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The table below can help you decide which records to search.In column 1 find the goal you selected.In column 2 find the types of records that are most likely to have the information you need. Then turn to that section of this outline. (The terms used in columns 2 and 3 are the same as the topic headings used in this outline and in the “Locality Search” section of the Family History Library Catalog.)Column 3 contains additional records that may also be useful.Records containing previous research (genealogies [including family histories], biographies, histories, periodicals, and societies) could provide information for nearly all of the goals. These have been repeatedly listed if they are especially helpful for the goal. | The table below can help you decide which records to search.In column 1 find the goal you selected.In column 2 find the types of records that are most likely to have the information you need. Then turn to that section of this outline. (The terms used in columns 2 and 3 are the same as the topic headings used in this outline and in the “Locality Search” section of the Family History Library Catalog.)Column 3 contains additional records that may also be useful.Records containing previous research (genealogies [including family histories], biographies, histories, periodicals, and societies) could provide information for nearly all of the goals. These have been repeatedly listed if they are especially helpful for the goal. | ||
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Revision as of 16:37, 16 January 2008
The table below can help you decide which records to search.In column 1 find the goal you selected.In column 2 find the types of records that are most likely to have the information you need. Then turn to that section of this outline. (The terms used in columns 2 and 3 are the same as the topic headings used in this outline and in the “Locality Search” section of the Family History Library Catalog.)Column 3 contains additional records that may also be useful.Records containing previous research (genealogies [including family histories], biographies, histories, periodicals, and societies) could provide information for nearly all of the goals. These have been repeatedly listed if they are especially helpful for the goal.
| 1. If You Need | 2. Look First In | 3. Then Search |
| Ages | Civil Registration, Church Records | Census, Emigration and Immigration |
| Birth dates | Civil Registration, Church Records | Emigration and Immigration |
| Cities or parishes of foreign birth | Civil Registration, Church Records | Emigration and Immigration, Schools, Military Records |
| Customs | Social Life and Customs | History, Minorities |
| Deaths | Civil Registration, Church Records | Cemeteries, Newspapers |
| Ethnicity | Civil Registration, Church Records | Emigration and Immigration, Societies |
| Historical backgrounds | History | Gazetteers, Periodicals |
| Immigration dates | Emigration and Immigration | Census, Biography, Naturalization and Citizenship |
| Living relatives | Directories | Newspapers, Biography, Court Records |
| Maiden names | Civil Registration, Church Records | Cemeteries, Military Records |
| Marriages | Civil Registration, Church Records | Census |
| Municipal origins and boundaries | Gazetteer, Maps | History |
| Occupations | Civil Registration, Church Records | Census, Directories |
| Parents, children, and other family members | Civil Registration, Church Records | Emigration and Immigration, Census, Probate, Genealogy |
| Physical descriptions | Emigration and Immigration | Military Records |
| Place-finding aids | Gazetteers | Maps, History |
| Places of residence | Civil Registration, Church Records | Census, Biography |
| Previous research | Genealogy | Periodicals, Biography, Societies, Nobility |
| Religions | Church Records | History |
| Social activities | Social Life and Customs | Biography, History, Genealogy |