FAMILY HISTORY NEWSLETTER Volume IV, Issue 4 April 2010
______WHAT EXACTLY DOES This is the compilation of the suggestions of SYNCING MEAN IN FAMILY many individuals using these programs: HISTORY RESEARCH? FamilySearch Certified Affiliates are third-party companies that provide products and services with features that are compatible with FamilySearch Uploading and syncing are two different programs. Certification indicates the affiliate’s things. "Syncing" between nFS and a software declaration of compliance with FamilySearch program means you are updating your family requirements. Note that these products and tree on nFS right from your software program services are independently developed and and vice versa. Perhaps you are working in supported by their respective organizations, not by RootsMagic (RM) and have added a few FamilySearch. To see a list of certified software names or dates that you found from programs and Internet links to their Web sites, researching. You are then able to "sync" this click this link: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/affiliates/index.html. new information with nFS. Then let's say you have completed some temple ordinances and New FamilySearch features that can be certified they are updated on nFS but not your are Access, Helper (assist others), Multi- database. You can "sync" (transfer) this Language, Ordinance Reservation, Ordinance information into your RM program from nFS. Request, Ordinance Status, PAF Add-In, Print, You are NOT uploading large files, and the Research Wiki, Print Service (poster-size reports), nFS checks for duplicates anyway. Here is a Synchronization (between new FamilySearch and good little video that shows how RM "syncs" personal database), and Update (publish new data with nFS. [Sync=synchronize] to FamilySearch). New FamilySearch and all http://www.rootsmagic.com/FamilySearch/Tut affiliate programs access the same database, but the affiliates add features to help users perform orials/RM4_FSSync.aspx new FamilySearch functions. The affiliates also Joyce perform some functions not yet available in new FamilySearch, such as print charts and reports, and Which FamilySearch Certified download data from new FamilySearch. Affiliate Software is Best for Me? Do I have to use one of these affiliate programs? No. If you wish, you can work directly from within new FamilySearch, but the affiliate This issue of Genealogy News will feature programs may help simplify and speed up your information about third-party affiliates. That work, especially that of synchronizing your means the different software that The Church personal database with new FamilySearch and vice of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has versa. certified to work compatibly with new Family Search. A few months ago, our family history So, which FamilySearch Certified Affiliate consultant chat line asked us to contribute our Software is best for me? Well, that depends a lot opinions about different software programs. on you. Does your computer use a Windows At first the webmaster tried to make a graph. operating system or is it a Mac? Are you willing to Eventually she decided to write a narrative. change to another genealogy software program, or are you happy with the one you already have? Answers to these questions will help lead you 1 towards the right affiliate program for you. This having the best listing tool and the most document will comment on five programs: comprehensive synchronizing, which means there Ancestral Quest 12.1, FamilyInsight, RootsMagic are more ways to sync, and you’ll see more of the 4, MagiKey Family Tree and Legacy Family Tree, NFS data while syncing. It includes a built in all of which have established telephone support utility for downloading ancestral lines from new lines and online tutorials or videos to help you get FamilySearch, and an Ordinance Reservation and started. Tracking System that helps you reserve ordinances and maintain your ordinance card inventory. Other affiliate programs not discussed here include Ancestral Quest offers a 60-day free trial – not a several utilities that access new FamilySearch and limited “basic” version, but the full program. The provide one or more certified features. Some are purchase price is $29.95. Web-based, some associated with popular Last edited 3/2/10 genealogy Web sites, and some are stand-alone programs to be used from home computers. New FamilyInsight (Win/Mac) opens your PAF affiliate programs are being certified on a regular database, PAF backup or a GEDCOM from any basis, so be sure to check family history database manager and uses it to http://www.familysearch.org/eng/affiliates/index.h search new FamilySearch. During the time tml frequently. Links to affiliate Web sites can be FamilyInsight is in use, the PAF program cannot found by following the above link. be used with that same file. This is to prevent loss of data if you were to edit the file in both Personal Ancestral File (Win) has been available programs simultaneously. FamilyInsight can be for many years as a free download and was last accessed through the tools menu in PAF 5 or by updated in 2002. The LDS Church will continue to opening a file directly into FamilyInsight. When support this product, but no further upgrades will FamilyInsight closes, data is saved back to your be provided. PAF remains a good, solid program, PAF database, a new file, or as a new file type or but lacks some of the features newer programs name. GEDCOMs can be saved to various have. Some fields added by affiliate programs are GEDCOM formats without loss of data. You can saved, but cannot be viewed in PAF. If you are add new data fields, notes, sources, information or using Personal Ancestral File for your personal new individuals in FamilyInsight, either manually database and want to continue to do so, consider or by updating from new FamilySearch or from Ancestral Quest or FamilyInsight. Both these other files. LDS Confirmation and Initiatory fields programs work with PAF and can be accessed cannot be viewed in PAF but are saved and will from the PAF Tools menu after installation. show when the file is opened in FamilyInsight the next time. FamilyInsight is multilingual and is Ancestral Quest (Win) is the program the LDS noted for its thorough duplicate record match Church selected as the base for Personal Ancestral capabilities. It has been ranked as best standardizer File 4 and 5, so there are a lot of similarities (of place names) and best separator. It is the only between the two programs. If you are a PAF user, program that will let you separate incorrectly- AQ will look and feel like a major upgrade to PAF combined records on FamilySearch easily and 5. You’ll enjoy using the familiar charts and remain working in the program at the same time. reports, advanced filtering, and other screens. When you synchronize a record with new You’ll find new capabilities and reports, including FamilySearch, FamilyInsight will combine on new the ability to synchronize your PAF data with new FamilySearch those records you marked as FamilySearch, spell-check notes, record research matches, add new individuals and information to tasks, direct lookups on Ancestry.com and the your file, and copy data from your file to new ability to work on a single master file with FamilySearch. You can reserve names for relatives. If you are new to family tree software, ordinances or assign them to the temple to do. you will find AQ to be a complete, easy-to-use Ordinance Tracker, on the Family Insight tools program that will handle your needs and give you menu, uses simple drag and drop to assign names lots of extras. AQ can use the same PAF data file to the temple, print Family Ordinance Requests, or that is used by PAF 5, so you can use AQ by itself unreserved names. as a replacement for PAF, or if you prefer to continue to use PAF 5, AQ can be used alongside RootsMagic 4 (Win) is a full-featured of PAF to synchronize your PAF database with genealogy software that won the 2009 new FamilySearch. Ancestral Quest is ranked as FamilySearch awards for “Easiest to
2 synchronize with FamilySearch” and “Best Deluxe edition are also in the free Standard FamilySearch Dashboard.” RootsMagic can Edition. directly import from Personal Ancestral File, FamilySearch, and other programs to quickly If you are still undecided about which software get you up-and-running. Most RootsMagic you should use with new FamilySearch, download the free or trial versions and try them out using a users use it as their main personal database, copy of your personal database. Be sure to keep a but data may be brought back into PAF using good backup of your current database before you a GEDCOM file. In July 2009, Family Tree begin experimenting. Lest you long for features Magazine wrote, “Probably the best all- your chosen software does not have, keep in around genealogy program, RootsMagic offers mind that developers are working hard to keep up a winning combination of features for both with the competition, and your software may soon casual and serious genealogists.” With screens have the features you desire. And remember, you that are clean and easy to navigate, can always call your friendly family history RootsMagic includes tools to find and fix consultant or stop in at the local family history problems, print charts and reports, and find center to try out the affiliate programs and and reserve missing temple ordinances. Other possibly get help evaluating them. Last edited 3/2/10 By Ileen Johnson features include running RootsMagic directly [email protected] from a USB drive, a SourceWizard which writes source citations for you, integrated web Note: Ileen Johnson is the webmaster for a search, book publishing, creating Shareable family history consultant chat line. She asked CDs, and more. While the full version of the FH consultants to give her input on the RootsMagic sells for $29.95, a completely various third party affiliates. Ileen has done free version named "RootsMagic Essentials" an excellent job of telling us the highlights of is also available which includes all of the each program. She has attempted to be FamilySearch features of the full version. unbiased in her reporting and does not endorse one program over another. As she says, “You MagiKey Family Tree (Win) is a new application need to experiment and try out the programs that uses a GEDCOM file, so there is no need to yourself.” convert your database when exporting or backing up your file. It is a great option for performing temple reservations, reviewing ordinance status, Here is a link to an article from the “Mormon opening helper mode, and pushing up or pulling Times” section of the Deseret News that down information from FamilySearch without should be of interest to you for your FHCs. leaving the program. To help their users, they have The title is “/Apps complement FamilySearch online tutorials, an extensive help system, and new research.” release updates at least once a month to stay The article is an overview of the different nFS current as FamilySearch changes. Although the certified software programs. There are now interface has been designed for a beginner programs from an iPhone app to Windows and genealogist, it has many research features for Mac programs. enthusiasts. Cost is $29.95 30 Day Free Full Version Trial. http://mormontimes.com/mormon_living/fami Legacy Family Tree (Win) has recently ly_history/?id=14005 published version 7.4.06 containing some new Sue Maxwell FamilySearch features with a promise of more to come soon. Legacy users can expect frequent updates until the official release of Version 7.5. Legacy will directly import a PAF file, and keeps PAF's RIN and MRIN numbers. The program is multi-lingual. Legacy comes in the Deluxe Edition ($29.95) and also in a free Standard Edition. The same new FamilySearch features that are in the
