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Exploring Your Family History

Exploring Your Family History. How many of you were born in Springdale? Who wasn’t born in Arkansas? Were any of your parents or grand parents born in another country? Have any of your family members served in a war?

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Exploring Your Family History

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  1. Exploring Your Family History

  2. How many of you were born in Springdale? • Who wasn’t born in Arkansas? • Were any of your parents or grand parents born in another country? • Have any of your family members served in a war? • Do you have a piece of furniture, an old book, or a picture that has been in your family for a long time? • Is there someone notable in your family? Hello! My name is jack

  3. Ancestor: a person from whom you are descended. • Pedigree Chart: a document that records your ancestors. • Genealogy: the research and study of family history/ancestors. • Generation: a family group representing a single step to an ancestor. • Archive: a place where public records or historical documents are kept. • Census: the numbering & collecting of information about our population by the government. Definitions

  4. When? – Every 10 years • How? – By households • 1st Census: 1790 • The 1890 Census burned in Washington DC • The latest census we can see and study is 1930 Census

  5. Census 1790-1840 Lists head of household only Example: Paul Revere, 1810 Census in Suffolk County, Massachusetts C E N S U S 1 7 9 0

  6. Census 1850-1870 Records everyone in the household, but not the relationship to the head of the household Example: Abraham Lincoln is enumerated on page 140 of the Sangamon County, Illinois, 1860 Census Schedule

  7. Census Records everyone in the household and the relationship to the head of the household. Enumeration districts are noted. 1880–1930 Example: Laura Ingalls Wilder is enumerated on page 2A of the Wright County, Missouri, (Enumeration District 152) 1900 Census Schedule

  8. Location • US-The National Archives www.archives.gov , Library of Congress • State-Genealogy websites www.argenweb.net • County-Genealogy websites www.webofroots.com/washington • Subscription sites: www.ancestry.com • Free sites: Cyndi’s list • Types of Records • Land - www.glorecords.blm.gov/ • Wills – County and state records • Military - www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ • Birth, death, marriage – County and state records US & State Archives

  9. Meredith Guthrie Megan Guthrie Kyle Guthrie Kip Guthrie Mary Jackson Harold Guthrie Wanda Kuhn Marla Rankin Jack Jackson C. L. Guthrie Louise Karns Earl E. Kuhn Louise Horton H. A. Rankin Anna Roller John Jackson Lillian Sexton Family Tree Generations

  10. Edward Garland, b 1821, d. ? Research and Documentation Source: National Park Service, Soldiers and Sailors System URL: http://cwar.nps.gov/civilwar/soldierssailors.htm Date: March 20, 2004

  11. Edward Garland, b 1821, d. ?

  12. Confederate Prisoners Of War – Point Lookout, Maryland

  13. Eddie Black • Talk to your family members and ask them to tell you their story • Written • Recorded • Fill out the chart we give you and see if you like it • Source • Dates • Places What Can YOU do?

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