Lcate! Research! Analyze! Class 1: Lcate Lindsay Fultn, Lindsay.fultn@nehgs.rg Tw Genealgical Principles: 1. Wrk frm the knwn t the unknwn 2. Write it dwn! Step #1- Get Organized Use a research lg, anntated research lg, five generatin chart, genealgical sftware, r family grup sheet t recrd data. Blank templates can be fund at American Ancestrshttp://www.americanancestrs.rg/educatin/learning-resurces/dwnlad Standards f recrding data: Names Write surnames in all CAPITAL LETTERS Recrd a wman using her maiden name When a maiden name is unknwn use MNU/--?--/ Dates Recrd dates as DAY-MONTH-YEAR (example: 16 January 2016) DO NOT use slash marks r tw digit years (example: 1/16/2016 r 1/16/2016) Places Nte smallest t largest gegraphic divisin (example: Bstn, Sufflk Cunty, Massachusetts) Fr utside the U.S.: twnland/parish, cunty, cuntry Be sure t identify cunties DO NOT use pstal abbreviatins (example: Massachusetts, DO NOT USE MA r Mass) Step #2- Lk fr missing infrmatin Once yu have rganized yur infrmatin, yu must then determine what infrmatin is lacking. Are yu missing dates r lcatins? Hw abut missing names? Are parents missing? Maiden names? Next, determine what individuals r families intrigue yu the mst? It is best t tackle ne line at a time. Create a list f questins r bjectives t research. 1
Step #3- List Recrds that will aid in yur research List recrds that will aid in yur research- Census (Federal and State) Vital Recrds (Birth, Marriage, Death) Church Recrds Land Recrds (Federal, State, Cunty) Curt Recrds (Prbate, Civil, Criminal) Newspapers (bits, wedding ntices) Naturalizatin recrds r Passenger Lists City Directries A helpful chart identifying these recrds be fund at American Ancestrshttps://www.americanancestrs.rg/educatin/learning-resurces/read/getting-started Find resurces in repsitries and nline- Check bth the nline and physical hldings Cntact histrical scieties, lineage scieties, lcal libraries, genealgical scieties, clleges and university archives, federal and state archives, twn halls, etc. Always think utside the bx! Map ut yur plan f actin: Use a Research Lg r Anntated Research Lg t keep an rganized list f the resurces that yu checked https://www.americanancestrs.rg/upladedfiles/cntent/educatin/learning_resurces/dwnlads/rese arch-lg.pdf Step #4- Find the Resurces Educate yurself- Digitized Bks: https://www.hathitrust.rg/ https://bks.ggle.cm/ https://archive.rg/index.php https://bks.familysearch.rg http://library.si.edu/digitallibrary https://penlibrary.rg/ Guide bks: Michael Leclerc, ed., Genealgist s Handbk fr New England Research, 5 th ed. (Bstn: NEHGS, 2012) Red Bk: American State, Cunty, and Twn Surces, 3rd ed. (Ancestry Publishing, 2004) The Surce: A Guidebk t American Genealgy, 3rd ed. (Ancestry Publishing, 2006) New Yrk Family Histry Research Guide and Gazetteer, 1st ed. (New Yrk Genealgical and Bigraphical Sciety, 2015) Prtable Genealgists Immigratin t the U.S. U.S. Naturalizatin NY State Census MA State Census Using the Federal Census: 1790-1840 Using the Federal Census: 1850-1940 Organizing yur Research Prblem Slving in Irish Research 17 th Century New England Research 2
Using DNA in Genealgy African American Resurces Applying t Lineage Scieties Building a Genealgical Sketch Genealgical Numbering Editrial Stylesheet Reference Ntes Indexing Subject Guides: http://www.americanancestrs.rg/educatin/learning-resurces/read Family Search Wiki: https://familysearch.rg/learn/wiki/en/main_page NEHGS webinars Upcming- http://www.americanancestrs.rg/educatin/online-classes/ Archived- http://www.americanancestrs.rg/educatin/learning-resurces/watch Mst Cmmnly Used Recrds Censuses: United States- 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 18570, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, and 1940 (1890 U.S. Federal Census missing due t fire) www.ancestry.cm www.familysearch.rg www.americanancestrs.rg Canada- 1825, 1831, 1842, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1906, 1911, 1916, and 1921 www.ancestry.cm www.familysearch.rg NEHGS micrfilm UK- 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911 www.ancestry.cm www.familysearch.rg Sctland- 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911 www.sctlandspeple.gv.uk