapers, & obituaries * Search and post to family name or location eMail groups and Forums to get questions answered * See what your family's state Government & Courts may have on-line. | |||
| BASIC ANCESTOR SEARCHES, various sites For more general searches, see below
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one of the original comprehensive genealogy sites, started as an archived on-line bulletin board | Free searches into one of the original on-line family history sites * RootsWeb SSDI * RootsWeb General Search * RootsWeb Surname List * Roots Location List | |||
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World Vital Records offers many free searches in US and international databases. Subscriptions offer more access to these databases. Advanced Ancestor Searches Census Databases Current Special Offers | ||||
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KINDRED KONNECTIONS "Ancestry Archive" |
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Kindred Konnections, MyTrees: "The Ancestry Archive is an index to our pedigree-linked genealogy database. Using this index, you can quickly search through the pedigree information we currently have available on your family ancestry. The information in the Ancestry Archive Index comes from two main sources. The first source is our collection of pedigree files from submitters and other genealogists. Whenever a GEDCOM file of personal family history is submitted to us, we add that file to the Ancestry Archive. The other source of pedigree-linked genealogy is indexed family history websites. After you have determined there are names of interest to you in our Archive, you will want to create and activate an account to see the data in pedigree-linked format with notes and submitter information." | ||||
| ONE GREAT FAMILY |
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ORIGINS NETWORK ancestors from Great Britain, Ireland, Scotland |
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FAMILY TREE SEARCHES, various sites | ||||
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Create your Family Tree
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| LIVING PEOPLE SEARCHES | ||||
| Cousins? Natural parent? Living People Search Page for current addresses, phone numbers Search for Anyone's Email Address | from Reunion.com | |||
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LIBRARY List (WWW-VL) |
Interlibrary Loan Info | I-Gen Book Store
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| DNA Testing - for Ancestors and Unknown Cousins How Are Two or More Family Lines Related? |
Relative Searches DNA tests can
help determineif two families have a common ancestor, or if you are part Native American, etc. FamilyTree DNA may help you. |
Try DNA Tests through Family Tree DNA
More on DNA: Journey of Mankind, The Peopling of the World (Bradshaw Foundation) |
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| CEMETERY SEARCHES Where are your ancestors buried? What can you learn from their tombstones? | ||||||||||
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Cemetery Searches Also see: Appropriate county sites on US GenWeb Death and newspaper obituary searches
Visiting National Cemeteries |
* Cemetery Message Board
* Cemetery Junction * Find A Grave * Interment.net * IIGS Cemetery Links * Politicial Graveyard * National Archives and genealogy research from Washington, DC * Tombstone Transcriptions * Tombstone Central * USA Veterans Gravesite Locater * USA Veterans National & State Cemeteries * Photograph Andrew County Tombstones project is an example of what cemetery photo volunteers are putting on-line. | |||||||||
| CENSUS SEARCHES Before the 1850 US census, only one name for each household was listed. The 1890 census was destroyed. Before internet searches, we looked for the names of our ancestor's family by scrolling through microfilm copies. | ||||||||||
| Census Searches USA - Ancestry.com
CANADA - Ancestry.ca
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| DATABASE SEARCHES such as • Birth, Marriage, and Death Records • Census Records • Passenger Lists & Naturalization Records • Historical Newspapers • Military Records • Family & Local Histories • Court, Land, & Probate Records | ||||||||||
| DATABASE Searches * United States * United Kingdom * Europe * Canada * Australia * by State |
* Search Historical Newspaper Collections
* Ancestry.com * Genealogy.com * RootsWeb.com - user contributed records, searchable indexes - USA, international | |||||||||
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DATE of DEATH and LOCATION SEARCHES SSDI (Social Security Death Index) SEARCHES *TIP: Sometimes you can find where someone lives from an on-line obituary of one of their close relatives. Search the SSDI to find the town where the deceased person lived, and with that info, check obituaries from their local online newspaper. | ||||||||||
| Social Security Death Index (SSDI) Did your US ancesters have Social Security? It began 1/1/1937. The Death Master File (DMF) from the Social Security Administration (SSA) is created from internal SSA records of deceased persons possessing social security numbers and whose deaths were reported to the SSA. If someone is missing from the list, it may be that the benefit was never requested, an error was made on the form requesting the benefit, or an error was made when entering the information into the SSDI. |
* Free: Social Security Death Index
* Social Security Death Index Search - (World Vital Records) * Social Security Death Index * SEARCH Genealogy.com * Casualties and Veterans of US wars - (Interactive Genealogy) * The state of Missouri has many FREE death certificates on-line (1910-1956) as well as pre-1910 birth and death records. Thanks to the MO Secretary of State and staff.
