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Day 1 |
| Introduction to Genealogy
and Local History |
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Getting started |
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Review of terminology |
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Discuss family trees and
ancestor
charts |
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Family group sheets and other data |
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Here's a link for downloadable forms (Ancestor
Chart) and (Family
Group Sheet) |
| Census Indexes |
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Print Indexes |
| Soundex & Miracode |
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Coding - the
rules and
how they work |
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arrangement and
alphabetization |
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Sample Soundex
cards for 1880, 1900 and Miracode for 1910 are here. (Requires
Adobe Acrobat Reader) |
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Reading the Soundex records |
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Exercise # 1 |
| Census Records |
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History of the
Census |
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Finding the census record
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Interpreting the data |
| 1930 Census - as of
April 1, 2002 - NARA description and searching techniques |
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Instructions for searching the 1930
census without an index or Soundex |
| Here are downloadable
forms for
each census (1790-1930) |
| The National Archives
publication "Prologue" has a good article on how the Enumeration Districts
for the 1930 census were drawn
http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2003/fall/1930-eds.html |
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case study #1 |
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| IGI / International
Genealogy Index (now online at
www.familysearch.org) |
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how to read it, what does
it tell the researcher |
| Vital Records -
Birth,
Death,
Marriage and Divorce |
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What do they tell us,
where do we find them |
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Exercise # 2 |
| Obituaries, Newspapers,
Journals |
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What types of information
is located within these secondary sources, how to locate and access the
information |
| Cemetery Records |
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where to look for them and
what do they tell the researcher |
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Field Trip to State Library of Ohio - when held in
Columbus
overview of their collections, 1920 / 1930 census for OSU location only |
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Field Trip to KSU Archives or Map Library - when
held in Kent |
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Day 2 |
| Web based instruction
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Local historical and
genealogical societies |
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non-print resources |
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| Local History: Primary and
Secondary sources |
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city directories |
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county histories |
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maps & gazetteers, |
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newspapers |
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case study #2 |
| Land Records and Land
grants |
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where to locate
information, how to interpret it |
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Deeds and Tax Maps |
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case study #3 |
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Official
records of the Union and Confederate armies (letters and
military correspondence of the War of the Rebellion)
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/browse.monographs/waro.html |
| Military Records from the
National Archives: What
records contain |
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Pre-1900: Where to find
information, how to write to NARA, what the records tell the Researcher. |
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Post 1900: Where to write
for information about WWII, Korean and Vietnam Vets. |
| Passenger Lists - using
indices and printed sources. (time permitting) |
| Question period, review of
Post Class assignment |
| Evaluation |
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