Starting Your Family History? Resources for Beginners:
1) First, ask your Ward Clerk for your membership number and confirmation date.
2) Second, register at http://www.new.familysearch.org Be sure to write your ‘UserName’ and ‘Password’ down somewhere, and store it in a safe place.
3) Contact one of your Ward Family History Consultants if you have questions about how to use New FamilySearch
4) If you’ve done no prior research obtain a family group sheet and pedigree chart, write down what you know; your research will fill in the blanks. Or download PAF5.2 at http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp?page=home/welcome/simplePAFRegistration.asp
5) Number 5 is very important! Please do not overlook this step. Write your life history and family history. Interview older family members and write a brief life history from your interview. (sample questions to ask can be found at the end of this document). If you like to scrapbook, or create photo albums on computer or online, you may try adding a paragraph about the people in the pictures and presto! you’ve started a family history.
1) Don’t know how to use the Family History Catalog? Follow the instructions below to access three very short and easy lessons to unlock this wealth of information! Go to http://www.familysearch.org . Place your cursor over the Library tab. Click Library Catalog. A new page will appear. The three new online lessons will be listed near the bottom of the page. The three lessons include: Lesson 1: Family History Library Catalog Navigation Lesson 2: How to Use the Catalog Lesson 3: Tips for Using the Catalog
2) Like to watch on television and have the BYU Channel at home? Watch “Questions and Ancestors” weekdays, at 11:30am, and before long you’ll become an expert! Or listen to any episode online here: http://www.byub.org/questionsandancestors/episodes.asp “A weekly series that focuses on genealogy questions submitted by the broadcast audience...”
3) Family History Research Lessons, free and online, offered by FamilySearch. These lessons are short and painless: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp?page=home/welcome/site_resources.asp%3FwhichResourcePage=fhlessonseries
4) Want something a bit more in-depth? Try these free speed lessons at BYU.org Try one of these links: http://ce.byu.edu/courses/pe/999015068001/public/start.htm if that link doesn’t work try http://ce.byu.edu/is/site/courses/freecourses.cfm click on “Finding your Ancestors” Another course option can be found here: http://ce.byu.edu/is/site/courses/select.cfm?type=pe
5) Research Wiki http://wiki.familysearch.org forms a community of research experts and interested genealogists that share up to date information on how to research sources for information about your ancestors. The larger the community the more useful the data is, so come and be a part.
Sample Interview Questions and web links to aid you in your quest:
Links: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp?page=home/welcome/site_resources.asp%3FwhichResourcePage=fhlessonseries
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp?page=home/welcome/site_resources.asp%3FwhichResourcePage=fhlessonseries
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp?page=home/welcome/site_resources.asp%3FwhichResourcePage=fhlessonseries
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Saturday, September 5, 2009
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Here's another recent article on the subject, from Seattle Public Library
ReplyDeletehttp://shelftalk.spl.org/2009/08/14/genealogy-101/
and a link to their Genealogy Resource page
http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=collection_db_list&dbPage=7
FREE Research Resources - Accessed Online – from Home (There are many more but let’s start small. Call your Family History Consultant or visit your Family History Center when you’re ready for more)
ReplyDelete1) http://pilot.familysearch.org Type in an ancestor’s name! Try it! Check back often as the data base is continually increasing. This site has indexes of (and digital documents of) birth, death, marriage, naturalization papers, Freedman Bank Records, Parish Records, and much more! It has records from many other countries and the data base is constantly growing so check back often.
2) If you have a King County Library Card you can access census records, World Vital Records, Newspaper Archives, Revolutionary War Records, Freedman’s Bank Records, and more http://www.kcls.org/cgi-bin/validate.pl type in your library card number. Also try http://www.kcls.org/databases/subject_categories.cfm#genealogy
3) Georgia 's death index from 1919 to 1927 can be accessed for free online index where images can be searched and viewed at www.GeorgiaArchives.org There are more of these, this one is listed as a sample.
