Editor’s Note: For further reading on this topic, see “Comments on Royal Descent” and “Millennium Queens.”
In one of my mystery novels, the heroine, Priscilla Booth, muses about researching her Fitzpen line:”She liked the sound of the name and its earlier form—FitzPen. It smacked of nobility and might even lead to royalty. She’d like a royal line.
While tourism and government sites may not be your first choice when researching your family on the Web, the details they provide often help color the data you have already accumulated.
As genealogists, we tend to focus on the vital facts about our ancestors–birth, marriage, and death dates, and where our ancestors lived.
Lineage-linked databases (LLDs) are computerized files organized into families, pedigrees, and descendancies, as opposed to a serial listing of names. Some of the most popular LLDs available on the Internet include the Ancestral File™, the World Family Tree, and the Ancestry World Tree.
Notices of new genealogical books
Dutch Immigrant Memoirs and Related Writings, Revised edition Originally published in two volumes in 1955. Selected and arranged by Henry S. Lucas in a combined edition, 1997. Wil liam B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 255 Jefferson Avenue SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503; phone: 1-800-253-7521. xviii, 925 pages. Index. Softcover. $45.00 plus s/h.
A careful consideration of the differences between the terms sources and evidence can help greatly in establishing the true facts about family relationships.
From our earliest exposure to good genealogical techniques, we have been admonished to cite or document our sources and to evaluate our evidence.
A research tool that not only helps organize data, but also develops complex information that validates difficult-to-prove family relationships.
A popular discussion topic among family historians is how to organize and present the massive amounts of data they collect.
At the center of the BYU campus, in Provo, UT, is one of the largest genealogical collections in the United States, housed in the Harold B. Lee Library.
EDITOR’s NOTE: Each year people interested in genealogy and family history come form all across the United States and Canada, as well as many foreign countries, to do research in Salt Lake City’s Family History Library.
Experienced genealogists place great emphasis on confirming every fact or conclusion from original records, the cornerstones of family history research.
Experienced genealogists place great emphasis on confirming every fact or conclusion from original records, the cornerstones of family history research. Original records are sometimes called primary sources, a tribute to their importance.
When you find an original record that was made in advance of the event to which it refers, how much weight should you give such a document as evidence for the event?
You’ll occasionally find an original record, or perhaps an entry in an original record, that was made in advance of the event to which it refers. How much weight should you give such a document as evidence for the event?
Murder, scandal, notoriety, and more have prompted me to ask what the people of Connecticut must have asked: "What is it with those Tuttles?"
On an April evening in 1676, one Elizabeth Tuttle, a widow, age sixty-seven or thereabouts, was sitting in her chair by the fire. She had a comfortable house in New Haven, Connecticut (by the standards of the day), and her family was respected.
