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#Search in indexes (and in the original record) sources in the country of origin (works as a first-step IF surname is not too common) | #Search in indexes (and in the original record) sources in the country of origin (works as a first-step IF surname is not too common) | ||
=== Step 1. Preliminary search in home sources<br> === | === Step 1. Preliminary search in home sources<br> === | ||
Thoroughly scour all home sources (including family history papers, copies of records, pictures, old letters (i.e. with an old address), family Bibles, journals/dairies, copies of vital record certificates and church records, memorabilia , interviews with extended family and close relatives’, even searching their home records, as well as interviewing old neighbors may prove very helpful! If we do not seek these and scan all to ascertain important details about our immigrant ancestors, we cannot honestly say that our (preliminary) search is completed. | Thoroughly scour all home sources (including family history papers, copies of records, pictures, old letters (i.e. with an old address), family Bibles, journals/dairies, copies of vital record certificates and church records, memorabilia , interviews with extended family and close relatives’, even searching their home records, as well as interviewing old neighbors may prove very helpful! If we do not seek these and scan all to ascertain important details about our immigrant ancestors, we cannot honestly say that our (preliminary) search is completed. | ||
=== Step 2. Preliminary search for compiled genealogies, biography, local history <br> === | === Step 2. Preliminary search for compiled genealogies, biography, local history <br> === | ||
The preliminary search continues by requiring you to initiate the next vital step—the standard procedure—of seeking for and searching compiled sources. Such compiled sources to search for includes published or manuscript sources on families found in libraries and archives; pedigrees, biographies, autobiographies, town and local histories, and online family genealogies. To some, this is the ‘ugly duckling’ aspect of the research process but nevertheless, a vital phase of doing standard (proper) due diligence. | The preliminary search continues by requiring you to initiate the next vital step—the standard procedure—of seeking for and searching compiled sources. Such compiled sources to search for includes published or manuscript sources on families found in libraries and archives; pedigrees, biographies, autobiographies, town and local histories, and online family genealogies. To some, this is the ‘ugly duckling’ aspect of the research process but nevertheless, a vital phase of doing standard (proper) due diligence. | ||
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Here’s a good a list of places for where to find online, published and manuscript (compiled) sources on family surnames and lineages: | Here’s a good a list of places for where to find online, published and manuscript (compiled) sources on family surnames and lineages: | ||
=== O'''nline family genealogy sites, pedigrees, family history, etc. sites:''' === | ==== O'''nline family genealogy sites, pedigrees, family history, etc. sites:''' ==== | ||
<br> World catalog at http://worldcat.org/. In the '''Subject'' field enter the surname and “family” like this, ''Prescott Family''. This searches the catalogs and displays the results from thousands of especially U.S. libraries at once. | <br> World catalog at http://worldcat.org/. In the '''Subject'' field enter the surname and “family” like this, ''Prescott Family''. This searches the catalogs and displays the results from thousands of especially U.S. libraries at once. | ||
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Gen Serve at [http://www.genserv.com/ http://www.genserv.com/] is a large gateway website with 1000’s of website links to it | Gen Serve at [http://www.genserv.com/ http://www.genserv.com/] is a large gateway website with 1000’s of website links to it | ||
=== '''Repositories and libraries''' === | ==== '''Repositories and libraries''' ==== | ||
Search those libraries and prepositoriesholding the largest collections of compiled sources with online catalogs. Many of them especially hold published or manuscript family histories, genealogies, biographies and other compiled family and local histories (and many of which may have one and often more—internal alpha-arranged listing or index or related database[s]). If an publication is found, often you can order it through the Inter-Library Loan Service. | Search those libraries and prepositoriesholding the largest collections of compiled sources with online catalogs. Many of them especially hold published or manuscript family histories, genealogies, biographies and other compiled family and local histories (and many of which may have one and often more—internal alpha-arranged listing or index or related database[s]). If an publication is found, often you can order it through the Inter-Library Loan Service. | ||