3 There isn't time to do a "sales pitch" for all available programs. I felt perfectly fine in selecting one, demonstrating the kinds of things available in third-party programs, and suggesting that they all go out and research which program will be best for their particular needs. I teach at BYU, and we have just this semester moved to teaching RootsMagic4 to our students. The decision was made for various BYU OPTS FOR ROOTSMAGIC WITH reasons, but we have ended teaching PAF FAMILY HISTORY CLASSES because it is not going to move forward. We felt it was a disservice to our students to teach As consultants, we need to meet the needs of them an outdated program. I feel the same the members of our ward. We are all in way about teaching in the ward. If the different situations. I do not follow the lessons members are going to move forward with this in the Members' Guide in Sunday School work, they need a program that will move because of my particular ward situation. forward with the Church's new tool--nFS. Nobody would come. I have mostly long-time PAF will not be doing that. I am concerned members of the Church who have been about the statement that PAF is the "recom- involved in basic research for years. As it is, mended software." Please give us a citation to the Stake Presidency called our High Priest that "recommendation." I have not seen that, Group Leader into his office on Sunday, and that statement goes contrary to everything because he wanted to know what we were else I've heard. PAF is not being discontinued, doing. He feels we have a "flagship" program but it is also not moving forward. In this high- running in our ward. tech world of ours, how long do you think that I am teaching ward members how to use new will last? The Church is certifying multiple FamilySearch. I don't know how you can use third-party programs to fill this need, and I do it appropriately without a personal database. not hear them "recommending" PAF at this What do they do in nFS if they don't have point at all. They won't abandon it, but the their own records to compare it to? decision to not move forward is a way to How do they know who to combine or phase it out--in my opinion. separate? What do they correct if they don't Just some thoughts, have research to support what they are Jill Crandell changing? How are they submitting ordinance BYU Professor work if they don't know anything about the people other than a green arrow? The reality is that if we are going to use this new tool well, NEW VERSION OF ROOTSMAGIC it actually takes more work than it ever has SYNCS AUTOMATICALLY before to "do it I teach nFS. I teach research. I teach third- RootsMagic 4 software announced in March party programs, because you can't sync with an upgrade to both their regular RootsMagic 4 nFS without them. If we stay with PAF only, and the free RootsMagic Essentials. Both you can't sync. Even with PAF, you would products let a user access new FamilySearch have to demo FamilyInsight to sync. How is and exchange information between the that more appropriate than demonstrating two. RootsMagic, Legacy, Ancestral Quest, etc? I Before anyone at a FHC (or at home) can have done a demo on RootsMagic in Sunday access RootsMagic starting Monday (after the School, and I have not done the same for the nFS update is released which is supposed to other programs. be just after midnight) all copies of Roots Magic must be updated. An email from 4 FamilySearch to the centers said that the QUESTIONS ABOUT ROOTSMAGIC update will not make it to LanDesk by Monday, so FHCs should download the AutoMatch sounds impressive but it raises a update from the RootsMagic website. Also number of questions. announced was a new feature called AutoMatch. AutoMatch will connect to nFS - Did RM combine records when appropriate - and attempt to match each person in your in my opinion this is the reason for database to the same person in nFS. I want to synchronizing. If this step is avoided, why share my experience since yesterday when synchronize/match in the first place. the software was released. - Did RM copy information from your data to nFS, and did RM copy from nFS to your data? Here are my numbers after using the I would want some control over this, and I AutoMatch feature. I have 18,016 people in would want to determine which data I retain. this database. I already had 8,282 matched. - Did RM overwrite any of my data? That left 9,734 not matched. - Did RM copy all my notes to nFS? Some of my notes should be copied, but some are The AutoMatch feature went through those private. 9,734 in just about 18 hours. That averaged out to about 540 records checked each hour. My concern with RM in general is that it (That would fluctuate depending on your makes assumptions and does what it thinks internet connection). Out of the 9,734 records, best for you. I don't trust automatic actions 1,795 were living people and 6,861 matched like this. up. I only have 1,078 that did not match. Included in the 1,078 records are those that are Maybe someone would auto match a smaller new people I need to add to new Family database and determine exactly what RM does Search, OR my information is so different and answer the above questions. Eric from what is in nFS that the AutoMatch feature could not determine if my person was Answer: This AutoMatch feature just copies in nFS. I’m so impressed! That's only about the PID number to RM. Now I can go back at 10% of my previously unmatched people that my leisure and do the Share Data portion of I need to focus on right now! the process. RM does NOT auto-combine during the AutoMatch process. It took me about one year of work to match the first 8,282 records! What a time saver! Why sync/match? I want to focus on my Great job RootsMagic! research, and this process narrowed that down specifically to those that are most likely not Sue Maxwell included in nFS right now, or those that are very confusing and need much more effort. At RootsMagic 4 received awards for "Easiest to least I now know which people are in nFS for Sync" and "Best Dashboard" at the 2009 sure and can narrow down my workload. FamilySearch Developer Awards. Video tutorials, demonstrating how easy it is to work with New FamilySearch using RootsMagic 4 are available at RM did NOT overwrite any of my data. It http://www.rootsmagic.com/fs. only copies the PID number into RM so that RM knows the person(s) is on nFS. This step does NOT copy any info over to nFS.
HAPPY There are three steps in RMs process. First you match, then you Share Date, then you do SPRING!! the ordinance work. So very simple.
5 Again, about your concern that RM makes assumptions. I know that RM is OVERLY cautious about the merges it makes in the program, and in this feature, ONLY the PID number is added to RM. You can un-match any person at any time. You can also click a button "Show in FamilySearch" and it opens your browser and takes you directly to the person you are working on.
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Much of history is depicted on the murals displayed in historical sites and painted on buildings to commemorate historic events in the county. While York County was active in most wars, noticeably absent are murals about the Civil War. McClure pointed out that the county was predominately Democratic, and that the majority of the county voted against Abraham Lincoln. York County also did not like the war and surrendered to General Early on 23 June 1863.
YORK DAILY RECORD EDITOR ADDRESSES STGC ON YORK COUNTY
“Dig deeper and learn more” was the theme of York Daily Record editor James McClure’s presentation to the Susquehanna Trail Genealogy Club on 22 April at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2100 Hollywood Drive, York, PA. His advice to a Only about half the eligible York County room of 40 genealogists and historians was to males participated in the Civil War. What that get to know your county, and you will become would mean to the genealogist looking for a better acquainted with your ancestors. male ancestor during that time period would McClure first wanted to remind us of the be that military records for York County important history of York, having served as would be helpful for most wars except the the meeting place for the Continental Civil War. What is missing from the murals, Congress from September 1777 to June 1778 such as women, is also revealing of the and thus serving as the unofficial capital of the customs of the time. United States for 9 months. In November During WWII, York became famous for the 1777 Congress approved the draft of the York Plan, which was a system for Articles of Confederation in York. cooperation to mobilize small industry to help to win the war. York made an important contribution with that plan, and this led into the important industrialization that has put York County on the map.
6 From murals to old buildings, McClure moved to a photo of the Children’s Home of York and mentioned that when seeking York County ancestors, the genealogist might find some of his ancestors housed in this benevolent site.
