NAUVOO UNIVERSITY FAMILY HISTORY CLASS
Class 05-- COMPILED SOURCES (Cont.) AND CENSUSES
©2010 by Donald R. Snow
This page last updated 2010-02-09.
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R EVIEW AND INTRODUCTION
- Welcome
- Instructors are Donald R. and Diane M. Snow ( snowd@math.byu.edu and dms34@juno.com ) of Provo, Utah; St. George, Utah; and Nauvoo, Illinois.
- This page with active Internet links is posted on the Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group website http://uvtagg.org under Class Outlines , Don's Listings , Nauvoo University.
- Bring your LDS Individual Ordinance Summaries? Will scan them for you
- This class will continue the discussion of compiled sources and then talk about using censuses.
- Spiritual thought
SOME COMPILED SOURCES
- http://www.familysearch.org -- many good compiled sources
- Internet IGI (International Genealogical Index)
- Ancestral File -- data sent in to FamilySearch and merged into a 35-million-name database -- parts of it are online, entire database is available in FHC's
- Pedigree Resource File -- 100-million-name file of data sent to FamilySearch by LDS and non-LDS; index is available on FamilySearch; entire file is available at many FHC's
- Many primary and secondary indexed databases from FamilySearch Indexing project -- go to Search Records > Record Search Pilot
- http://www.rootsweb.org -- free website with lots of data and family trees
- http://www.ancestry.com -- commercial website with much FH data; a few parts are free for everyone
- http://www.worldvitalrecords.com -- commercial website with lots of FH data; parts are free for everyone; completely available for free at FHC's
- Nauvoo Databank -- large database of info about early LDS Church members; available on one computer in NU Classroom and in Nauvoo FHC
- LDS Family History Centers have many secondary sources -- Hours at Nauvoo FHC (217-453-6347) in the LDS Chapel are M 9-11:30 am, T 9-noon & 3-6 PM, W 9-noon & 3-8 PM, Th 9-noon & 3-8 PM, F 9-noon, S 9-11:30 am
CENSUSES
- Censuses are important since they show the entire family and relationships
- All censuses are on http://www.ancestry.com , but it's a commercial website and costs money to see the data
- Many censuses are on http://www.familysearch.org
- On Search Records > Advanced Search: are the 1880 US, 1881 Canadian, and 1881 UK censuses
- On Search Records > Record Search Pilot: are 1850, 1860, 1870, 1900, 1920 US censuses; 1841, 1861, UK and Wales; plus many state censuses
- All US Census images and many indices are on HeritageQuest Online - accessible from home with a local public library card, e.g. a Nauvoo Public Library card validated at the Quincy Public Library
HANDS-ON EXERCISES
- Find something in a compiled database on http://www.familysearch.org about one of your ancestors.
- Search in FamilySearch > Search Records > Record Search Pilot for some of your ancestors to see if you can find something indexed about them
- Look in US Censuses on FamilySearch and find a census image containing one of your ancestors and do a Prnt Screen and paste into a WordPad document to save it -- can later link it into your PAF database
ASSIGNMENT
- Find a GEDCOM from the Internet or FHC or elsewhere with some of your ancestors. Import it into a new database (not your master database) and examine it and clean it up before you import the parts you want into your master database.
- Pick an ancestor and "run" him or her through each of the US Censuses -- means finding their family in each census to see where they lived, ages of children, occupation, etc. -- Note: the ages indicated in the censuses won't be consistent since they were frequently just estimated by someone in the household.
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