The one who seemingly has no records or takes so much work to dig up one record

I finally found some Info on mine. I went back to the basics and asked some family who was alive when I believe this mystery person was and it helped a lot. let’s hear yours!

I know folks here on Lemmy love FOSS so I’d suggest Gramps if you’re looking for suggestions!

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For me anything before about 1750 is pretty murky and the records are harder to find and confirm

Did they live amazing live? Did they pass away in a odd way? Let’s hear Whatever stories you’d like to share!

I’ve done this a few times including members of my family who passed in the 1800s. It always felted strange knowing this is my family from over 200 years ago and I can visit their final resting place even today. Has anyone else done this and what’s the oldest headstone you’ve visited?

I’ve seen this a lot in my research every family seems to have one even my family tree has a women some claim was a Native American(or about 3 other races the story isn’t clear) but what’s up with this?

What is genealogy? Defined by Wikipedia, genealogy is “the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages.”

Why should I get into genealogy? There are many reasons! Genealogy is a great hobby for those interested in their family,history,and many other topics. It can teach you more about yourself. 

Where do I start? It may seem overwhelming at first, but don’t worry; it’s not as hard as it seems. The best place to start is to see if anyone in your family has done any research themselves. Many families have at least one member who has a small family tree or a stash of helpful records. Once you have determined if you have any resources to give you a head start or not, you must make another choice. Where do you go from here? Will you focus on a certain branch of the family tree? Or will you go for a more general approach and try to tackle multiple branches? This way is more complicated, and I would recommend not taking this route unless you are experienced. 

What should I look for? Official documents are your best bet, as they are the most accurate, and courthouses and local libraries are likely to keep copies. Birth certificates, marriage certificates, draft cards, etc. are very useful as they contain birth dates, death dates, places of residence, and other useful information. Don’t be afraid to ask family members as well. If you have relatives who were alive during the lives of your great-grandparents or other family members, they may have information you did not know about.

By this point, it’s very likely you’ve been gathering a lot of information or maybe even started your own family tree. It’s very important to keep this information organized. Depending on how you’d like to conduct your research, there are many different methods. If you’d prefer to stick to pen and paper documents, I would suggest a good binder and multiple folders that are clearly marked and neatly kept. For those of you who wish to take your work digital, there are several free and paid resources that can help.

Free 

Familysearch

Family search

A great tool for both creating and maintaining a family tree, it provides free digitized records of your family and may show you a family tree created by others, saving you a lot of work.

Pros 

Free

Gives access to various records across many sites. 

Collaborative 

Cons 

There is no way to lock a tree, which allows for vandalism.

Some people may have false relatives on the tree 

Gramps (FOSS)

Gramps

A Linux native program useful for offline family tree management, according to the website, is “a free software project and community. We strive to produce a genealogy program that is both intuitive for hobbyists and feature-complete for professional genealogists. It is a community project, created, developed, and governed by genealogists.”

Pros

FOSS

Can be used offline. 

Support for multiple trees 

Cons 

Outdated interface 

Can be confusing for first-time users.

 Find a grave

https://www.findagrave.com/ A index of thousands of cemeteries and millions of graves

Pros Free Easy to use Community transcribing system

Cons Graves may have incorrect information which requires the profile managers to accept edits

Paid 

Ancestry.com

One of the largest paid genealogy services Ancestry has thousands of paid records.

Pros

Lots of records 

Cons 

pricey 

Newspapers.com  https://www.newspapers.com/

A archive of thousands of newspapers

Pros Lots of papers from many places

Has free days

Cons Pricey Index system may not provide exact march for searches

This is nowhere near a complete list, and suggestions and more will be added soon.

Hello everyone! As the previous mod of this community is no longer active I requested to be made mod and am very thankful to the admins to granting my request. Over the next week I will be attempting to revive this community so stay tuned!

Hello, I just wanted to share with you the info that I successfully found my great great grandfather which I mentioned in previous post here

https://lemmy.world/post/186728

Just few days ago I received the death certificate from Wisconsin Department of Health Services and I can confirm that it's my great great grandfather and the grave I mentioned in previous post is indeed his grave.

I want to thank everyone who helped me, it was a wild ride and it took few years but at last, I reached successful finish. Thank you all

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Hello everyone I made a post earlier but I decided to delete it. I worded it very poorly and would like to rephrase it. From what I can tell the first ever photo was taken in 1816 or 1826. If anyone can find other wise please let me know. There is a famous picture of my of my 5th great grandmother that has been passed off as her for many years but I was able to prove that It was a different women entirely. Some people claim to have photos dating back to the 1700s which I believe are not authentic but I could be wrong. I am sorry for my earlier post as I wrote it quite quickly. I hope to see this community more active too thanks for reading.

If you know me on r/genealogy, you've seen this post from me before. It usually succeeds in generating conversation, so I'm hoping we'd all like to talk about it here.

So for me:

1. Morgan Cremin b.1821 m. Ellen Egar b.1826

They married in 1848 in Co. Kerry and promptly boarded a ship for the U.S. in order to escape the famine. They settled in SE Illinois. It appears Ellen's father's name was Jacobus, which I think is James? Cremin, I have learned, is an agnomen for McCarty, and indeed, my uncle has a lot of McCarty matches at FTDNA. In the U.S., the name morphed into Crimmins.

2. George Hazlett b. 1795 m Agnes McKee b. 1799

Family lore says George's family were originally from Scotland, but I haven't confirmed that. His children were born in Co. Monaghan. I found an Agnes McKee born 1799 in Co. Down, which might be my Agnes (she went by Nancy). George and Nancy and their adult children also fled the famine in 1850. George died on the ship, and Nancy and her children settled in Monona, Iowa.

3. George Hazlett Jr. b. 1824 m Jane Whittaker b. 1830

In Monona, Iowa the younger George married Jane Whittaker, who had emigrated from Co. Sligo with her aunt and uncles. Her parents and sister had all died in the famine. Her aunt who cared for her was named Ellen Irwin.

4. Robert Stunkard b. 1759

He settled in Pennsylvania, and may have been born in Co. Down. It's been suggested to me that the name might have originally been Stankard.

5. Samuel Clark b. 1790 m Jane Millar b. 1785

Samuel and Jane were from County Down and they settled in Quebec.

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Hi everyone, I have this address from a Milwaukee cemetery, the person is maybe my gggfather. If I read it right it's "3511, 37th street"(No. means North? Or number?) I wanted to verify this by finding this address in a 1930 census (he died in 1934). I'm not from US and I'm really struggling to understand the US street system and how the collection of that census was performed.

I found this website to help me narrow the results

https://stevemorse.org/census/unified.html?year=1930

so I put there the address and as suggested, I took a look on the Google Map to see which street crosses it. The closest is Keefe Ave so I set it as such. It gave me 2 results.

https://i.imgur.com/mEtT0dE.png

I went through both of them and nothing. Actually the house numbers on 37th street weren't even close to 3511 in those reports, they were around 1000 - 1500.

What am I doing wrong? How the street numbering works in the US? Also just out of curiosity - why weren't addresses indexed in Family Search?

How do you manage your trees? Myself, I use webtrees. The interface may be a bit "old" and the handling of media in particular could have been better, but it's an online solution (so I have my tree available all the time), it's open source, it's 100% standards compliant, and the community is wonderful, so ... What is your favourite programme?