McClure showed this photo of the intersection in Freysville, which he said is representative of many small towns in the county. “Three churches - Lutheran, United Church of Christ and United Methodist congregations - are bunched in Children’s Home of York City, York, PA the crossroad village of Freystown. These trios of Christian denominations are located in many York From there he moved to market houses and County towns.” Yorktownsquare.com had the audience name the five original As the family history sleuth digs deeper, he farmers’ markets. Since about half of York is should also mine local histories. He listed farmland, the county has long been one of the books that the researcher should read to get to leading crop producers in the state along with know his ancestors better: Lancaster County on the east side of the Recommended reading list Susquehanna River. Seeking ancestors, the “250th Chronicles,” York, Pa. , 1999. researcher would probably find that many “ Lewis Miller, Sketches and from the County would have been involved in Chronicles,” 1966. farming and farmers’ markets, which remain a “ Enterprising Images, The Goodridge tradition in York County. Land records would Brothers, African America be helpful in finding where their families Photographers, 1847-1922,” John V. lived. Jezierski, 2000. When studying the history of ancestors, the “ Children of the Circuit Riders,” researcher should not neglect churches. Georg R. Sheets, 1985. McClure stated in his blog: “Understand the national origin of York County churches, and one “ Crossroads, A History and can deduce where the first settlers in a region Reminiscences,” 1999. came from. All three churches in Freysville are of June Burke Lloyd, “Faith and Family,” German origin. (Methodism came from England, 2001. but many Methodists in the county came from a German branch.) Germans primarily settled in “An Autobiography of A.B. Farquhar,” the central valleys of the county. The Scots-Irish 1922. migrated in great numbers to the southeastern Jim Rudisill’s “York Since 1741,” corner, as many Presbyterian churches attest. 1991. English Quakers put down stakes in the northern Scott Mingus’ “Flames Beyond part of the county - the Redlands. At least three Quaker meeting houses stand today. Roman Gettysburg,” 2009 Catholics moved from Conewago Chapel, in Scott Butcher’s ‘York’s Historic present-day Adams County, to York and other Architecture,’ 2008 points east. A small Jewish group lived in York Much of York County is also preserved in County in the pre-Revolutionary War era. Religious people have long made York County microfilm. McClure discussed obituaries and home, as the estimated 500 houses of worship where they can be found and what information within its borders indicate.” they provide for the genealogist. If the researcher is seeking obituaries, he can go to 7 the York Heritage Trust. The YDR has turned much of its microfilm collection over to the Heritage Trust. Jerry Ellis, who is employed by the PA archives and also a member of the STGC, also mentioned that microfilm is the choice of preservation for the PA Archives because it will last over 100 years while digitized records have less than 20 years preservation. These establishments house records of the past: York County Heritage Trust is go-to McClure also recommended sites to find a place host of historical records: York Daily Record and predecessors http://www.ydr.com/history/ci_123045 back to 1815 63 York Dispatch back to 1876 http://www.ydr.com/history Martin Library no longer carries He also gave us tips on how to search for microfilm information on the websites suggested. Another area to study is the road system. On an old map of York County, we learned that York was a point which many immigrants moved through to go to other parts of the country, so we may find ancestry in York County for a period of years while early settlers lived here before deciding to migrate elsewhere. The presentation ended with this photo of York County:
McClure also gave us places to post queries about our ancestors: 1. Weekly Record – News @ydr.com 2. The Exchange – http://exchange.ydr.com/
3.Commenting - McClure ended with the question, “What does http://www.topix.net/forum/source/yor this photo say about York County life? The k-daily- gray building to the right is the old farmer’s record/TFQ19UPTOT7HEFUF8 grange building. In this agricultural 4. Blogs – www.yorktownsquare.com organization, both men and women took an 5. Twitter – www.twitter.com equal part. The grange building was torn down 6. Facebook – www.facebook.com and replaced by a bank. Ironically, the bank that razed the grange was the Farmers Bank. At one time this meeting place for farmers who were producing home-grown crops stood close to McDonald’s, a business which
8 perpetuated fast foods bought in bulk from dogs OR cats some other part of the country. What irony! allows pages with at least one of the terms The audience enjoyed Jim McClure’s • OR requires at least one of the terms joined by it to presentation and came away with a better appear somewhere in the document, in any order. “African Americans” OR blacks understanding of how the history of a locality ear OR nose OR throat can benefit the family historian who wants to • The more words you enter connected by OR, the find his roots and understand the lifestyle and more documents you get. challenges of those who have gone before. Broadens the search.. Photos from James McClure’s “”Dig Deeper, Learn • USES: More” Presentation to the STGC The OR operator is generally used to join similar, equivalent, or synonymous concepts. "global warming" OR "greenhouse effect" AND (default) dogs AND cats is the small overlap where both terms occur • AND is the default and only needs to be typed if you are using other Boolean operators with ( ). infopeople training is logically the same as infopeople and training • The more words you enter connected by AND, the fewer documents you get. All your words will be searched on Speaker James McClure surrounded by STGC PR • USES: Committee – Frank Long on left and Sylvia The AND operator is generally used to join different Sonneborn on right. kinds of concepts, different aspects of the question. Basic Search Tips and Advanced "global warming" AND "sea level rise" AND Boolean Explained California Created by Joe Barker, Teaching Library, University of California, Berkeley When using a search engine, there are certain May be reproduced for non-profit educational tricks that you can use to get the results you purposes want. This discussion explains some of the Advanced Boolean Explained hints. OPERATOR: BASIC SEARCHING EXAMPLES WHAT IT DOES & WHEN TO USE IT AND NOT Quotation marks around a cluster of words or a name dogs AND NOT cats excludes pages that mention “ ” cats, even if they also mention dogs • Requires words to search as a phrase, in the exact • Excludes documents containing whatever follows order you type them. it. “working mothers” • The AND NOT operator is generally used after you ”affirmative action” have performed a search, looked at the results, and Common Words Usually Ignored determined that you do not want to see pages + or “ ” containing some word or phrase. to search them • USES: • Search which versus that. The AND NOT operator should be used with Only versus is searched on. Which and that are extreme caution, because it eliminates the entire ignored. page, and some pages may be of value to you for • To require common words to be searched: other information they contain. I almost never use +which versus +that “and not” for this reason. ”which versus that” "global warming" AND "sea level rise" AND NOT Excluding California - The first two terms must be somewhere -word and any page containing California will be thrown -“phrase in quotes” out. “acute pancreatitis” diet –cat –dog –“pancreatic NEAR: cancer” dogs NEAR cats OR allows more than one term requires both terms, OR: 9 like AND, with the added requirement that they be within 16 words of each other Available in Exalead.com only SITE ADDRESS and NAME SITE • Requires the term following it to occur within DESCRIPTION SEARCH TIPS certain proximity of the preceding word in the AND STRATEGIES search. In Exalead.com, NEAR requires the terms to Ancestry www.ancestry.com (partial be within 16 words of each other in either direction. collection available at Family History Center; • Joining words by NEAR gives you fewer documents than AND, because it requires the words also available at some public libraries) to be closer together. fhc.familysearch.org Collection includes • USES: Census, Military, BMD, Submitted Family The NEAR operator is used when you want to Trees, Immigration records, City directories, require that certain terms appear in the same Obituaries, Maps, Newspapers, more Select sentence or paragraph of the document. "Standard" query form. When searching "global warming" NEAR "sea level rise" - Requires census, try entering the first name only or the the two phrases to occur within 16 words of each last name only. Narrow search by entering age other, in either direction. ( ) range, state and county and possibly birthplace Parentheses: of the individual. "Nesting" • Require the terms and operations that occur inside www.glorecords.blm.gov Bureau of Land them to be searched first. This is called "nesting." Management - General Land Office database • Parentheses MUST BE USED to group terms of original land patents for the states and joined by OR when there is any other Boolean territories which the Federal Government operator in the search. controlled after the Revolutionary War ended "global warming" AND "sea level rise" AND (California OR "pacific coast*") - Requires first two (30 states). Search for a patentee using either terms somewhere in all documents, and either the whole name or last name only. Wild card California or pacific coast. to use is percent sign (%). Can be used after • Parentheses also MUST BE USED with NEAR: just one letter, if desired. Narrow search by ("global warming" NEAR "sea level rise") AND selecting state and county. View Patent (California OR "pacific coast*") - Requires sea level Description, Legal Land Description and rise to be within 16 words of global warming; the Document Image by clicking the tabs. rest can be anywhere in the pages. The parentheses guarantee that the effect of near stops with sea level rise. http://labs.familysearch.org LDS Labs - Pilot You do not need or even want to get very Site - In progress: volunteer project to complicated with Boolean searching in web transcribe microfilmed vital records, census searching. records, etc. in Family History Library Searching the web is free, and several simpler collection. Try search multiple ways on each searches take less time than a humongous search. person you're searching for: first name only Moreover, with complicated searches, you often don't know which parts of the search worked and search, then last name only search. Filter which did not. Simpler searches can more easily be results with dropdown options at top of the compared with one another, and you know what form. Also try 'Exact, close and partial search, worked. and use filters to specify Place and beginning letter of name, gender, record collection, etc. The new FamilySearch system changes the dynamics Use wild card search for first and last names. of family history work by facilitating the creation of After at least the first 3 letters of the name, use one common pedigree. In the past, a person worked separately, keeping his or her own family records. an asterisk (*) to stand for an unlimited One often worked without knowing what other number of letters; use (?) to stand for a single family members were doing. Now each person can letter. Also, try a search using the last name contribute information while coordinating with only and a search using the first name only. others in developing their family tree. 