Articles related to "Genealogical Data"

U. S. Social Security Applications contain data on numerous people born after 1865. This data is of genealogical significance to family researchers.

The availability of online resources have vastly enabled today's genealogy researchers, but it has also created a much greater need for verification of the information.

Records of early southern settlers east of the Mississippi are sparse because of Spanish and Indian jurisdiction. Passports give genealogical data on some of them.

Gilles Jansz Mandeville was among the early colonists of New York, arriving from Holland in1659.

Willem van Vredenburgh was among the early colonists of New York, arriving from his native Holland aboard the ship Gilded Beaver in 1658.

These birth and death records are for Haskell family members from Newbury and Newburyport, MA, who were born before 1800. Most include names of parents.

Thomas Hurlburt reportedly crossed the Atlantic in 1635 with Lion Gardiner, who built and commanded the fort at Saybrook, Connecticut.

Here is a single source giving Scots family researchers data on thousands of 17th century Scottish immigrants to Maryland and Virginia.

Genealogists love to find family Bible records and here are two sets of them for the Corbet family of Mendon and New Braintree, MA.

John Webster (1590-1661), fifth governor of the Connecticut Colony, was born at Cossington, England, and died at Hadley, MA.

Edward Bompasse arrived in Plymouth Colony in 1621 on the ship Fortune. He settled at Duxbury and later at Marshfield, Massachusetts.

A collection of 186 genealogy columns from a Yarmouth, Nova Scotia newspaper, has been put into book form. Here is a list of the major families mentioned.

Extensive genealogies of 34 of the early families of Dover, NH are given in an old Dover, New Hampshire history still available in a 530-page reprint.

Robert Park accompanied Governor Winthrop from England to America aboard the ship Arabella in 1630. He later settled at Wethersfield, then Stonington, Connecticut.

The collected works of David Dobson, specialist on Scottish Immigration to North America, are now available on one compact disc.

Nova Scotia's earliest immigrants included Loyalists from America's Thirteen Colonies and families from Scotland. Here are two sources for locating them.

The 1850, 1860 & 1870 US Federal Census Records were first to list every person by name. Genealogical data includes age, birthplace, and clues to land records.

Public records are the bread and butter of family tree research. Take advantage of historical societies to help locate public records for your ancestors.

Using fee-based online genealogy resources is advisable if a genealogist has exhausted free resources or if a person spends most of their time on genealogy.

The 1900 & 1910 Federal Census Records have much data for genealogists, including military service, birth month and year, marriage & immigration information.

George Bowman devoted more than 50 years to finding records of Mayflower families. A contemporary genealogist has extracted 10,000 marriages from his records.

A short 1798 Irish Rebellion may have set the stage for Ireland's warring factions during the next two centuries. Sir Richard Musgrave gives one perspective.

A lineage society commemorates colonial clergy for their roles as founders and leaders of the first American communities.

Finding notable people in one's family tree is part of the fun of genealogy. There are several good resources for researching your celebrity ancestors.

Family history genealogy has had different focuses through the centuries. From the halls of aristocracy to the shelves of archives genealogy information is examined.

Canadian missionaries working in the Canadian-United States border region often baptized Irish Catholics in New York and Vermont. Here are some of those records.

What does GEDCOM stand for? What are patronymics and collateral lines? What does née mean? And what about that strange word, Ahnentafel? Here are genealogy definitions.

Twenty-seven volumes of Civil War records published from 1865 to 1871 became so rare that these burial records were reprinted in the 1990s.

Records for any of America's first settlements are valuable to genealogists. Here's a source for colonial burials in Wethersfield, CT.

Family tree research could reveal family information from centuries ago. Genealogy is the ideal hobby for history buffs.

Birth, death, marriage, and divorce records not only document important life events in your ancestors' lives, but also provide hints for further genealogical research.

There is a wealth of genealogical information on the Internet, and much of is it available at no cost. Here are a few of the best free sites for your family tree research

Before diving into the World Wide Web, genealogists start with basic family information. Only then can the family tree begin to grow, with carefully chosen resources.

The 1920 and 1930 Federal Census Records contain much genealogical information, and are often the first public record for beginning genealogists to access.

The life experiences of loved ones should be remembered long after they are gone, and oral histories make that possible.