Ireland- 1901 and 1911 http://www.census.natinalarchives.ie/ Vital Recrds: Mdern vital recrds are ften kept n the lcal level (either state, cunty, r twn) while lder recrds may have been mved t an archives, library, r lcal histrical sciety. The lcatin, availability, and accessibility f vital recrds vary frm state t state. T lcate available vital recrds in New England, cnsult Genealgist s Handbk fr New England Research, 5 th ed. (NEHGS, 2012). Fr vital recrds utside f New England, refer t Red Bk: American State, Cunty, and Twn Surces, 3 rd ed. (Ancestry Publishing, 2004) r The Surce: A Guidebk t American Genealgy, 3 rd ed. (Ancestry Publishing, 2006) 3
Bible Recrds: www.archivegrid.rg www.americanancestrs.rg http://services.dar.rg/public/dar_research/search/?tab_id=12 Cemetery Recrds: In additin t transcribed cemetery recrds that may be fund in lcal libraries r as manuscripts in a lcal histrical sciety r genealgical sciety (such as NEHGS), yu may find an nline database. These are the mst ppular (sme larger cemeteries have their wn databases): www.findagrave.cm www.mserts.cm www.billingraves.cm www.interment.net Church Recrds: Once yu identify yur ancestr s religin, search in church recrds fr their baptism, marriage, cnfirmatin, r burial. Dismissals and Membership may als be included in the recrds f the church. Church archives www.cngregatinallibrary.rg (Cngregatinal Church) www.gcah.rg (Methdist Church Archives) http://www.bstncathlic.rg/offices-and-services/office-detail.aspx?id=12294&pid=1484 (Cathlic Church- Bstn) NEHGS library AmericanAncestrs.rg familysearch.rg Finding Aids: Andersn, Rbert Charles, The Great Migratin Begins: Immigrants t New England, 1620-1633 (3 vls., Bstn: NEHGS, 1995); The Great Migratin: Immigrants t New England 1634-1635 (7 vls. t date; Bstn, NEHGS, 1999-2011); The Great Migratin Directry (Bstn: NEHGS, 2015). These vlumes include sketches f all knwn immigrants t New England frm 1620-1640. Andersn nt nly utilizes the schlarship f the last hundred years, but als lks again at riginal recrds t prvide a fresh, detailed, dcumented and insightful lk at the Great Migratin figures and their families. Hllick, Martin E., New Englanders in the 1600s: A Guide t Genealgical Research Published Between 1980 and 2010 (expanded editin; Bstn: NEHGS, 2012) An extensin f the wrk dne by Clarence Almn Trrey that cvers the mst recent schlarship published frm 1980 t 2010. 4
Trrey, Clarence Almn, New England Marriages Prir t 1700 (12 vl. manuscript; 1962) Trrey spent years cmbing the NEHGS library s bk and manuscript cllectin, t cmpile this anntated list f apprximately 38,000 marriages f New Englanders that ccurred prir t 1700. Clket, Meredith B., Funders f Early American Families: Emigrants frm Eurpe, 1607-1657 (revised editin; Cleveland, Ohi: General Curt f the Order f Funders and Patrits, 1985) - This bk is an alphabetical, anntated list f all knwn immigrants t what is nw the east cast f the United States within the first fifty years f English settlement, beginning with the establishment f Jamestwn in 1607. Land Recrds: Maintained n the lcal level (cunty r twn), these recrd can be fund thrugh searches using nline databases, micrfilm, transcriptin frm, r the recrd may still be n lcal level. Grantr- Individual(s) selling prperty Grantee- Individual(s) buying prperty Sme land recrd websites and repsitries: www.familysearch.rg Family Histry Library NEHGS Library https://www.glrecrds.blm.gv/default.aspx (Federal land) Prbate Recrds: Wills and Testaments- testatr distributes his r her persnal/real estate Inventries -A verified, itemized list f prperty Administratins Decrees Distributins Guardianships -Appinted by the curt t versee the affairs f a minr r a business f a persn deemed incapable Divrce Adptin Orders Sme prbate websites and repsitries: www.familysearch.rg Family Histry Library NEHGS Library www.americanancestrs.rg www.ancestry.cm 5
Military Recrds: Which war? (http://48e3l649yici2j96jp36bhdx.wpengine.netdna-cdn.cm/ancestry/files/2014/11/infgraphic-war-births2.jpg) www.fld3.cm http://www.natinalarchives.gv.uk/ www.americanancestrs.rg Hmewrk! Cmplete a research plan t find the parents f William Henry Brwn, using the facts that yu knw abut him. 6