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10 approximate date of birth, name of father, the next line you might put a county or town mother or spouse. name. Try using all forms for Ellis Island search: Heritage Quest (available at Family History White Form, Gold Form and Form for Ellis Center and through some public libraries) Island Manifests. It's a good idea to use the US census collection includes most but not all Name Starts With" option as well as the years; Scanned books, Revolutionary War "Name Sounds Like" option on both first and files, Freedman’s Bank Records, PERsi index last names of the passenger. You can select as (searches genealogical periodical articles). Not many ethnicity choices as you need. The an every-name index. So one can search only results list will take you directly to the Ellis for head of household. Island web site, where you'll need to log on in order to view the manifests. Registration is www.freebmd.org.uk Free BMD - In progress: free. volunteer project to transcribe index of births, www.findagrave.com Find A Grave marriages and deaths for England from 1837 - Contains at least 36 million cemetery 1983. Search using last name only, narrowing records. Volunteer project. Free site. search by county if known. When you find a Try searching for last name only if you get no possible match, click on the page number to matches. Narrow search at least by country see who else appears on that page. Can use and state; county if necessary. Can also select wild card search (*) and (?). option to search for partial surname. www.familysearch.org Family Search LDS www.seekingmichigan.org Seeking Michigan genealogy site. Includes extracted Library of Michigan and Michigan State vital records, records submitted by church Archives site, including collection of members and patrons, 1880 US census, Michigan death records from 1897-1920, 1881 census for Canada and UK, online Civil War pension records, photographs catalog for the Family History Library in Salt and manuscripts, land patents and more. Lake, extensive research guidance. ONLINE RESOURCES – Search for ancestors using the form on the home page. No wild card search, but site FAVORITES automatically will search for alternate spellings of both first and last names. Try Sites specializing in Genealogy separate searches using first name and then www.accessgenealogy.com using middle name or even nickname with the www.ancestorhunt.com surname. For date of the event, use a range of www.cyndislist. +/- 5 or 10 years instead of the exact date. www.genealogypages.com www.genealogy-search-help.com www.stevemorse.org Steve Morse site - www.geneasearch.com Great site to search for and link to Ellis Island www.gengateway.com passenger lists. The forms for entering queries www.genserv.com allow a lot of flexibility and make for more www.gensource.com effective searching. This is also a good site to www.nedgem.com search for Social Security Death Records and www.rootsweb.com search for living individuals as well. www.surnameweb.org Use the Advanced Search form to manage http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com your query. It seems to be most effective if http://genealogy.about.com you choose one record type to search at a http://genealogytrails.com/ time. Try putting the person's full name in the General Search Sites top line and choose "Any of the words" from www.google.com the drop-down menu to the left of the line. On www.search.com www.dogpile.com 11 www.yahoo.com www.us-census.org – US GenWeb census www.googleguide.com - great tips and search project strategies for searching with Google Obituary www.afrigeneas.com/aacensus - volunteer project, pre-1870 census schedules Search Sites www.familysearch.org – free search of 1880 www.legacy.com www.obitlinkspage.com US census and 1881 for the UK and Canada www.findagrave.com – mainly internments, Genealogy Database Sites but obituaries are added for some individuals www.genesreunited.co.uk/genesreunited.asp - UK - Some free areas, some for-fee areas White page Directories – Locating People www.gencirles.com www.att.com/directory http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com www.switchboard.com www.whitepages.com www.ancestry.com – subscription – is http://bigfoot.com/en/index.jsp available at some public libraries. Partial www.stevemorse.org (links on his page to collection is available at FHC; or access the People Search, etc.) whole collection at the FHL, Salt Lake City. www.facebook.com www.biblerecords.com Chat Sites www.internment.net http://genealogy.about.com/library/blchatsche www.heritagequest.com – subscription site d.htm available at some libraries and at the FHC www.afrigeneas.com/chat www.worldvitalrecords.com – subscription www.geocities.com/genpals.2002/ site available at Family History Centers (use http://chatgenealogy.com this URL at Family History Centers: Mailing Lists www.fhc.familysearch.org) http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/roots-l/ http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start Records – Resources .html#start – ongoing volunteer project allows http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/w2w.htm - details viewing indexes and images of records of the requesting official vital records Family History Library’s collection. www.loc.gov – Library of Congress site Also access this collection at www.archives.gov/genealogy - National www.familysearch.org by clicking on the Archives site word “Records” or “Indexes” under the www.archives.gov/research/arc - National Heading “Start Your Family History” on the Archives catalog (50% of national holdings) home page. Be sure to revisit this site often, www.glorecords.blm.gov – Government Land since new records are being added all the time. Office – public domain land patents site www.kindredkonnections.com – subscription www.stevemorse.org – what I call a MEGA- site; available free at FHC’s site. Wonderful links and research aids! www.footnote.com – subscription; available � On-Line Resources free at FHC’s Census Research www.godrey.org – Godfrey Memorial Library http://censuslinks.com – subscription; available free at FHC’s www.archives.ca – for Canadian census www.findmypast.com – subscription site records www.freebmd.org.uk – in-progress index of www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/1911/in births, marriages, deaths in the UK, 1837- dex-e.html - 1911 Canadian census 1983 www.census-online.com www.ellisisland.org – Ellis Island site; most http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/index. flexible search forms at html - index for 1901 Canadian census www.stevemorse.org www.genealogy.com/uscensussub.html - www.deathindexes.com – on line searchable subscription site death records indexes www.heritagequest.com – subscription site www.africanaheritage.com – volunteer-run www.ancestry.com – subscription site – most site of various records of African Americans complete and most flexible ways to search www.freemensbureau.com 12 www.okhistory.org/research/dawes/index.php and parents. To show the links for children of - searchable Dawes Rolls Index a person, the child's memorial has to be www.accessgenealogy.com/native entered and then the parents' memorial www.jewishgen.org numbers are added. www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk – free searches, I also like the fact that other researchers have but access to images and copies fee-based posted photographs of deceased relatives Other Helpful Sites which my family didn't have. This is www.iarelative.com – site for Eastern Europe particularly true on my husband's LDS research ancestors. It is wonderful to see the faces of www.mipolonia.net – Help for Michigan these ancestors and learn more about their researchers with Polish roots lives through the biographies and floral www.multimap.com – Great mapping site, tributes. with street-level detail of many European Other photographs can be of the actual cities headstones. Some of the participants on Find www.worldcat.org – Worldwide catalog of A Grave just go to cemeteries and take photos collections at libraries and institutions of headstones to upload to the sight. These http://education.usgs.gov/common/resources/g participants might not even be related to the enealogy_usgs.pdf deceased, but it is a helpful task for the http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/ relations. Participants can even request a www.terraserver.com – mapping site photo of a particular headstone. www.directlinesoftware.com/landref.htm - Find A Grave is a great way to provide Good site for understanding land records information for other researchers. Last night, www.adopteeforum.com – links to search for instance, I found information on more sites, message boards and stories abt adoptees. descendants of an ancestor. Now I have death http://adoptionsearcher.com – Adoption dates for these individuals to add to nFS. Search and Reunion with links to over a Mary Scott, Northville Ward, Westland thousand sites. Posted by Nancy Gilbert Michigan Stake FIND A GRAVE Kimberly Powell in her AboutGenealogy.com I have been using Find A Grave has this following link for us. Try it for info (www.findagrave.com) for over seven years. about Irish research. Although I am not an expert, I have found another step to add to this conversational thread. If you click on the submitter's name 12 Top Web Sites for Researching link, it will lead you to their profile page. You Irish Ancestors can then write them a message either through Researching your Irish ancestors online can Find a Grave or directly IF they have an email be difficult as there is no one-stop Web site address listed. with vast quantities of Irish family history If a submitter entered someone close to records. Yet many sites offer valuable data another person, the original submitter is also for researching Irish ancestry in the form of able to transfer the ownership of the memorial extractions, transcriptions and digitized to the second person. images. This past year I have had some contact with * * * * * other researchers. They have given me information to add or edit on the memorials I have created none for my husband's LDS ancestors. There are some wonderful features about Find While temple and family history work has the A Grave. I like the links to other memorials power to bless those beyond the veil, it has which are possible now. The important thing an equal power to bless the living. It has a is to know the memorial number of spouses refining influence on those who are engaged 13 in it. They are literally helping to exalt their New Family Search will become Family Tree families. and have its own Tab. You will be able to add sources into New Family Search eventually We are exalted when we can dwell together (probably after it’s Family Tree) but add them with our extended families in the presence of into the Family Tree part of the program that Almighty God. The Prophet Joseph Smith exists. foresaw our duty: “The great day of the Lord * * * * * is at hand . . . ,” he said. “Let us, therefore, as In the Training Meeting in Orem, Utah, on the a church and a people, and as Latter-day th Saints, offer unto the Lord an offering in 20 of March that I attended -where people righteousness; and let us present in his holy came from Salt Lake who were over Indexing temple . . . a book containing the records of and Record Search - we were told the Temple our dead, which shall be worthy of all Dept does not want the old cards to expire – acceptation.”1 old cards will be grandfathered in for now – then eventually handled as to when and how The preparation of that record is our individual they will expire. and collective responsibility. As we work * * * * * together, we can make it worthy of all The 2nd release of New Family Search from acceptation by the Lord. That record enables now will have “Discussions” which will ordinances to be performed for and accepted replace Disputes. People can chat back and by our deceased ancestors, as they may choose. Those ordinances can bring liberty to forth about their differences of opinion. In the captives on the other side of the veil. meantime, DON’T DISPUTE any information. It creates more problems than it Russell M. Nelson, Quorum of the Twelve solves and stops anyone from correcting things. Just add another opinion. * * * * * Try this site: For Indexing you can find extra help at BYU http://desktop.familysearchsupport.org/ Script Tutorials where you can learn enough to index in others languages. Just type in Notes and Information Presented at Google “script BYU.” Right now the the Family History Consultant languages are English, German and Dutch with more to come. You can learn the Training Class in Las Vegas on alphabet of the language, learn about the March 24, 2010 handwriting, and phrases to allow you to index in other languages. Popular Scams about Your Family Names and * * * * * Coat of Arms. Don’t fall for them – they Be sure to use “Share a Batch” where you can really are scams and you won’t get what you get someone else to look at the record you’re paid for. indexing if you need a 2nd opinion. Try * * * * * intermediate records. Suggest they have Be sure you have registered for your LDS callings as indexers in your ward for people Account which will allow you to access the who are homebound or can’t hold another Stake and Ward websites; FamilySearchBeta calling. or Labs; Family Search Indexing; Research * * * * * Wiki, Family Search; and eventually Forums The “Dream” of Record Search is: 1. Type in (a new site coming that will be for questions a name, 2. Search millions of records, 3. See and answers). Non-members can sign up for a original document image, 4. Merge document Family Search Account (will not be able to image into your database. The Team is on see temple ordinances). How wonderful to track to realize that dream. Be sure you are have one user name and password to access using: http://labs.familysearch.org. these different accounts. * * * * * * * * * * 14 Newspaper Search Tips – type in Google or 7. Geni.com (networking) Bing – newspaper archives free 8. Footnote.com 1. Search by surname only, 2. Use 9. Ancestor Hunt.com (link list) subject keywords, 3. Search by date 10. OneGreatFamily.com and newspaper, 4. Don’t limit your 11. Genealogy Today.com (good) search to births, marriages & obits, 5. 