Building our Family Tree

Building our Family Tree

1850 US Census

1840 US Federal Census,

Maury County Tennessee

1880 US Census

Does Spelling matter?

NO!

Be open to many spelling variations and aware that indexers can make mistakes

Dates that are good to know!

1790: First American Census

1850: Everyone in House Hold Listed

1880: Place of Birth listed, Relation to head of household

1890: burned in Chicago Fire

1940: Available online and indexed

Starting your family tree on ANCESTRY.COM

CENSUS TIPS

Spelling will change and very

Look at the actual document when possible, index will only give you so much

Find your people in EVERY census possible

Look for birth patterns, women tend to have children every 2-3 years. If you notice a large gap, it is likely you are missing a child!

Have a place to keep your new found clues!

Use FamilySearch as a guide

to help gather information

https://familysearch.org/tree/person/K2H6-XM2/details

What we did last week

Census Research

Ancestry.com

Week One: Getting onto FamilySearch and other genealogical websites

ie: ancestry, find my past, myheratige

Where are we going?

Week 3: Probate and other records

Week 4: Indexing and Taking names to the temple

TODAYS OBJECTIVE

Introduced the Wiki

1. Starting our own Family Tree

2. Census Research

3. Vital Research