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Why Oral Histories Are So Crucial to Good Genealogy, Part 1 |
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Oral histories are a crucial part of your genealogy research. Whether you are conducting them or reading them, you will get invaluable information from them that you almost certainly won’t find anywhere else. The details from oral histories can help guide you to new avenues of research, fill in personal details and
information gaps in your family tree, and bring long forgotten events and people back to virtual life again (and preserve them for future generations)... Read More
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This Week’s Free Genealogy Lookups |
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• British and American Coats of Arms
Here you'll find crests, coats of arms, mottoes, and lineages referencing approximately
137,000 individuals. These books collected here ranges from illustrated compilations of coats of arms to definitions of terms used in heraldic research.
Approximately 134,000 individuals who were married between 1635 and 1860 in select Connecticut towns.
This data collection contains information on approximately 272,000 individuals who were married between 1851 and 1900 in select Texas counties.
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Why Oral Histories Are So Crucial to Good Genealogy, Part 2 |
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Even the federal government recognized the importance of oral histories long ago. Back in the 1930’s, when the Civilian Conservation Corps was established to create jobs during the Great Depression and shore up the nation’s infrastructure at the same time, taking oral histories was one of the many jobs performed by
people in the Corps.
There were still people alive in the United States then who had personally fought in or lived through the Civil War, and also people who had been born as slaves and spent the early parts of their lives being owned by other people. The U.S. government recognized the importance of getting the stories of
these people recorded while they were still here to tell about those long ago times. They were, after all, an important part of American history. Getting the personal perspective on those times was as important as knowing the book facts about them... Read More
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Latest Ancestral Findings Podcast
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AF-014: Genealogy Basics: Jewish Research Advice for Beginners
Jewish genealogical research has become more popular in recent years than it was in the past. Historically, genealogy has been primarily a gentile pursuit (except in Biblical times, when knowing your Jewish tribe and ancestry was important). With the re-establishment of Israel,
however, there has been a renewed interest in Jewish genealogy, as the rabbinate in Israel requires a strong level of proof of Jewish ancestry to determine a person’s status as legally Jewish.
If you are just getting started in researching your genealogy, whether for citizenship purposes in Israel or just out of curiosity as to your family history, here’s how to get off to a strong start with your
research.
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Free Genealogical Lookups |
Here are some sources you should be using in your genealogical research. Some are free and some are fee-based. I’ll continue to make updates to this page so you may want to bookmark for future reference and convenience. |
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