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Compiled Sources & Where to Find Them (view source)
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=== Introduction === | === Introduction === | ||
No matter what family history research experience you have in using primary and original records, and regardless of how many years you've been researching your family tree, this important checklist of Compiled Sources will help you conduct more thorough and comprehensive searches for finding compiled, and/or secondary sources on family lines. In most cases, family history seekers are guaranteed a pleasant surprise and will strike ‘gold’ by occasionally discovering already completed research on in-common ancestral family lineages. And because so many of the 'repositories' to such holdings are dynamic in that they are continually adding to their collections, it worthy of our time to return regularly to learn what new additions might turn to 'gold'. | |||
In today’s world, orderly approaches to tracking and searching in all available compiled source databases has become a complex and unwieldy task! After a thorough scouring of home sources, in closets and attics—for family history papers, copies of records, pictures and memorabilia, you are now ready to embark in earnest the next phase of your preliminary searches—for compiled sources, such as published or deposited manuscript sources on families, pedigrees, biographies and autobiographies. If you’ve just barely begun your quest to trace your family tree, first look in attic, basement, and closet shelves and boxes for family home sources that may include—family Bibles, pictures, diaries, journals, copies of vital records and certificates and records, interviews with extended family and close relatives’, searching their home records as well (even old neighbors--if living--can prove very helpful!). | In today’s world, orderly approaches to tracking and searching in all available compiled source databases has become a complex and unwieldy task! After a thorough scouring of home sources, in closets and attics—for family history papers, copies of records, pictures and memorabilia, you are now ready to embark in earnest the next phase of your preliminary searches—for compiled sources, such as published or deposited manuscript sources on families, pedigrees, biographies and autobiographies. If you’ve just barely begun your quest to trace your family tree, first look in attic, basement, and closet shelves and boxes for family home sources that may include—family Bibles, pictures, diaries, journals, copies of vital records and certificates and records, interviews with extended family and close relatives’, searching their home records as well (even old neighbors--if living--can prove very helpful!). | ||