12. WorldVitalRecords (less than Search for family members or Ancestry) neighbors, 6. Search by address, 7. Use 13. AccessGenealogy.com (to free sites) the clues you find to expand your 14. USGennet.org search. 15. Interment.net * * * * * If you haven’t tried some of these, do so and Are You My Mother? – finding maiden names see if they’re helpful to you. by noticing naming patterns of especially the * * * * * oldest children – check Family Bibles – Have you tried Manuscript Collections? Marriage Records – Birth Indexes – Social These collections often have unusual Security applications (death cert may have SS information like letters and journals and fun #) – Death records at funeral home (look for stuff that help you give identity ancestors. siblings) – Cemetery records – Tombstones – Places to look: NUCMC; PERSI; CalCat; Probate Records & Wills. WorldCat; local Archives by local, county, * * * * * state, or religious; Online Archive of RootsMagicToGo allows you to run Roots California; Museums; Historical and Magic from your Flash Drive. It leaves no Genealogical Societies; Private, Public and trace on the other computer when you leave, University Libraries; Google books; Ebay; and it will allow you to sync back to your Manuscript and Archive Collections in the computer. United States – * * * * * http://www.columbia.edu/cu/web/eguides/spe Writing Family Histories ccol.html 1. Write Biographical sketches A big thanks to Lida Larkin at 2. Choose a person on your family tree [email protected] 3. Get all pertinent info FREE FOOTNOTE CENSUSES 4. Turn a timeline into a sketch DURING APRIL 5. Write one page about one experience 6. Announce to family that you’re writing Here's a fun note from Family Tree Magazine: (force you to finish) 7. Consider a Power Point Presentation Search Footnote's Census Records Free 8. Choose your Audience (you will tell Through April story differently for children, so know Posted by Diane who you are reaching) 9. 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So - DO NOT USE the "Remove" button to 2. Have only a husband's name but no given or declutter your list - it will remove the maiden names for wife -- Mrs. Hans Gercken. (Husband's name is Hans Gercken.) 17 find out more information. I hope I can get There is always lots to learn as we pursue some that I am satisfied with. these elusive ancestors, isn't there? Joan in NC Mary Scott Northville Ward To get out of the family tree view, click the Westland Michigan Stake drop-down menu and choose “Family Pedigree with Details” to return to the FAMILY TREE VIEW IN pedigree view. NEW FAMILY SEARCH TEMPLE ORDINANCE PREPARATION If you’re using new FamilySearch, have you looked at the Family Tree view of your I just learned about a new Temple Ordinance family? Just click on “Change View” in the request website, launched yesterday. I took a upper left hand corner. On the drop-down quick look and feel it is one more useful tool menu, click on Family Tree. You can use the in helping get names ready for the temple, and “zipper” to make it larger or smaller. You can maybe share with other temple attending also click on arrows at the end of a line to family members? Take a look when time increase your tree if there are more people permit: www.OneClickTempleTrip.com. showing. It is a lovely, spidery trail from you Thanks, to the ends of your line. And you can print it Lona too. It may take more than one sheet of paper, but you can Tape them together to make one big pedigree. Con’t. TRACKING SHEETS FOR FAMILY A details window appears to the right. HISTORY Whoever is highlighted in the tree will have his details displayed. You can then click to The St. Anthony Idaho FHC has developed a see his family group record, his parents, Ward FH Progress Chart and Spreadsheet spouse, or children. This is a neat part of new program that will let your consultants track the FamilySearch. progress of each family in the ward and then calculate numbers and percentages for A lady from North Carolina writes that she Families Contacted, Registered on new was able to find end-of-line ancestors on her FamilySearch and doing Indexing. Doing this pedigree and now has some people to will enable your HPGL to actually fulfill his collaborate with. Here is her letter: calling because he will now have something to report. We also have made up a nice “I was helping a patron the other night at the Indexing Flyer. FHC with nFS. He had his nFS set up to use the new Family Tree view, and I was curious All we ask in return is some feedback so we because I have not used that option. I liked the can track where it goes and if it does any good way you could keep clicking on the arrows or not and suggestions for improvement. and adding more generations, so I went to the PC next to him and brought up my own nFS to If interested please reply "privately" to see my pedigree in the Family Tree view. [email protected] I found that at least 3 of my end-of-line ancestors have parents. I clicked on one of FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY them, and one of them was updated that very CLASSES NOW ONLINE day. Fortunately, there are email addresses for the submitters, and I intend to email them to 18 The FamilySearch Family History Library is Please choose from one of the following now making its popular classes available at services. FamilySearch.org, where you can access them for free anytime you want. There are 23 Ancestry.com - [The full version is Family History Library classes available only available to Large Multistake FHC's, online for beginners and experienced the limited institutional version is available to all centers with Internet access.] researchers, with subjects ranging from 19th Century British Library European research to United States military Newspaper Digital Archive records. FamilyHistoryLink FindMyPast.com The classes vary in length from 6-58 minutes, Footnote.com with most lasting about 25 minutes. To access The Genealogist.co.uk the classes, go to FamilySearch.org, and click Genline.com (launcher) "Free Online Classes" in the center of the Godfrey Memorial Library page. I went through the German Classes - and Heritage Quest Online -[Only available they were very good! Gave some hints I had to FHCs who qualify) not picked up other places. World Vital Records Submitted by M. Kathleen Felsted Alexander Street Press - The American Civil War: For older copies of Genealogy News, go to o Research Database http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~payork o Letters and Diaries /York2Ward/ o Images, Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera
FH PORTALS FREE AT THE FHC We invite you to come into the local Family History Centers and see if our consultants can Jack and I keep saying that the Family History help you find your ancestors. If you do not Center is the best-kept secret in the Church. know where to find a center, just go to At our centers, we have dedicated volunteers familysearch.org, click on Library and then on duty, ready to help members and non- Family History Center and fill in the location members alike. Some centers just are not to find a center. being used like they should be. Besides microfiche on many records that have been FREE SITES AT THE FAMILY brought into your center as permanent HISTORY CENTER holdings and books on family history, we have a portal with free sites. While home I agree that there are some records on subscriptions cost, at the FH Center, the sites Ancestry that you can't find other places; are free. Not all sites will be loaded onto your however, I really like the sites available particular FHC computer, but these are the through the portal. Yes, it takes a bit more ones that are available: work to go digging because there are many, many different databases, all with their own Available Services search engines. I subscribe at home to many of them, including Ancestry. As time goes by, Please bookmark this site and direct patrons to I find a lot of great records using WVR, always use the bookmark to access these Footnote, Heritage Quest, Godfrey Memorial resources. These services (except (hundred of links to subscriptions sites, free FamilyHistoryLink) require that they be websites, and the Newspaper Archives), 19th accessed via this Family History Center Century newspapers, Historic maps, Services Portal. Alexander Press (Civil War records), etc. 19 It has taken a while to get familiar with the http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gen different records, but they are wonderful. It tutor/ trails.html Source: Early American just takes patience. Roads and Trails, Beverly Whitaker, Kansas City, Missouri, Copyright 2002. Generations Sue Maxwell Newsletter, April 2010, Washington DC Family History Center [email protected] GOOGLE PHONE BOOK MORMON MIGRATION Looking for relatives to correspond with? In the Google search box, enter phonebook: Newly launched BYU Mormon Migration [last name] [state] to get a list of everyone Website (contains free online, all of the with that surname in that state. Example: information currently on the "Mormon "phonebook: Lemon Utah" brings back a list Immigration" CDs). Search for your of 90 individuals. Entering "phonebook: ancestors and find which ships they traveled Lemon Logan Utah" narrows the list to 2. on. The list includes the individual's name, Source: Westra Newsletter 4/1/10 phone number, address and a link to a map. You can even take a "walking tour" by their MORMON IMMIGRATION INDEX home by clicking on the map link and selecting Street view. Note: Criminals can http://lib.byu.edu/mormonmigration/index.php also use this site to find people. Site to check out:http://www.academic- genealogy.com/churchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaintsl Submitted by LaMon Perkes dsmormon.htm
WE NEED TO LEARN FROM What You Can Learn From THESE PIONEERS Your Ancestor's SSN Found an ancestor's Social Security Number "[The early pioneers] came from a great using the Social Security Death Index? Here's diversity of circumstances. All faced the what you can learn from those nine digits: The universal trials and heartaches of life. Their first three digits designate the state or territory determination born of faith to serve the Lord where the number was issued. The next pair of and others seemed to take them not around the digits relate to the sequence in which numbers storms of life but directly into them. Some were issued. The final four digits were were young and some old. They were from assigned chronologically as forms were many lands and peoples, as you are today. But processed. SSNs beginning with 700 to 728 they were of one heart, one mind, and with were used for railroad workers in the Railroad one intention. They were determined to help Retirement system. You can "decode" your the Lord build His Zion." ancestor's SSN using Stephen P. Morse's one- step tool. http://stevemorse.org/ssn/ssn.html Henry B. Eyring, "The Enduring Legacy of Submitted by Barb DeHart, This tip comes Relief Society," Ensign, Nov. 2009, 121–22 from George G. Morgan's Document Detective column in the May 2010 Family MIGRATION TRAILS Tree Magazine.
