United States Research Tips and Strategies
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United States Research Strategies[edit | edit source]
- How to Find United States Birth Records
- How to Find United States Marriage Records
- How to Find United States Death Records
- United States Record Finder
- Tracing Immigrants Search Strategies
- How to Locate Your Ancestor in the United States
- How to Recognize your United States Ancestor
- Online Genealogy Records
United States Research Tips[edit | edit source]
- Birth Information - For information on finding birth records see How to Find United States Birth Records. A helpful substitute record to find birth information is a death record. However, date and place of birth on a death record is considered secondary information, as it was not recorded at the time of the birth event. The birth information should be corroborated with other substitute records to improve accuracy.
- Finding Parents - Death certificates will often list the names of the parents.
- Look in all censuses: Always look for your ancestor in every possible census. There are clues regarding immigration, naturalization, and occupation that can lead to other records. Sometimes parents can be found living with their children later in life. Search U.S. Censuses.
United States Research Tips Videos[edit | edit source]
- Genealogy TV (Presentation on different topics in genealogy)
- Family History Fanatics (Presentation on different topics in genealogy)
- The Genealogy Reporter (Presentation on different topics in genealogy)
- Elevenses with Lisa (Webinars on different topics in genealogy)
- FamilySearch is Live! (Webinars on new features on Familysearch)