FamilySearch Research and Record Search Update
Brenda Kellow
May 22, 2011
FAMILY SEARCH: You can search many other countries and find an enormous amount of information simply by going to FamilySearch, www.familysearch.org. Their other source for discovering material using FamilyRecordSearch, http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start. The records on this site increase weekly. Currently there are more than 600 million names in countries all over the world. Included in these are the United States, Canada, Mexico, England, Germany, France, Argentina, Brazil, Russia, the Philippines just to mention a few from this database. This is a free Internet site.
Once you are in Family Record Search you can use the search box at the top of the page or just click on a place on the world map. Doing so gives you access to all the record groups available for that country or region.
CLAIMING BLOOD ROYAL: The Genealogist.co.uk announced recently that almost half of the United Kingdom’s population relate to a British king or queen. Many Americans also descend from British royalty. When you get into royalty, researchers find these same royal families’ bloodlines reach back to France, Germany, and Italy to name only a few.
The Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval originally published the compiled records in 1903 where they documented every descendent by order of primogeniture of the crowned heads, particularly Edward III, Edward IV, Henry VII and James III through the 19th century. You may also find dates of births and deaths and marriages. If you have your ancestry back to British royalty and want to check to see if you are related, that is possible by subscribing to the site at http://thegenealogist.co.uk/.
FOOTNOTE: www.Footnote.com continues to add records of interest from the Confederate and Union Civil War Service. The service records of Colored Troops continue to grow, also.
Other records available on this site are the Revolutionary War pensions; Pennsylvania Archives; Civil War and later veterans pension index; Civil War Service Records; World War II United States Air Force Photos and FBI case files; Dawes packets; and missing aircrew reports. Footnote.com is available in the library or for a fee on your home computer.
FEDERATION OF GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES (FGS): FGS began in 1976 and it represents hundreds of genealogical societies. The annual conference this year is in Springfield, Illinois, September 7-10. The theme for the conference this year is Pathways to the Heartland. They sponsor many projects in their quest to preserve resource materials of genealogical and historical significance. Their projects include digitizing the War of 1812 pension records; the Records and Access Committee works nationwide to establish a system to preserve records at risk; the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System database of more than five million names; the World Archives Project works with others to make more records available to researchers around the world; and the Malcolm H. Stern-NARA Gift Fund provides the creation of finding aids and the microfilming of valuable research materials preserved in the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Washington, D.C. You can access the FGS home page at http://www.fgs.org/index.php. FGS provides an online form for you to enter your Family Group Sheet at http://www.fgs-project.com/states.php if you so desire. The instructions are included. Not all states participate in this project at this time.
Brenda Kellow has a bachelor's degree in history, teaches, and lectures on genealogy. Before retiring to publish her family’s histories in 2007, Brenda held certification as a Certified Genealogist and as a Certified Genealogical Instructor. Send reunion announcements, books to review, and genealogy queries to: [email protected].
Once you are in Family Record Search you can use the search box at the top of the page or just click on a place on the world map. Doing so gives you access to all the record groups available for that country or region.
CLAIMING BLOOD ROYAL: The Genealogist.co.uk announced recently that almost half of the United Kingdom’s population relate to a British king or queen. Many Americans also descend from British royalty. When you get into royalty, researchers find these same royal families’ bloodlines reach back to France, Germany, and Italy to name only a few.
The Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval originally published the compiled records in 1903 where they documented every descendent by order of primogeniture of the crowned heads, particularly Edward III, Edward IV, Henry VII and James III through the 19th century. You may also find dates of births and deaths and marriages. If you have your ancestry back to British royalty and want to check to see if you are related, that is possible by subscribing to the site at http://thegenealogist.co.uk/.
FOOTNOTE: www.Footnote.com continues to add records of interest from the Confederate and Union Civil War Service. The service records of Colored Troops continue to grow, also.
Other records available on this site are the Revolutionary War pensions; Pennsylvania Archives; Civil War and later veterans pension index; Civil War Service Records; World War II United States Air Force Photos and FBI case files; Dawes packets; and missing aircrew reports. Footnote.com is available in the library or for a fee on your home computer.
FEDERATION OF GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES (FGS): FGS began in 1976 and it represents hundreds of genealogical societies. The annual conference this year is in Springfield, Illinois, September 7-10. The theme for the conference this year is Pathways to the Heartland. They sponsor many projects in their quest to preserve resource materials of genealogical and historical significance. Their projects include digitizing the War of 1812 pension records; the Records and Access Committee works nationwide to establish a system to preserve records at risk; the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System database of more than five million names; the World Archives Project works with others to make more records available to researchers around the world; and the Malcolm H. Stern-NARA Gift Fund provides the creation of finding aids and the microfilming of valuable research materials preserved in the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Washington, D.C. You can access the FGS home page at http://www.fgs.org/index.php. FGS provides an online form for you to enter your Family Group Sheet at http://www.fgs-project.com/states.php if you so desire. The instructions are included. Not all states participate in this project at this time.
Brenda Kellow has a bachelor's degree in history, teaches, and lectures on genealogy. Before retiring to publish her family’s histories in 2007, Brenda held certification as a Certified Genealogist and as a Certified Genealogical Instructor. Send reunion announcements, books to review, and genealogy queries to: [email protected].