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Vital records help you fill out your family group sheet or pedigree chart and clues to their parentage.Some of them are available online for free, especially: 1) Arizona 2) And Missouri at Missouri digital heritage.Try , family , state websites (for example Search: Norton County, Kansas Genealogy), Linkpendium, Cyndi's List, Mocavo, (tells about SSDI, Social Security death index, see more below), , rootsweb...If you don’t have a subscription to , the Torrance Public Library, Kent Ave. Mormon Library, and Palos Verdes Library have a subscription. Get a library card for them if you need one.Kent Ave. Mormon Library also has Proquest obituary listings and world vital records.Where to write for vital records: cdc.ov/ncs/w2w.tm, select pdf. You can print or save. I suggest you print and put it in a vital records notebook.in your vital records notebook, you can keep track with a Word document (or your favorite processing software) you create of: 1. Records/certificates I have, I separate them into: Birth Records, Marriage Records, Death records which at the bottom of death I also list categories of obits, funeral cards, tombstone pictures, family thank you's in the newspapers, guess I should add listed on SSDI, their social security No., and SS-5. Their Social Security No. is sometimes listed on their Death Certificate. I list as BC Edith Ramsburg; MC Berger-Ramsburg, DC Edith Smith.2. Records to obtain: (search for, order online or write away for) and (I list name, date of event, kind of event, location of event. if birth: parents' names, female's birth name; if marriage both couples' names; if death: name at death.)3. Records requested: with the date mailed or ordered online and check no. or online ordering #, etc. It's a good practice to keep a file or notebook of Original records. Never take original records with you to research! They may get lost, stolen, damaged... You can get vital records online for a higher fee at vitalchek. Advantage: They should come quicker, no stamp, shaves a few days off receiving time.[ over]At home you may find, marriage announcements, or newspaper articles, obituaries, funeral cards, a family Bible, etc. Some family may be listed on the Social Security Death index. You had to have a Social Security Card or be a recipient of death benefits to be listed here, and the death had to be reported to the Social Security administration. This began about 1962. Some deaths were reported before 1962. In March 2014, they enacted a 3-year privacy rule from the date of their death. Not all deaths are listed. It's better after late 1980's. If the person is listed, you can usually order a copy of their application form for a Social security card. There is a fee. The card has more info than the Death index. The card lists the date and place of birth and parents' names. The parents have to be proved dead to release information. The birth date has to be over 120 years ago or applicant is at least 100 years old. The SSDI can be found on: ancestry - over 90 ml. records Genealogy Bank free to search if registered, over 90 ml. records family search - free search Rootsweb free search, links to Ancestry.These sources may give you clues to places, dates, burial places, marriages, last residence, death dates and parents. Contact your living relatives. There are long and short forms on birth records. You want the long form, it has more info.You may have a souvenir marriage certificate that was given to the couple at the time. That's what I had for my parents and in-laws. The real marriage certificate has more info!There are also Delayed birth certificates for when they were born at home & wanted to enter the military in WWII and later, apply for a Social Security Card, and for San Francisco residents when the Fire destroyed the original records, etc.free Legacy download at: click on standard edition, free download nowfree Rootsmagic download: click on free downloadWeek 2: Mission Possible: Choose 1 or more. Ideas for future work:[ ] computer[ ] get a free download of Legacy, Rootsmagic or other software. [ ] Use it and find your preference/s. My preference is:_________________[ ] Gather birth, marriage and death certificates from your home and relatives, especially someone interested in the family history. (offer to pay for shipping and copies if you can't go to your family historian's home in person.)[ ] If you have a Birth, Marriage and Death certificate for someone in your family, practice doing a citation for it. I love sticky notes. Practice on a sticky note, then Connie suggests making a label of the citation and putting it on the front of the certificate or record. If you put it on the back, they may forget to copy the back side.[ ] look online for a free birth, marriage or Death Certificate for one or more of your ancestors.[ ] If you send away for a birth certificate, provide them with: (besides a check, do you need to include a self-addressed and postage stamped envelope also?) the person's birth name, birth place, birth date and their parents' names. Sometimes you may just have a date range.[ ] For a Marriage Certificate, provide the couple's names, place married, date married. You can include their parents' names too. [ ] for a death certificate, provide the name at death, the parents' names. For a female, you may want to provide any other of her married surnames, the date and place of death.[ ] Make a vital records notebook. In it put the: [ ] pdf with addresses and costs [ ] the handout for states and what dates are available. [ ] a document in Word (or other program) that you create listing: [ ] Vital Records I have [ ] Vital records to find online or send for: [ ] Vital Records Requested with the date requested, check no. or online receipt no. or copy of letter, order form or receipt.[ ] go through your pedigree or family group files with the blue handout showing states and dates and see if there are records you can search for online or send away for. [ ] Note these on Vital records to find online or send for and keep in your Vital Records Notebook.note: as you are researching, note surname variations, and keep a list of them for future searching.as you enter them, don't just change the Surname they show to how you know it's spelled. List it as a surname variation and list the source. ................
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