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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:. Ecclesiastes 3:1. This is the Season. For Family History. An Overview. Presented by:. DeAnne Shelley. Lesson 1:. How to Accomplish Your Original Research. Lesson 2:. Organization of Your Research Notebook.

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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

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  1. To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: Ecclesiastes 3:1

  2. This is the Season For Family History

  3. An Overview Presented by: DeAnne Shelley

  4. Lesson 1: How to Accomplish Your Original Research

  5. Lesson 2: Organization of Your Research Notebook

  6. There are two types of records: • Previous Research Family history already compiled by others • New Research Family history done by you in original records

  7. Strengths of Previous Research • Information has already been gathered for you. • These sources give you clues about where to search. • They may have stories, and details about your family.

  8. Weaknesses of Previous Research • May be inaccurate • May not be well documented • May mislead you if you are not very careful

  9. Original Records - Plowing new ground. There are many kinds of original records.

  10. Lesson 2: Checking What Has Already Been Completed

  11. Lesson 4: How to do Family History on the Internet

  12. Lesson 5: Locating My Family using Census Records

  13. Census Records • Places people in a time and place • Gives name and birth year in later censuses • Gives other details, including parents, immigration, and naturalization

  14. Lesson 6: Using the Handybook and FHLC

  15. Lesson 7: Vital Records

  16. Vital or Civil Records • Birth, marriage and death records • Gives dates, places and relationships • Families can be built from this information

  17. Lesson 8: Church Records

  18. Church Records • Gives birth, marriage and burial • information • Very useful in European and South American countries • Often go back to the early 1500s

  19. Lesson 9: Land and Tax Records

  20. Land Records • Where a family lived – state, county, township • Time period they were there • Names of husband and wife selling land • Name of the buyer

  21. Who owned the land previously • Neighbors • Children involved in an estate settlement • Economic condition of the family

  22. Lesson 10: Probate and Court Records

  23. Probate Records • Wills • Estate inventories • Cemetery records • Funeral home records • Obituaries

  24. Lesson 11: Military Records

  25. Lesson 12: Emigration, Immigration and Naturalization Records

  26. Records need to be analyzed to be really understood • How close to the event was it written? • Who wrote it? Be careful about conclusions!!

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