How To Trace Your Family Tree
Wondering how to trace your family tree? Find genealogy how-to articles to successfully find your ancestors and build your family tree. Finding your ancestors does not have to overwhelming, but it does take time. Learning step by step is the key to successful genealogy research. Here at Are You My Cousin? you will learn:
- How to start your research the right way (Hint: It's with a plan!)
- How to progress your research forward
- How to find and use both common and uncommon genealogy records.
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31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips – Private Collections
July is completely focused on providing you with genealogy tips that are …..well,….”out of the box”. Welcome to DAY 21 of the 31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips series! Need to start at the beginning of the series or catch up? Start here. DAY 21 – Private Collections Private collections can contain a wealth of genealogical information. These may include family letters and papers as well as a church or organization’s papers. Contained in family letters are often references to other family members including family that had migrated some distance away. References to travel, impacts of a war and political thoughts and activities may be recorded. In…
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31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips – Tax Records
Join me as we talk tax records! July is completely focused on providing you with genealogy tips that are …..well,….”out of the box”. Welcome to DAY 20 of the 31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips series! Need to start at the beginning of the series or catch up? Start here. DAY 20 – Tax Records Tax records are some of my favorite genealogy resources! Why? [So glad you asked!] With tax records, the genealogy researcher can track an ancestor year by year as opposed to decade by decade with the census records. These records also provide clues to an ancestor’s life including: Age Wealth Who lived in…
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31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips – The 1890 Census Fragments
July is completely focused on providing you with genealogy tips that are …..well,….”out of the box”. Welcome to DAY 19 of the 31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips series! Need to start at the beginning of the series or catch up? Start here. DAY 19 – The 1890 Census Fragments The loss of the 1890 census record stalls many genealogists in their research. But, it does not have to! Did you know some 1890 fragments of the census DID survive?! According the the National Archives (NARA), fragments of the 6 parts of the census surviving include Parts of the population schedule – Over 6100 individuals in 10…
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31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips – Non-Population Schedules
What are those U.S. Census Non-Population Schedules? July is completely focused on providing you with genealogy tips that are …..well,….”out of the box”. Welcome to DAY 18 of the 31 Days of “Out of the Box” Genealogy Tips series! Need to start at the beginning of the series or catch up? Start here. DAY 18 – Explore U.S. Census Non-Population Schedules Non-population schedules of the U.S. census were created along with the 1850-1880 census and used to gather data on unique segments of the population. The purpose of the special schedules was to determine the types of resources the government needed, how to allocate them, as well as looking at…