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Revision as of 13:49, 15 July 2025
Instructions on How to Do Genealogical Research[edit | edit source]
Below are articles that discuss the genealogical research process. Many of the pages overlap in scope.
- A Guide to Research
- Abbreviations Lists for Personal Names (English)
- Begin a search for confederate records
- Begin a search for Union records
- Begin Your Genealogy Quest
- Beginning African American Research
- Beginning Research of United States Indigenous Peoples
- Choose a Record Type
- Cite Your Sources (Source Footnotes)
- Collecting Previous Research by Others Part One: Home and Relative Sources
- Collecting Previous Research by Others Part Two: Online Family Tree Collections
- Collecting Previous Research by Others Part Three: Digitized Books
- Collecting Previous Research by Others Part Four: FamilySearch Wiki Tools
- Creation of Records
- Decide What You Want to Learn
- Describe the Records on a Research Log
- Determining If a Source is Relevant
- Document AS YOU GO
- England Getting Started
- Entering Unknown or Incomplete Names in Genealogy
- Evaluate and Use the Information
- Evaluate the Evidence
- Family History for Beginners
- Family History for the Flummoxed
- Flummoxed - Curiosity
- Flummoxed - Extending Family Lines
- Flummoxed - Leaving a Legacy
- Gather Family Information
- Gather Low-Hanging-Fruit Sources
- Genealogy
- How to Find Descendants in the United States
- Identify Candidate Families for Further Research
- Identify a Category of Sources
- Inferential Genealogy
- Locating Online Databases Part One: FamilySearch Wiki Sources
- Locating Online Databases Part Two: FamilySearch Historical and Library Records
- Locating Online Databases Part Three: Digitized Books
- Locating Online Databases Part Four: Internet Sources
- Major Databases for Beginning United States Research
- New to Genealogy - Beginners First Step
- Obtain and Search the Records
- Obtain the Records
- One Family at a Time
- One Research Objective at a Time
- Organize the New Records
- Organize your genealogy
- Organize Your Records
- Organizing Your Files
- Prepare a Research Log
- Principles of Family History Research
- Principles of Family History Research For Further Reading
- Recall Information
- Record the Results
- Record_Useful_Information
- Research a Family in Community Context
- Research Process
- Restart the Research Cycle
- Rookie Mistakes
- Search the Records
- Select Records to Search
- Select Specific Records
- Select the Easiest Research Objective
- Share the Information
- Solving Tough Research Problems—Overcoming Brick Walls
- Spelling Substitution Tables for the United States and Canada
- Surname Research
- Transfer the Information
- United States Basic Search Strategies
- United States Census Analyzing Census Data
- Use Appropriate Forms
- Use the Information
- View the Records
- Websites for Family History Beginners
- What to do with the genealogy and family history I collected