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| EMAIL LISTS for GENEALOGY, HISTORY, BOOKS Sharing your search and interests with others | ||||||||||
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Post genealogy and history books for sale, and books you want to buy at this Yahoo! group * GEN-EVENTS: Announce or check genealogy reunions, meetings, historical re-enactments at Yahoo! group |
* John Fuller's Genealogy Resources on the Internet and
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| FORUMS on FAMILY HISTORY Have other researchers already posted information about your interests? Check Forums. | ||||||||||
| Genealogy FORUMS Ask and answer questions Find fellow researchers Popular Surname Forum Searches: * Ancestry |
* Ancestry.com Forums
* GenForum * GenForum * GenForum * GenForum * GenForum * Rootsweb * Yahoo! USA and Country genealogy forums | |||||||||
MILITARY Records kept on veterans of various US wars | Some who died in France | OBITUARY - NEWSPAPER RESEARCH Obituaries can tell which, and where, other family members were living when a close relative died - Andrew County MO "obituaries to share", for example. | |||||||||
| Military Record Searches by war |
* Newspapers (some with obituaries) on-line:
Your Newspaper subscription also includes access to the new Obituary Collection that contains more than 9 million obituaries.
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| ANDREW COUNTY, MISSOURI NW Missouri, just north of St Jo | ||||||||||
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Andrew County, Missouri Andrew Co MOGenWeb search with FreeFind.com Note that Missouri has many statewide death certificates on-line. Cemetery photos: The Photograph Andrew County Tombstones project |
Andrew County MO Forums: * Missouri county forums including Andrew Co,  Missouri:* Missouri Travel, Genealogy, History I-Gen searches * Missouri Death Certificates, on-line and free * Missouri Genealogy and History databases  The History of Andrew and Dekalb Counties, Missouri - Amazon.com 1890 Andrew County, Missouri special census - Amazon.com | |||||||||
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Butler County, Ohio * Butler Co OHGenWeb search with FreeFind.com |
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"Soc.roots" was replaced by soc.genealogy.misc and six others in 1994 (1993) Dubbed "The History Network", HNSource, was the second web site openned to the public on March 6, 1993, by its creator, Dr. Lynn H. Nelson, professor of history at the University of Kansas. The first connections went to on-line library catalogues through a HyTelnet facility, to index data bases and FTP sites already containing materials relevant to historical studies. HNSouce also provided links to a full-text document archive, world-wide gophers, several works on the use of the Internet, some Gutenberg electronic texts, and other facilities. These were the days of Bitnet, dialing up Telnet, newsgroups on Usenet, and Free-Net bulletin boards (DFN, DAFN). More internet history. | ||
| VOLUNTEERS Rootsweb.com * (pre-internet: 1987) Alf Christophersen launched the ROOTS-L mailing list in December 1987. * (pre-internet: 1989) Karen Isaacson began maintenance of the RootsWeb Surname List in 1989, when everything was done with file archives and such. * (1993) By around 1993, the Web had gotten started and Steven Woods had created the first Web-based search engine for the Rootsweb Surname List. |
COMPANIES Ancestry.com (1996) "Our goal with Ancestry was to build the largest online genealogy database and subscription service in the world." MyFamily.com (1998) "We launched this free service in December 1998 and quickly became one of the fastest growing community web sites in history, gaining 1 million registered users in its first 140 days." | |
| Native American History * Genealogy & History * American Indian Net * 500 Nations * USA Indian Lands, 1978 * Also see individual state pages and Forums, above |
WWW Virtual Library History Sites * History of the American West * History of the USA * Electronic Research Library Web Stacks * Hispanic American genealogy, history, travel * Afro American history
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USA State and County searches for Genealogy & History |
* Footnote: download original historical documents to use at your convenience * Forums by state * Genealogy Resources on the Internet, John Fuller * Legal Research on the Web, International including USA State Courts, Historic & Legal Documents, Washburn Law School * Experiences in Researching in Court Houses * National Archives and Records * Search Weekly Compulation of Presidential Documents - presidential statements, messages, remarks, and materials released by the White House Press Secretary. Browse by year. * USGenWeb states - choose state, then the county of interest | ||||
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