Have you wondered how your ancestors got Question: from "here" to "there" during the early years in America? This website has excellent maps and charts detailing the major routes that What is WorldCat, and how can it help pioneers took, both north-south and east-west. genealogy researchers? 20 with volunteers who will search and Answer: email you the results. WorldCat is a cooperatively-created online World Family Tree CD help list catalog of materials held in more than 10,000 http://loricase.com/CDs/cdwftlist.html libraries worldwide, including public, Volunteers will conduct searches in the academic, state and national libraries; World Family Tree CDs and email you archives; and historical societies. These the results. libraries have cataloged their regular USGenWeb - Many genweb page collections as well as many special have a list of volunteers who will look collections- including digitized materials- up information, visit cemeteries, take devoted to local history. This makes WorldCat pictures, etc. a unique tool for your research into your heritage. You can access WorldCat at ************************* http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/ NamesInStone.com has recently added new cemeteries from Uintah County, Utah. Check Where to Write for Vital out their great cemetery maps and the ability Records to correct most data. You can even be a part of Links are provided for those users who want it. Genealogists, Families, Boy Scouts and direct access to individual state and territory others can build maps online, enter important information at burial information and upload pictures. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/w2w.htm Talks: http://feeds.lds.org/enrichmentseries Submitted by Barb DeHart Tips: Question: http://www.conigliofamily.com/ConiglioGeneal ogyTips.htm
What is a genealogy help list? U.S. CENSUS SCAM ALERT Answer: A list of volunteers who are willing to help Beginning March of this year the U.S. Census others by looking up specific items at Bureau's will send out a short questionnaire to institutions near them, or help supply other every household in the U.S. and Puerto Rico information easily accessible to them. The in an effort to collect important demographic service is free, but volunteers make ask for data. reimbursement of copies and postage if As a citizen, you are required by law to necessary. Some good examples are: respond to the 10 short questions. From April to July, those that haven't completed their ROARK - http://www.raogk.org/ after census will receive a visit at their home reading the guidelines for making address from a Census taker. Identity requests, click the "Let's go find a criminals are taking advantage of the census volunteer!" button. Select a US state or law and targeting unsuspecting victims in an scroll down and select a country. attempt to steal sensitive information. The Review the types of help available, scams perpetrated range from fraudulent then click on the volunteer's name to emails designed to obtain sensitive email them. information to attempts to impersonate census Genealogical CD Help list - collectors. http://loricase.com/CDs/cdlist.html Most Citizens don't think twice about sharing Hundreds of CD databases are listed personal information with a census worker, 21 and that's why these scams can be very Anyone can volunteer by clicking here. effective. It's important to remember there are Indexing.familysearch.org distinct differences between a real census In an article published recently by the Deseret worker and an identity thief posing as a census News, Paul Nauta gave us an update on the worker. progress of the digitization efforts of the 2.5 U.S. Census workers will have identification, million rolls of microfilm. He stated that a handheld device and a confidentiality notice. "FamilySearch has 185 camera teams filming But these things can be easily fabricated, so 60 million new images annually. Also, the it's important to know what census workers Granite Vaults are having all of their will not do: They will not ask for your Social microfilm (2.5 million rolls) digitized and that Security number or financial information, e.g. process could be completed as early as next bank or credit card accounts. They will not ask year." you for money or say that you owe money. We should all do a Genealogy Happy Dance for the FamilySearch filmers and digitization They will not harass or intimidate you. They teams. Or, even better, signup to help index will not contact you by email- only by phone, these records at FamilySearchIndexing.org. by mail, or in person. It sounds like an elective for the YW personal For more information on this scam or progress program or the Duty to God program variations of it visit the Social Security for the YM. HINT!! Administration’s website at www.ssa.gov. Use the search function and enter keywords "email The Story Tellers....we scam". Source: Better Business Bureau are the chosen... (www.BBB.org) My feelings are in each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To Digitizing the Family History put flesh on their bones and make them live Library's records again, to tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. A Status Report To me doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life DIGITIZING THE FAMILY HISTORY into all who have gone before. We are the LIBRARY RECORDS story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called as it were by our genes. A Status Report Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. The Family History Library has around 2.5 million rolls of microfilm - the largest In finding them, we somehow find collection of genealogical sources anywhere in ourselves. How many graves have I stood the world. A few years ago, FamilySearch before now and cried? I have lost count. announced their plans to digitize, index, and How many times have I told the ancestors publish these records online. Paul Nauta, you have a wonderful family you would be FamilySearch public affairs manager, recently proud of us? How many times have I walked said that their goal is "to create a searchable up to a grave and felt somehow there was world index." love there for me? I cannot say. This searchable world index is actually pro- It goes beyond just documenting facts. It gressing nicely. Its results are being published goes to who am I and why do I do the things to FamilySearch's Record Search databases, I do? thanks to FamilySearch Indexing volunteers. It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying 22 I can't let this happen. The bones here are American Genealogical-Biographical bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It Index (AGBI) goes to doing something about it. Pierce's Register Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary It goes to pride in what our ancestors were Patriots able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. Read the article: Revolutionary War It goes to respecting their hardships and Ancestors losses, their never giving in or giving up, Source: About Genealogy, March 30, 2010, their resoluteness to go on and build a life by Kimberly Powell for their family. HOW TO BRING FAMILIES It goes to deep pride that they fought to TOGETHER WITH FAMILY HISTORY make and keep us a Nation. Getting everyone on new.FamilySearch.org is good. Producing charts from www.treeseek.com and It goes to a deep and immense under- sharing them with everyone is good too. standing that they were doing it for us. That www.photoloom.com for identifying ancestors in we might be born who we are. That we photos. Getting everyone to identify who is who in might remember them. So we do. old photos is entertaining and involves everyone. www.footnote.com/page/110457803_john_henry_cr With love and caring and scribing each fact oss/ is an example of my ancestor on Footnote. of their existence, because we are they and Creating these pages for your ancestors as a family is engaging. they are us. www.blogspot.com is good to create a basic family So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my blog. Creating a Facebook group on www.facebook.com is family. It is up to that one called in the next pretty easy to get the family together, if they are on generation to answer the call and take their Facebook. Photo & video tagging is fun in groups. place in the long line of family storytellers. For those with an iPhone or iPod, mobileTree's media sharing is fun to share photos of everyone in That, is why I do my family genealogy, and the context of the pedigree. You can also use the that is what calls those young and old to step media center without an iPhone. Inviting members up and put flesh on the bones. of the family to see the pictures is always fun.www.mobiletree.comhttp://mobiletree.me/fs_m By Della M. Cummings Wright m_login.php
Researching Rev War Ancestors Posted by Tim Cross on FH Consultants Chat SYLVIA’S GENEALOGY CORNER "The Revolutionary War lasted for eight long years, beginning with the battle between Sadly, a distant cousin of mine died last week British troops and local Massachusetts militia at age 72. I had only met him once. He was at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, on not a member of my church, but he was a 19 April 1775, and ending with the signing of fellow genealogist. Someone gave him my e- the Treaty of Paris in 1783. If you have an mail address about 5 years ago because I write ancestor you believe may have served in the the newsletter for the Barefoot Family. Yes, American Revolution, then an easy way to Barefoot is a last name. My gg-grandmother start is by checking the following indexes to is Elizabeth Barefoot. She married Solomon major Revolutionary War record groups": Hammer, and that’s how I connect to this third cousin. His wife actually is the Hammer, but DAR Patriot Index he did the family history, so he wrote the Index to Revolutionary War Service correspondence. I was able to share a great Records deal of information with him that he did not
23 have and recommend some family history I find it interesting how family history has books for him to purchase. introduced me to distant relatives, many of them not members of my church, but through This 3rd cousin became good friends online, our meeting, we have shared information that and we shared a lot of the Hammer genealogy often results in my being able to do temple and photos. While we were exchanging work for their ancestors. So often, through e- information, he sent me a GEDCOM, which mail, I meet a distant relative who adds a line also had his family line. that I did not have onto my original immigrant’s descendants. As long as the Once our district was on new FamilySearch, I ancestor was born more than 110 years ago, was checking for his line, and about 3 we can do their ordinance work without generations back, I discovered that some of permission. his ancestry was on nFS and that ordinances had been done for them. This cousin and I It is not by chance that we meet. It is by the had talked about the reason Latter-day Saints hand of God that people are brought into our do family history, and I told him about his lives so that we can share with them the truth family’s temple work, even though I knew he that families ARE forever. Sylvia would not fully understand. Being a Protestant, he was in no way interested in Joseph Fielding Smith said, “There is nothing in becoming a Latter-day Saint or Mormon. But my judgment that has been revealed that is more apparent of its fulfillment than the coming he was strangely fascinated about proxy of Elijah, for his spirit has gone forth into the baptism. One day in a letter, he asked me if I world. It is not confined to the members of the intended to input the most current line – his Church, and I am sorry to say, it does not rest parents and grandparents - into new Family upon the members as fully as it ought to, but it is gone forth into the world so that there are Search and do their temple work. I said, “Not thousands of those who do not belong to the without your permission.” In the next e-mail I Church, whose hearts have been turned to their received, he asked me if I would do that so fathers and who are seeking out the records of their dead and preparing them so that we, their that they could be sealed to his gg- children, that is, the children of the dead, may grandparents whose work had already been go into the temples of the Lord and perform the done. He said it sounded comforting to think labors that will give unto those who had no that they could be together forever, and he did opportunity when they were living, to receive the gospel of Jesus Christ, to give them that liberty not want to miss out if it’s true. and privilege, that they, too, might be numbered in the house of Israel and receive the blessings As most relationships among genealogists of eternal life.” (Improvement Era, June 1960, progress, after we had exchanged all the pg. 402) information we had, the correspondence waned. Not too many months ago I received another e-mail in which he told me that he had THIS AND THAT been very sick. He asked me if I would do his temple work when he dies. I joked and told Conferences: him that he would outlive me. But in a sad e- mail last week, I received the note that he had Big NGS Family History Conference passed away. Being Held in Utah