4) If you, or someone in your family have traced ancestors to England, this map is helpful. The England Jurisdictions 1851 http://maps.familysearch.org “project simplifies research by consolidating data from many finding aids into a single searchable repository that can be accessed by clicking in a parish boundary. Features include contiguous parish and radius search lists and relevant jurisdictions as they existed in England in 1851. Data includes changes to parishes prior to 1851 and lists of non-conformist denominations in a parish. (requires Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3, Safari 3 or newer)”
5) Jewish Ancestry? Try this site for records search and tutorial: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp?page=home/welcome/site_resources.asp?whichResourcePage=Jewish
6) African American Ancestry? Start here: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp?page=home/welcome/site_resources.asp
7) The Family History Library in Salt Lake is a key resource for anyone interested in Family History Research. Just look at what’s available there! Church registers of christenings, marriages, burials and births, marriage, and death records; censuses, military records, wills and probates, land and property records, court documents, guild records, and family histories. --- Don’t know how to use the Family History Catalog? Follow the instructions below to access three very short and easy lessons to unlock this wealth of information! Go to http://www.familysearch.org . Place your cursor over the Library tab. Click Library Catalog. A new page will appear. The three new online lessons will be listed near the bottom of the page. The three lessons include: Lesson 1: Family History Library Catalog Navigation Lesson 2: How to Use the Catalog Lesson 3: Tips for Using the Catalog
8) “Thousands of published family histories, city and county histories, historic city directories, and related records are coming to the Internet. The Allen County Public Library (ACPL) in Fort Wayne , Indiana , Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library, and FamilySearch's Family History Library in Salt Lake City announced the joint project today. When complete, it will be the most comprehensive collection of city and county histories on the Web—and access will be free at” www.familyhistoryarchive.byu.edu.
FREE Research Resources – Accessed Online from a Computer at Your Local Family History Center (10675 NE 20th Street, Bellevue 98004 – Located behind Bellevue 1st Ward Building – Hours Tue-Thurs 10am-9pm, Fri 10–6, Sat 9-5) These memberships may also be subscribed to, for a fee, and accessed from home
ReplyDelete1) For an index of files, films and resources available at the Bellevue Family History Center visit their online index: http://bellevuewafhc.com/filmlisting.htm To find out more about the library http://www.bellevuewafhc.com/ Another helpful page is their local resource page http://bellevuewafhc.com/resources.htm
2) Godfrey, FootNote, World Vital Records and more formed partnership with Family Search and are available at Family History Centers Free. Read a clip, below, from an article to find out more about what each has to offer.
Footnote
“Footnote is a subscription-based website that features search-able, original documents that provide users a view of the events, places and people that shaped the American nation and the world. The site will have over 25 million digital images by the end of 2007. Footnote is currently working with FamilySearch to index the American Revolutionary War Pension files. Additional projects with FamilySearch are under development.
Individuals with Footnote subscriptions will still be able to sign in with the same Footnote username and password they use at home to save, annotate, and upload content.”
Godfrey Memorial Library
“Godfrey Memorial Library has an extensive collection of essential resources to assist genealogical and historical research. Resources include newspapers, city and business directories, vital records, printed census records, state, county, and local histories, as well as numerous family histories, family bible records, and service and pension records.”
Heritage Quest/ProQuest
“Heritage Quest online includes the complete set of U.S. Federal Census images from 1790 to 1930 including names and indexes for many of the sets. Users will be able to find people and places located in over 20,000 published family and local histories and PERSI, an index of over 1.9 million genealogy and local history articles. Other online databases include Revolutionary War Pension, Bounty-Land Warrant Application files, and the Freedman Bank Records.”
Kindred Konnections
“Kindred Konnections has over 230 million pedigree linked names with submitter information. The online pedigrees are not merged, but maintained by individual patrons. There are additional databases of birth, marriage, death, and census records that are automatically searched along with the pedigree linked data. Segments of pedigrees can be downloaded.”
World Vital Records
“WorldVitalRecords.com provides access to research helps and has a wide variety of international records, including more than 60 Parish registers, Scottish death records, UK marriages, and Irish prisoner records. There are more than 300 newspapers with 100,000 pages added a month, and over 500 online databases, including vital, military, land, pension records, reference materials, family histories, maps, gazetteers, and international coops. With the recent Quintin Publications partnership, WorldVitalRecords will soon have more than 10,000 databases online. At least one new database is added every business day.”
Free Research Lessons and Help