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Archive for February, 2008
The LDS Library, A Great Place To Research Your Family History
Friday, February 15th, 2008The LDS Library in Utah is filled with every piece of genealogy information the Latter Day Saints can find and they allow anyone to use it. If you can’t go to Salt Lake City, Utah to get up close and personal with their library, you can order copies of all the records they’ve copied onto microfilm or fiche and use them in the LDS Family History Centers located in their churches all across America.
Genealogy.com . . . Another Place to Research Your Family History
Friday, February 8th, 2008Genealogy.com is another popular subscription database, which I’ve also used. There are reasons I recommend it and reasons I’m no longer a member. It was the first database I subscribed to and my favorite thing about it was the history books they had online, which Ancestry didn’t have at the time. They also have a nice variety of subscription offerings that gave me access to the historical information I wanted without having to pay for sections I didn’t need.
Ancestry.com . . . An Online Subscription Library for Genealogy
Monday, February 4th, 2008I discovered many of my family history facts on Ancestry.com. That’s right. I pay for genealogy information. It’s not a crime, as a lot of people believe. Genealogists rent microfilm from the LDS library, local or state libraries. Some people buy compact discs to find their genealogy information. All this costs money. What’s wrong with paying for the ability to access a genealogy database—which is really an online library—that delivers first-rate genealogical information directly to my home computer? Ancestry.com saves me time, gives me great facts from verifiable sources, and I love sitting at home doing research anytime I want.
County Courthouse Records . . . A Vital Step In Researching Your Family History
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008In my post on Jan. 26th, I said that vital statistics such as birth, death and marriage records were only required to be reported beginning in the early 1900’s in most states. Prior to that time, there were counties that collected this information about their citizens. I love those folks! Unfortunately, during the Revolutionary and Civil War some Courthouse records were destroyed. This makes genealogists’ work harder, but not impossible. We can reconstruct the information we need from census records, wills, tax lists, deeds, church records and estate sales—see my post about Estate Sales on Jan 21. I’ll be discussing the other methods in future posts. Now we’ll talk about County Records.