![]() Besides you might find out that your great great uncle was an ax murderer! Exciting! They are a very underrated resource for you to find stuff. Check out the Newspapers page on this site for much more information regarding searching newspapers. But how about newspapers? I have found new names of extended family members stated in newspaper obituaries and other articles just as much as finding a family together in a census. Have you looked beyond document collections? Sure census records are popular, and draft cards and naturalization, land, and immigration records too.This may have given me quite a few folks who didn’t have the correct surname – but all I needed was one! The right one! Do you combine searches and omit surnames? For example – if you can’t find the surname in a collection – do you search for the husband’s first name and the wife’s first name also, in a specific geographic area? As an example, since their surname was often mangled, I often searched for husband “Ben” and wife “Jennie” (with a blank surname) in California because that is where they lived.You will be surprised at what you will find. Yes, I said deliberately misspell search terms. So you need to be creative with your name searching by deliberately searching for names misspelled or using wildcard searches. They are generally recorded by someone else from first or second-hand (or worse) information. There are very few if any documents available online that were written by the ancestor themselves. And then if there is an index created, it can be mistranscribed or mistyped. Do you do only exact searches? People who write down others’ names often write them wrong.Thousands of online collections are not named Ancestry or FamilySearch. Yes, these are huge resources, but just as everything isn’t online, all the online stuff isn’t in their collections either. Have you expanded your search? Just searching one or two online sources, such as or FamilySearch just isn’t enough. ![]() Then again, maybe I just haven’t found her yet. Even more worrisome is that since her mother’s name was also Carrie – maybe it was a census taker error. Had she not been born yet and the age 11 reference in 1880 was wrong? Was she in a hospital at the time of the census? Unfortunately, there is no 1890 census to help and by that time she could have married and changed her name. One would think that at age 11, she would have shown up in the 1870 census at age 1, right? Nope – she is not there with the family. She is documented as the daughter of Louis and Caroline Marks, aged 11, born in California. I have a great-great aunt, Carrie Marks, who shows up only in one record – the 1880 U.S. They aren’t there! Yes, this is a possibility.Cyndi's list of Genealogy sites on the InternetĪ comprehensive, categorised & cross-referenced list of links that point you to genealogical research sites online.This website provides information on how to research your genealogy and family history in South Africa. Genealogical Society of South Africa online branch.This society supports amateur family researchers. Postal address: PO Box 3033, MATIELAND, 7602 Physical address: 115 Banghoek Rd, STELLENBOSCH Genealogical Institute of South Africa (GISA).Each of the repositories which houses archival groups that contain genealogical information has prepared guides to genealogical research which enable you to find the information you require.Ĭontact information for government archival services Genealogical research forms a substantial part of the research conducted in archives.
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