Because Latter-day Saints wait a year after a Click here to see events for this week: person has passed to perform the temple work, http://members.ngsgenealogy.org/C I don’t have to act on this or make a decision onferences/2010Program.cfm at this time. But I’m sure I will grant his request if I am able. April 28 through May 1, 2010
24 Extended Hours at the Family History Accurate and inaccurate information article Library. Spend time researching in a premier library recommended for reading by Dick Eastman: http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/apr/11/tr- collection. The Family History Library will stay open two mormon-web-site-handy-but-be-sure-to-examine- hours later on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday de/ during the conference. A Virtual Tour of the Granite Mountain You can see the new web site at http://gramps- Record Vault. During the opening session, project.org/ FamilySearch will show a new multimedia tour of the vault where it stores master copies of the microfilm Posted by Dick Eastman on April 10, 2010 in Online Sites | Permalink collection. International Workshops. The conference will offer workshops for Eastern Europe, Italy, Denmark, Lida’s tips: Norway, Sweden, and Hispanic countries. Each workshop will combine lectures and hands-on research You can find the past 16 years of Ancestry planning and problem solving, and will include a Magazine on Google Books at prearranged lab time at the Family History Library. Pre- http://books.google.com/books/serial/FTgEA registration is required, but there is no additional fee AAAMBAJ?rview=1&lr=&sa=N&start beyond conference registration. =0 Ask-an-Expert Consultations. Expert researchers will offer advice in areas such as German, http://fultonhistory.com (the info says) This British, and Canadian research as well as general website is a hidden gem! The gentleman who research owns this site has over 11,255,500 Old New Beginner Workshops. For persons beginning York State Historical newspaper pages their research, the conference includes workshops on including Buffalo, NY. Many obituaries, Tuesday, 27 April and Saturday, 1 May. For a minimal marriage and birth announcements to be found fee, beginners will receive excellent instruction. to help with your research. http://www.familysearch.org/ngs2010/ Thanks to Lida Larkin, BALTIMORE FH CONFERENCE To Contact lida larkin The Baltimore Family History Workshop is [email protected] scheduled to be held on Saturday, September 11. It is held in the Essex Ward building. Continue to check out Sue Maxwell’s More info will follow. This is a very well Genealogy Blog - organized event with some really informative http://granitegenealogy.blogspot.com/ classes. Of course, Sylvia and I teach a few. ELDER NELSON’S TALK ON RECOMMENDATION FOR A WEBSITE FAMILY HISTORY IS ON YOUTUBE There are several webrings related to LDS family history. Look at www.webring.com The Church has posted Elder Nelson's talk on They also offer free websites and it is easy to family history, nFS, etc., on Youtube. use most of the programs To build a site( PAF works well). Building a site helps get families http://www.youtube.com/watch? Working together and it is not difficult to do. v=32QEzPeK1MI Steve Kelsey From Family History Expos: CULPEPPER, VIRGINIA, RECORDS “ We encourage you to tell your friends ONLINE about Family History Expos and our free e- newsletter. They can sign up and receive http://www2.starexponent.com/cse/news/local/artic our free e-book at le/court_records_online/55515/ http://www.fhexpos.com/ . 25 the family farms, marriage contracts, many The free e-book is from our Capture the church records, etc. He sent 2 hard copies Memories series, entitled Life in Your Town. plus a CD of many records in German. We hope this book will enrich your family Besides that he translated them all!!! It was history with the memories of your family and friends. a tremendous effort - costly but I'm well Thank you again - Family History Expos - pleased. Unfortunately he could find no http://www.fhexpos.com/” record of emigration for any of the Nikols in the repositories there. He did find a record BETA TESTERS WANTED of her father's arrival in NY in 1887 (which I had already found) but nothing on his return to Germany or the various arrivals of the 3 Ohana Software is looking for beta testers children here. He said lots of valuable who use Family Tree Maker 2010 or Ancestral records had been destroyed. Quest. If you use either of these products and would like to participate in a beta test, please Dot Gard send an email to: [email protected] A Tid-Bit
Thank you, Use OpenOffice to convert jpgs to pdfs. John Vilburn, Ohana Software That’s what I do with census for some people. Not my own since I prefer them in jpgs.
Funeral Records FamilyNotices.org A source that I have found very helpful is The free online repository for all notices of funeral home records. Date of Birth, Date of Births, Deaths, Marriages, Engagements, Death, and address at the time of death are Anniversaries and Missing Persons. Doing it often contained in these records. Some for free - unlike the newspapers ! Visit records even have a copy of a newspaper www.familynotices .org It doesn't have to be obituary, which often gives remaining current. Details of 'Auntie Millie born in relatives and their place of residence. 1896' is just as relevant as a modern-day Source: Ancestors, November 2008, Tips wedding notice. --Submitted by Glenda and Tricks, Submitted by Shar Moore, Breslin Muskegon, MI PAID RESEARCHER COMES YORK COUNTY CEMETERY THROUGH WITH DATA UPDATE A friend of ours named Dot Gard told us that she had finally decided to bite the bullet Subject: Disk 4 Salem Lutheran (aka Salem and hire a genealogist for her German Union) Cemetery in Jacobus Indices are now research. We are happy to report her ONLINE. The indices for Salem Lutheran success: (aka Salem Union) Cemetery in Jacobus are now online. This adds indexing for about “ Just wanted to let you know that my 2400 headstones/names in the cemetery. German researcher, Uwe Porten, came Photos by Harry Senft of Dover, PA. These through this week with a tremendous report can be seen at: on my Nikol family from the Oberfranken region of Bavaria. He found info on my http://midatlantic.rootsweb.ancestry.com/fam grandmother and her siblings plus back 5 ilyhart/pictures/HarrySenft/index.html#4-2 generations from her. There is also info on 26 Don & Jeanine Hartman wordlist. I did it for a Russian word list, and FamilyHart they sent me some links to find them. http://familyhart.info twitter-@familyhart 1. www.lithuaniangenealogy.org/ Rootsweb List Admins for: Pennsylvania, PADutchGenONLY, Penna- Lithuanian Global Genealogy Society. Dutch, PAYork, PA-York-Gen, MD-Fred- Gen, MDWashin, Burket, Dierdorff, Gotshall, 2. www.mygenealogist.com/lithuania- Glattfelder, Hartman, Kohr, Kaufman, Shirk, genealogy.htm Sturm Genealogy Research in Lithuania and USGENWEB CCs for: Adams Co., PA; complementary consultations for beginning Franklin Co., PA: Lancaster Co., PA; York researchers with professional genealogists. Co., PA; Frederick Co., MD; Washington Co., MD 3. www.feefhs.org/
PILOT PROGRAM TO ORDER Officially known as the Federations of East FILMS ONLINE FOR AUSTRALIA European Family History AND NEW ZEALAND Societies. Conference being held in Salt Lake City on 29 - 31 July 2010 -- including a class on Baltic family history. The Church is experimenting with ordering microfilms online. At the present time it is 4. www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ltuwgw/ allowing individuals from Australia and New World GenWeb Project website for Lithuania. Zealand to order films at the URL below. If it is successful, this feature may be expanded to Larger cities in the United States had vibrant other localities. Lithuanian communities -- New York City and Chicago for instance. https://films.familysearch.org/ There is a museum on Lithuanian culture in Census Online Chicago. Here is the link to the Balzekas Links to Online Census Records for Canada, Museum of Lithuanian Culture in Chicago: England, Ireland, Scotland, US and Wales. http://www.census-online.com/links/ www.balzekasmuseum.org/ http://lib.byu.edu/mormonmigration/ LITHUANIAN FAMILY HISTORY There is a beautiful photograph of bright RESEARCH traditional Easter eggs from Lithuania on the homepage. Gorgeous. We try to give some hints on research in other countries, just in case we have readers The museum has a genealogy page under the interested in the country. departments’ link (along the top bar of the homepage). They use genealogical documents Here are some more helpful links for to share the culture and history of Lithuanians Lithuanian family history research. There are who came to the USA. numerous links included on these various websites which might be good for further The point to use www.wikipedia.org is an investigation. excellent one. I know it has many of the cities and places on Wikipedia. There are also You might want to write the Family History articles on famous Lithuanians and also the Library an email (www.familysearch.org and general history of the country. then the library link) requesting a Lithuanian 27 I am sure that learning about the history and ditions are in cities all over the country! culture of Lithuania would be very interesting for any researcher. http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/zoa/mwmap3.php? map=usa Mary Scott Northville Ward Westland Michigan Stake SWEEDISH RESEARCH
P.S. My son served his mission in the Baltic If you have Swedish ancestors, you may be Mission and absolutely loved Lithuania. It was interested in the following posting by the a wonderful place to serve. Swedish Council of America: http://tinyurl.com/swedishrecords The title of Also this site is great for the article is "Volunteers to Bring Historic translating : www.websters-online- Sweden Church Records Online," and it talks dictionary.org/translation/Lithuanian/ about a cooperative effort Sweden. http://genealogy.about.com/od/lithuani between FamilySearch and the National a/Lithuania_Family_History_Genealogy.h Archives of Sweden. Posted by Venita
Australian Family History Link THANKS FOR LETTER OF APPRECIATION Dear Sister Sonneborn, http://genealogy.about.com/od/australia/tp/top _databases.-9b1.htm?nl=1 I am sorry that I have not thanked you every month for your wonderful newsletter. It helps Newspapers: Death information can be found in many different sections of the me with my calling as a FHC director newspaper. Obituaries, death notices, immensely. Thank you, thank you, and thank funeral notices, legal notices, articles, etc. you again for all the wonderful newsletters Look for digitized newspaper through you have sent out to me. genealogy subscription sites like Ancestry, I just finished reading the last newsletter and WorldVitalRecords, GenealogyBank and all the wonderful quotes which are in it and others. Some states have digitized the Spirit testified again how wonderful and newspaper projects that also may be true this work is. helpful. Some examples include Utah, California and Colorado. Also check out Google News Archive. Family History Expos, Have a wonderful week, Inc. Weekly Tip Thanks, Nell Parker Sister ______ANCESTOR TRACKS WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? We also have written 8 volumes of the Early Landowners of Pennsylvania series which we Have you been watching the NBC series sell, but the vast majority of our website is “Who Do You Thing You Are?”? Have you devoted to providing free, downloadable 19th missed an episode or wished you could view century maps and atlases for the use of one again? Then go here on-line to view genealogists and historians. complete shows and view bonus material not You can access the FREE Ancestor Tracks shown on TV! web site at http://ancestortracks.com http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you- A MODERN WEATHER MAP OF USA are/video/? This is the coolest thing! Just move your sssdmh=dm13.242233&o_iid=43420&o_lid= cursor around the map, and see what the 43420 current temperatures and weather con-
28 I’ve missed all but the first episode (Fridays are a bad night to watch TV). So I plan to take my laptop to a Wi-Fi location and catch up. Wi-Fi you say, what’s that? Well if you have a newer laptop most likely you have the ability to access other networks wirelessly (you don’t need a phone line or a Ethernet generally used during Internet presentations). There are several around the area. I use the Giant Café in the Delco Plaza Giant supermarket. Panera Breads also has it. Staples has it. Yorktown hotel has it. Most hotels also have it but you may need a password to access it (and you really should be staying at the hotel to use it). The Martin Library has it.
