NAUVOO UNIVERSITY FAMILY HISTORY CLASS
Class 04-- COMPILED SOURCES
©2010 by Donald R. Snow
This page last updated 2010-02-02.
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REVIEW 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.
- Questions about notes and sources?
- Scanning your LDS Individual Ordinance Summaries for those who have them
now.
- This class will discuss cleaning up your place entries and finding
compiled sources, so you can begin verifying your data. More details are in
Don's online Class Outlines linked above.
- Spiritual thought
CLEANING UP THE PLACES IN YOUR DATABASE
- Databases need to be checked regularly to get the places complete,
correct, and uniform.
- Ways to find the counties the cities are in -- places should be
entered as [city, county, state, country] for completeness
- PAF's Alphabetical Place List -- shows an alphabetical list of every
location in your database with a list of the events that occured there -- demo
of how to do this
- Other auxiliary programs (PAF Pal, Family Insight, etc.) help with
cleaning up your places in a PAF database -- PAF Pal is free to everyone from
http://www.ohanasoftware.com --
other helpful programs are available free to use in FHC's
FINDING COMPILED SOURCES
- Sources
- Long-term goal is to have sources for every piece of data in your PAF
database
- Definitions
- Primary sources - recorded at or near the time of the event by someone
who was there
- Secondary sources - recorded later and are not usually as accurate as
primary sources
- Most compiled records are secondary sources, but are usually very
helpful to find documentation of primary sources
- Examples of secondary sources are most books, Ancestral File, Pedigree
Resource File, Nauvoo Databank, and family trees online
- 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
- Some compiled sources and examples of results for class members' ancestors
- http://www.familysearch.org
- Some US, Canadian, and British Censuses
- Internet IGI (International Genealogical Index)
- 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
- Will discuss in another class how to save images of anything on your
computer screen
HANDS-ON EXERCISES
- Use data from your LDS Individual Ordinance Summary to register for New
FamilySearch on https://new.familysearch.org/en/action/unsec/welcome .
- Go to the Print Menu on PAF and do a preview of the alphabetical list of
all the places in your PAF database so you can see which places need
correcting.
- Go to http://www.familysearch.org > Search
Records > Record Search Pilot and find and save a record that has some
information about one or more of your ancestors.
ASSIGNMENT
- Do a preview of the alphabetical list of all the places in your PAF
database and begin cleaning them up.
- 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 so you can clean it up before you import the parts you
want into your master database.
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