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This class is designed to help you discover the many ways that newspapers can aid in your research. Newspapers can provide clues and information that cannot be found anywhere else! Newspapers contain birth, marriage, death notices, obituaries, photographs, passenger lists, military news, biographical sketches, citizenship notices, land transactions, and a host of other information. Access to historical newspapers has never been better. Come and see what you have been missing! | This class is designed to help you discover the many ways that newspapers can aid in your research. Newspapers can provide clues and information that cannot be found anywhere else! Newspapers contain birth, marriage, death notices, obituaries, photographs, passenger lists, military news, biographical sketches, citizenship notices, land transactions, and a host of other information. Access to historical newspapers has never been better. Come and see what you have been missing! | ||
<u>Ancestry.com</u> | |||
Getting Started with Ancestry.com | |||
1. How to get a free Ancestry.com account | |||
Sign up for a free Ancestry account if you haven’t done so, through FamilySearch | |||
2. Tree Settings | |||
Privacy Settings | |||
3. Getting Started in Ancestry.com | |||
Learn how to navigate the Ancestry website | |||
4. How to import four generations from FamilySearch to Ancestry | |||
Don’t type your information, unless you have to. | |||
5. Ancestry will import an additional four generations for | |||
End-of-Line Only | |||
6. Record Hints | |||
Documenting you avoid revisiting the same materials again and again, and it helps you understand important qualities of materials you use. Most important, documentation is essential for a family history to help others. | |||
7. How to Transfer data from Ancestry to FamilySearch | |||
With a click or two, you can transfer information from Ancestry to FamilySearch, and from FamilySearch to Ancestry. | |||
You must have a personal tree in both Ancestry and FamilySearch to allow for the exchange of data, sources and media between these two websites. | |||
Additional Tips for Ancestry | |||
Using the Home Page in Ancestry to find photos, hints and more | |||
Standardization in Ancestry vs FamilySearch | |||
How to avoid duplicates in Ancestry | |||
How to merge duplicates in Ancestry | |||
How to access other member public trees and/or attach data | |||
Search strategies | |||
Use Common Sense | |||
And MORE | |||
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