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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'. | 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 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, basements and attics—for family history memorabilia, copies of records, pictures, etc., you are now ready to embark in the next phase of your preliminary searches—for compiled sources. Compiled sources include published or deposited manuscript sources on families, pedigrees, biographies/autobiographies and local histories. | ||
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==== Home Sources ==== | ==== Home Sources ==== | ||
If you’ve just barely begun your quest to trace your family tree, the first step is to 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 ( | If you’ve just barely begun your quest to trace your family tree, the first step is to 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, old letters, even interviews with extended family and close relatives’, searching their home records as well (old neighbors--if living--as well may prove very helpful!). | ||
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The second group of compiled sources is also your second step for searching preliminary sources. Always seek to search those places, websites, repositories, libraries and societies holding published and/or manuscript copies of family information. Such compilations can and often do exist. The quality and/or professionalism in the already concluded research may vary from a scant skeletal view riddled with mistakes to a poorly researched and supposed historical treatise with enormous errors, false or incorrectly drawn research conclusions, to the opposite end of the spectrum--a comprehensive genealogical and historical view of a family surname--all immaculately completed, very thoroughly and scientifically | The second group of compiled sources is also your second step for searching preliminary sources. Always seek to search those places, websites, repositories, libraries and societies holding published and/or manuscript copies of family information. Such compilations can and often do exist. The quality and/or professionalism in the already concluded research may vary from a scant skeletal view riddled with mistakes to a poorly researched and supposed historical treatise with enormous errors, false or incorrectly drawn research conclusions, to the opposite end of the spectrum--a comprehensive genealogical and historical view of a family surname--all immaculately completed, very thoroughly and scientifically (professionally) researched, with a well written, and polished publication to show for it. Such compiled sources may be as complete as it possibly could be, as if you had researched and produced it yourself! These compiled sources can provide family genealogies, pedigrees, individuals' biographies or autobiographies, or local and community histories. | ||
Here’s a list of resources for where to find published and manuscript (compiled) sources on family surnames and lineages: | Here’s a list of resources for where to find published and manuscript (compiled) sources on family surnames and lineages: | ||
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===== 3. Types of Institutions That Generally Provide "Compiled Sources" Worldwide: ===== | ===== 3. Types of Institutions That Generally Provide "Compiled Sources" Worldwide: ===== | ||
Compiled manuscripts or typescripts, on family histories, genealogies, biographies, and pedigrees in any country around the world, generally have been deposited or may be located at: | Compiled manuscripts or typescripts, on family histories, genealogies, biographies, and pedigrees in any country around the world, generally have been deposited or may be located at: | ||