standard date format
day, 1st 3 letters of the month, year
ex. 09 Jan 1944
standard place format
city, county, state, country
estimating birth dates
- you can calculate the birth date from a known event
ex. 1860 census says someone is 6 go back 6 years and you have an approximate birth year - you can approximate a birth date based on other info
ex. someone died during WWI put apt 1914, they died prior to the war then before 1914
Saviors on Mount Zion
we become saviors on mt zion when we do saving ordinances for our ancestors
minimum info needed for temple ordiancnes
name, sex, event date, event place (baptism and endowment), additionally need name of parents for sealing to parents, and spouse, marriage place and date for sealing to spouse
what do you generally assume about estimating a birth date from a marriage event
assume the man is 25 and the woman is 21, then estimate from there and put abt and at the year
estimating birth dates of children from a marriage date
the first child is a year after the marriage, then it goes every 2 years
recording names of females
- use the maiden name
- if you don’t know her name at all, use mrs. and her husband’s name
setting goals
- should be precise, quantifiable/measureable,
- could be finding a person’s name, a place name, or an event date
jurisdiction
- authority within specific boundaries for specific purposes
- records in a specific location defined by borders
- you want to know who made the record and where they’re stored today - county, state, govt., church, archive, church library etc.
inquiry
- step 1 of the FH research process
- it’s going over what is already known
research
- where can I find the missing data?
- looking for records to look at
content of a pedigree chart
- parents, grandparents, etc.
- birth date and place
- marriage date and place
- death place and date
international genealogical symbol of birth
*
international genealogical symbol of infant baptism
~
international genealogical symbol of marriage
∞
international genealogical symbol of death
†
international genealogical symbol of burial
▢
international genealogical symbol of divorce
⚮
roots magic
- personal family history program
- can document sources
- print reports (pedigree and family group sheets)
- Display Names Uppercase” “LDS Support” “New FamilySearch Support
- import data from family search, pick 4 generations
what is found on the first floor of the FHL
the discovery center
what is found on the second floor of the FHL
US and Canada microfilms
what is found on the 3rd floor of the FHL
US and Canada books and maps
what is found on the B1 floor of the FHL
international everything
