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1 Using Cluster Research to Understand Your Ancestors

2 What is Cluster Research

3 Ancestors

4 Cluster Research

5 Cluster Research

6 Three common types of cluster research

7 Who are your collateral relatives?

8 Do the entire family

9 Descendancy research

10 FAN: Friends, Acquaintances, Neighbors

11 Cluster Research

12 What documents should you be looking at?

13 What documents should you be looking at?

14 Discovering the Clusters in Your Tree

15 Types of Clusters

16 Michael Snavely Blanch Mary Secrest

17

18 Natchez Trace Parkway

19 Census Work: 1900

20 Census Work: 1880

21 Surname Clusters

22 Use your citations to discover other relations

23 Census Work: 1880 (tinner cluster)

24 Census Work: 1880 (born in VA cluster)

25 Census Work: 1870

26 1870 Households around Mike Snavely

27 Census Work: 1870

28 Census Work: 1860

29 Census Work: 1860

30 1860 Houses around Nicholas Snavely

31 Census Work: 1850

32 Are Your Citations Working For You?

33 What Clusters Does Michael Snavely Belong To?

34 Clustering By Location

35 Michael Snavely Blanch Mary Secrest

36 Look at Blanche s Family

37 What do they have in common?

38 Follow the Locations

39 Follow the Locations

40 Where were they buried?

41 Where were they buried?

42 Make Your Citations Work For You

43 Find A Grave by County

44 Find A Grave by County

45 Find A Grave by County

46 Cluster By Time

47 Start with the basics

48 Start with the basics

49 Put the timeline into Excel

50 Put the timeline into Excel

51 Put the timeline into Excel

52 Put the timeline into Excel

53 Clustering By Religion

54 Leah Scherer

55 Father: John Jacob Scherer

56 Brothers: John Jacob Scherer

57 Brother: Gideon Scherer

58 Journey to Texas

59 Journey to Texas

60 Evangelical Lutheran Church of America

61 Nesbitt Memorial Library

62 Nesbitt Memorial Library

63 Members of Luther Church

64 Marriage Records

65 Marriage Records

66 What Clusters Does Michael Snavely Belong To?

67 Clustering By Military

68 Military Units Are Clusters

69 Fold3

70 Fold3

71 Fold3

72 13 th Texas Volunteers

73 13 th Texas Volunteers

74 13 th Texas Volunteers

75 35 th Texas Cavalry

76 35 th Texas Cavalry

77 35 th Texas Cavalry

78 Pensions Records

79 Confederate Pension Records

80 Clustering Newspapers

81 Chronicling America

82 Newspapers.com

83 Newspapers.com

84 Newspapers.com

85 Lots of Clusters In Newspapers

86 Look at events like your ancestor did

87 Look at events like your ancestor did

88 Cluster Research Example: Georgia Eva Baxter Payne

89 Start by gathering enough information

90

91

92 Next Step

93

94 15 Nov 1879: James is born, NC 10 Jul 1880 : birth, NC?? She married James R Payne 1903: Lela Payne born NC 1905: Boyce Payne born NC 1907: Jennie Payne born NC 1908: Floyd Payne born NC 1912: Thomas Payne born NC 1914: Robert Payne born NC 1917: Daisy Payne born NC 1920: Lives in Crowders Mtn, NC 5 Jan 1923: James R Payne Died Crowders Mtn. Husband buried 5 Jan 1923, Kings Mtn 3 Feb 1928 : Died (Crowders Mtn) February(?) 1928: Buried Kings Mtn, NC

95 15 Nov 1879: James is born, NC 10 Jul 1880 : birth, NC 1902: She married James R Payne 1903: Lela Payne born NC 1905: James Boyce Payne born NC 1907: Jennie Payne born NC 1908: Floyd Payne born NC 1912: Thomas Payne born NC 1914: Robert Payne born NC 1917: Daisy Payne born NC 1920: Lives in Crowders Mtn, NC 5 Jan 1923: James R Payne Died Crowders Mtn. 3 Feb 1928 : Died (Crowders Mtn) February(?) 1928: Buried Kings Mtn, NC

96 15 Nov 1879: James is born, NC 10 Jul 1880 : birth, NC 1902: She married James R Payne 1903: Lela Payne born NC 1905: James Boyce Payne born NC 1907: Jennie Payne born NC 1908: Floyd Payne born NC 1912: Thomas Payne born NC 1914: Robert Payne born NC 1917: Daisy Payne born NC 1920: Lives in Crowders Mtn, NC 1920: Eva Payne born, NC 1922: Otto Payne Born, NC 5 Jan 1923: James R Payne Died Crowders Mtn. 3 Feb 1928 : Died (Crowders Mtn)

97 James and Georgie s Marriage Record

98 James and Georgie s Marriage Record

99 James and Georgie s Marriage Record

100 It s S.R and Mary Alexander, right?

101 Where Will I Find Siblings?

102 Sarah Baxter Payseur

103 Guardianship Records for Georgia Eva Payne s Children

104 Collateral Research

105 So now what are we trying to prove?

106 1880 U.S. Census, North Brook, Lincoln County, North Carolina

107 Peter and Mary Baxter Marriage Register

108 When did Peter and Mary die?

109 Now What?

110 Peter Franklin Baxter Estate Settlement

111

112 Why was the DC wrong?

113 Find Your Ancestor s Clusters

114 Good Reference Book

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