If you’re lucky, you have high speed internet in your home – I only have V-E-R-Y S-L-O- W dial-up so I need to find Wi-Fi spots to do my Internet surfing.
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29 Brooke Shields just traced her family story back to the aristocrats of Italy and the kings of France. Where will your story take you?
Brooke Shields set out to discover more about both sides of her family in the latest episode of Who Do You Think You Are? Her journey began in New Jersey, where she gained new understanding of the hardships her maternal grandmother faced in early life. Then Brooke traveled to Europe to trace her father’s family tree, only to find an incredible tale of rags to riches and a connection to generations of royalty.
Brooke was amazed at the fascinating family story that unfolded for her on the show. Here’s how her discoveries can help you make some of your own.
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30 April 2010 INDEXING UPDATE
The effort to index the 1910 United States Census continues to move forward, with five states completed and three new states added this week. New projects are also now available for Canada, Germany, and France.
New Projects Canada, Ontario—Deaths, 1933–1937
Canada, Ontario—Marriages, 1869–1927 [Part A]
Deutschland, Baden, Achern—Kirchenbücher, 1810–1869 [Part C]
France, Paris—Registres Protestants, 1612–1906 [Part D]
U.S., North Carolina—1910 Federal Census
U.S., North Dakota—1910 Federal Census
U.S., Oklahoma—1910 Federal Census (See the chart below for a complete list and current status of all indexing projects.)
Recently Completed Projects
(Note: Recently completed projects have been removed from the available online indexing batches and will now go through a final completion check process. They will be published at pilot.familysearch.org in the near future.
Deutschland, Baden, Achern—Kirchenbücher, 1810–1869 [Part B]
France, Paris—Registres Protestants, 1612–1906 [Part C]
U.S., Indiana, Clay County—Marriages, 1811–1959
U.S., Mississippi—1910 Federal Census
U.S., Missouri—1910 Federal Census
U.S., Nevada—1910 Federal Census
U.S., New Hampshire—1910 Federal Census
U.S., New Jersey—1910 Federal Census
Current FamilySearch Indexing Projects, Record Language, and Percent Completion
Argentina, Balvanera—Registros Parroquiales, 1833–1934 [Parte B] Spanish 9% Argentina, Cordoba—Registros Parroquiales, 1722–1924 [Parte B] Spanish 8% Argentina, Santa Fe—Registros Parroquiales, 1634–1926 [Parte A] Spanish 19% Argentina, Santa Fe—Registros Parroquiales, 1634–1926 [Parte B] Spanish 15%
31 Belgium, Antwerp—Foreigners Index, 1840–1930 English 88% Brasil, Pernambuco, Recife—Registro Civil, 1900–1920 Portuguese 1% Brasil, Rio de Janeiro—Matrimonios, 1900–1910 [Piloto] Portuguese 29% Canada, New Brunswick—Births, 1810–1906 English 24% Canada, Ontario—Deaths, 1933–1937 English (New) Canada, Ontario—Marriages, 1869–1927 [Part A] English (New) Canada, Québec, Montreal—Régistres Paroissiaux, 1800–1900 French 18% Česká republika, Litoměřice—Matriky, 1552-1905 [část 1] German 23% (Tschechien, Litomerice—Kirchenbücher [Teil 1]) Chile, Concepción—Registros Civiles, 1885–1903 [Parte 2A] Spanish 27% Chile, Concepción—Registros Civiles, 1885–1903 [Parte 2B] Spanish 5% Colombia, Bucaramanga—Registros Parroquiales, 1649–1959 Spanish 2% Colombia, Marinilla—Registros Parroquiales, 1815–1959 Spanish 23% Deutschland, Baden, Achern—Kirchenbücher, 1810–1869 [Part C] German (New) Deutschland, Mecklenburg— Volkszählung, 1890 [Div 39–69] German 56% España, Avila, Navalmoral—Registros Parroquiales, 1530 – 1935 Spanish 79% España, Lugo—Registros Parroquiales, 1530–1930 [Parte 1] Spanish 36% España, Malaga—Registros Civiles, 1846–1870 Spanish 18% France, Cherbourg—Registres Paroissiaux, 1802–1907 French 12% France, Coutances—Registres Paroissiaux 1802–1907 French 7% France, Coutances, Paroisses de la Manche, 1792–1906 French 90% France, Paris—Registres Protestants, 1612–1906 [Partie D] French (New) France, Saint-Lo—Registres Paroissiaux, 1802–1907 French 54% Guatemala, Guatemala—Registros Civiles, 1877–1900 Spanish 1% Guatemala, Huehuetenango y San Marcos—Registros Civiles, 1877– Spanish 47% 1900 Italia, Napoli, Castellammare di Stabia—Atti di Morte, 1809–1936 Italian 17% [Parte B] Italy, Trento—Baptisms, 1784–1924 [Part 2A] Italian 4% Jamaica—Civil Births, 1900–1930 [Part A] English 15% Mexico, DF—Registros Parroquiales, 1855–1934 [Parte 4] Spanish 5% Mexico, Jalisco—1930 Federal Censo Spanish 78% Mexico, Michoacan—1930 Federal Censo Spanish 51% Mexico, Nuevo Leon—1930 Federal Censo Spanish 72% New Zealand—Passenger Lists, 1871–1915 English 89% Nicaragua, Managua—Registros Civiles, 1879–1984 [Parte 2A] Spanish 90% Nicaragua, Managua—Registros Civiles, 1879–1984 [Parte 3A] Spanish 7% Perú , Lima—Registros Civiles, 1887–1921 [Parte A] Spanish 9% Portugal, Setúbal—Registros da Igreja, 1581–1910 Portuguese 2% Russland, Sankt Petersburg—Kirchenbuchduplikat, 1833–1885 German 2% South Africa, Cape Province—Church Records, 1660–1970 Afrikaans, Dutch, 39% English Sverige, Södermanland—Kyrkoböcker, till 1860 [Del 1] Swedish 16% Sverige, Uppsala—Kyrkoböcker, till 1860 [Del 1] Swedish 40% Sverige, Örebro—Kyrkoböcker, till 1860 [Del 1] Swedish 9%
32 U.K., Bristol—Non-Conformist Registers, Pre-1900 [Part A] English 2% U.K., Bristol—Parish Registers, 1837–1900 [Part C] English 18% U.K., Cheshire—Parish Records, 1538–1850 [Part 2] English/ 92% Old English U.K., Essex—Parish Registers, 1538–1900 [Part 1] English 4% U.K., Isle of Man—Parish Registers, 1598–1850 English/ 4% Old English U.K., Isle of Man—Parish Registers, 1800–1950 English 19% U.K., Warwickshire—Parish Registers, 1754–1900 [Part 1C] English 28% U.K., Warwickshire—Parish Registers, 1538–1900 [Part 2 Adv] English/ 1% Old English U.S., California, San Francisco—Mortuary Records, 1850–1917 English 75% U.S., Hawaii—1920 Federal Census English 91% U.S., Indiana, Daviess County—Marriages, 1811–1959 English 48% U.S., Indiana, De Kalb County—Marriages, 1811–1959 English 6% U.S., Indiana, Delaware County—Marriages, 1811–1959 English 17% U.S., Military—1920 Federal Census English 93% U.S., New Mexico—1910 Federal Census English 95% U.S., North Carolina—1910 Federal Census English (New) U.S., North Dakota—1910 Federal Census English (New) U.S., Oklahoma—1910 Federal Census English (New) U.S., Puerto Rico—1920 Censo Federal Spanish 1% U.S., Puerto Rico—Nacimientos Civiles, 1836–1930 [Parte A] Spanish 16% U.S., Rhode Island—1935 State Census English 73% U.S., South Dakota—1945 State Census [Part B] English 15% Venezuela, Mérida—Registros Parroquiales, 1654–1992 [Parte 2] Spanish 6% Österreich, Wiener Meldezettel, 1890–1925 German 9% Украина, Киев—Метрические Книги, 1840–1842 Russian 87% (*Percentage refers to a specific portion of a larger project.)
Current FamilySearch Partner Projects, Record Language, and Percent Completion
Australia, Victoria—Probate Records, 1853–1989 English 85% België—Burgerlijke Stand, 1851-1900 [Deel B] Dutch 63% Belgique—Registres Civile, 1851–1900 [Partie A] French 16% Canada, Ontario, Toronto—Trust Cemeteries, 1826–1935 English 8% Deutschland, Westfalen, Minden—Volkszählung, 1880–1900 German 1% España, Avila, Madrigal y Garganta—Registros Parroquiales, 1530–1935 Spanish 43% France, Quimper et Leon, St. Louis—Registres Paroissiaux, 1722–1909 French 11% Norway—1875 Census [Part B] Norwegian 7% Philippines, Lingayen, Dagupan—Registros Parroquiales, 1615–1982 Spanish 11% U.K., Norfolk—Parish Registers, 1538–1900 English 1% U.S., Ohio—Tax Records, Post 1825 [Part 3] English 7% U.S., Utah, Salt Lake County—Birth Registers, 1890–1908 English 45% U.S., Utah, Salt Lake County—Death Registers, 1848–1940 English 32%
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