Newspapers This database is a collection of birth, marriage, and death announcements from several major U.S. newspapers for a variety of years. Images of the original newspapers are included. Source Information Ancestry.com. Historical Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, & Death Announcements, 1851-2003 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: The New York Times. New York, […]

Topics Covered in this Class: Immigration and Emigration Records Passenger Lists Crew Lists Border Crossings    Naturalization Records             Passports Ships, Pictures and Descriptions   Immigration, Passenger Lists and Emigration Books Immigration records can fill in crucial details of your history. Start with passenger records to understand your ancestors’ trip to America, then search for passports […]

    Name of War Dates Birth Years Revolutionary War 1775-1783 1720-1765 War of 1812 1812-1815 1757-1798 Mexican-American War 1846-1848 1791-1831 Civil War 1861-1865 1806-1848 Spanish American War 1898 1843-1881 World War I 1917-1918 1862-1901 World War II 1941-1945 1886-1928 Korean War 1950-1953 1895-1936 Viet Nam 1965-1973 1904-1958   Types of Records in Ancestry.Com Databases […]

Vital Records Birth, Marriage and Death Hatch, Match and Dispatch   Review Syllabii for previous Brookhaven classes: Tracing Your Family Tree I- Week 4 Vital Records Adventures in Genealogy Week VI- Probate Records Adventures in Genealogy Week VI-Court Records Adventures in Genealogy-Week X – Funeral Homes and Cemeteries NOW……Lets See What Records ARE ON Ancestry  […]

Census and Voters Lists The entry about Wild Cards was in last weeks lesson but we failed to mention it. So, here it is: WILDCARDS Wild cards are special characters one can use in search fields such as name and location to enhance a search. Can use an asterisk (*)  or a question mark (?) […]

Adventures on Genealogy Using Ancestry.com  Week 2   Searching Keep research notes on what you search for and your success Search Form             Enter as much information as you know             First and Middle Name, Last Name             Name a place your ancestor may have lived             Birth Place             Birth Year- Use the calculate […]

About This Class Name of Instructor: Mic Barnette Place: Building  M 124 Time: 1:30 pm to 4:50 pm Adventures in Genealogy With Ancestry.com I Wednesdays for 4 weeks commencing Oct 2, 2019 Class Dates : Oct 2  (2) Oct 9  (3) Oct 16  (4) Oct 23 Adventures in Genealogy With Ancestry.com II Wednesdays for 4 […]

ALBION’S SEED By David Hackett Fischer Oxford University Press, New York and London Copyright 1989   CONTENTS: PREFACE An Idea of Cultural History, vii ILLUSTRATIONS Drawings, Maps and Tables, xv INTRODUCTION The Determinants of a Voluntary Society, 3 EAST ANGLIA TO MASSACHUSETTS: The Exodus of the English Puritans, 1629—41, 13 THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND TO […]

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  Family Search (LDS) Website  http://familysearch.org Home Getting Started Forms Maps Guides Share Collaboration Library Family History Library Family History Centers Family History Catalogue Search Social Security Death Indes Census- US, Canada, British Isles (England Wales) Ancestor Search Books  Ancestry. Com   http://ancestry.com Heritage Quest   http://Dallaslibrary.org US Census 1790-1940 Freedman’s Bank Books Online   Persi http://www.findmypast.com/content/persi_finds_new_home_at_findmypast […]