Cemeteries

Cemeteries are everywhere. I've noticed over the years how many will take time during the summer months to visit family, both living and passed on.

I recall our sons assisting over memorial day with placing American Flags on the graves of veterans who had passed away. They were return home being uplifted from the experience. One's final resting place is usually all that is visible to show of your stay here on this earth.

In research, we often find a missing date or name on them and other times we are lucky to get more. With all of the wonderful tools available to us today, taking photos of these graves and uploading them to either FindAGrave or Billion Graves is a wonderful help to many who may be looking for the grave of the one you uploaded.

As you travel from town to town, you'll find some in the most unlikely of places, but they are there waiting to be found. Overseas, many of them are very difficult to read because of weather and the number of years they have been standing. Fortunately, back in the 1970s, many of the historical societies started taking an inventory of those in the cemeteries born before 1850. Later they went back and retrieved the rest. Those entries are called "Monumental Inscriptions" and can be found through the Family History Library's catalog. Depending on the copyright they may be available online!

We send our thanks to all who are helping by uploading of the tombstones around the world to share with all. Some cemeteries have posted their own lists of who is buried in their area; it's worth checking it out if you don't find it listed in either FindMyGrave or BillionGraves. 

Note there is an index to Billion Graves on FamilySearch. DeceasedOnline is a paid site, however, they are considered "the central database for UK burials and

cremations.

To find other locations where there are listings for your ancestral area, be sure to check the FamilySearch Research Wiki as well as Cindy's List.

Enjoy this and many other websites already discussed in past blog articles.

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Website: FamilySearch Research Wiki

This is one of Family Search's hidden gems. The Family History Research Wiki is wonderful tool for everyone who is doing Family History or Genealogical Research. Whether you are a beginner or an expert, there is something here for 
all to learn concerning research, historical content, strategies, etc.

Note that at this time there are 82,781 articles one can find help on. From the simplest to the complicated it is here.

Simply type in the search box a topic and the end results will be a list to review and make a selection. Let's see what is available for those beginning to learn how to research:

According to the listing there are 1,230 articles, these are the first few listed. Let's review the "New to Genealogy - Beginners First Step":

Note the choices and we've only looked at one of the results. From the above list, one can easily work slowly through the various steps and get a good grasp of the step to take and how to get started in their ancestral journey. This is their Easy as 1-2-3:

As you can see this site as much to offer anyone. There are strategy articles as well as learning how to cite one's sources and documents and great places to look for records all over the world.

The Family History Research Wiki can be located by clicking on this link.

Take some time and check it out, you will be amazed at all it has to offer!

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Beginning Research Steps..

You've done all the basics, added all the information from family members and relatives and you still have many bits of missing information and you've only gone back a couple of generations, now what?

This is where you begin to take time to look for the missing information and family members from various online databases or repositories if necessary and become a bit of a genealogy detective.

Looking at your pedigree chart is the first step to finding what is missing. If I look at mine, I notice that I've got a number missing ancestors to locate:

I'd like to introduce you to the Research Process...if you follow this you will always be able to be through in your research and follow its design. FamilySearch Wiki has a great article on this which takes you step by step through the research process: https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Research_Process

1) Identify what you know

2) Decide what you want to learn

3) Select records to search

4) Obtain and search the records

5) Evaluate and Use the Information

In my diagram above, I could use this guide to seek out the parents of William Gimson, Thomas Marsh, Francis Stallabrass, William Andrews and Anne Brignell.

With all the choices, I need to carefully look at each one and follow these steps.

Have a stab at it, next week I'll write up my step by step and let's see how good each of you did. Feel free to share.

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Building Bridges for All Generations!

Claire (*)
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