PERSI has their own website, which gives users easy access to any kind of publication by typing it into the search. This is why people take MONTHS building their family trees. Yes, this sounds like a tedious step to take, but it could help! No one said the search is easy. These connections may have written about your great-great-grandmother and tell a clue about your next step, such as the year your ancestor came to the United States.
The "friends, acquaintances, and neighbors" club, which means looking for people who may have been associated or lived near your ancestors. How do you know if you need to look in a newspaper? Tennant recommends looking for clues to the "FAN" club. Probates don't just state a will or death date, they also may list valuable items your relative may have had. What Genealogy Resources Can You Turn To?Ī few great resources to get to the next step include, probates, newspapers, and PERSI, which stands for Periodical Source Index. "You need records to verify," Tennant says.
Just because my grandpa swears a certain date was 1880, it could be 1890 after someone recorded is wrong on either a certificate or online.Īre you seeing a pattern? The pattern is: Don't trust others. I am the stubborn type and HAVE to believe that every birthdate or death date assigned to my great-grandparents is the real deal. Another problem people face is one that I, personally, can understand. Hundreds of possible names will pop up along with the other matching data, such as the birth date or death date that you've entered.Ģ. If you have a mysterious last name like this, you can put a question mark in the spot where the unknowable letter may be. Greek names, for example, had a "V" sound but were spelled with a "B". Ancestry has the choice of putting multiple possible letters within the same name. Therefore, the legal spelling quickly became "Starwald."Īlmost all genealogy databases have options to type in other possible letters.
If they came from overseas, chances are good that her name could be "Steuerwald" or "Steuerwalt" because the family's name was recorded in a census with incorrect spelling. This is figuring out if your family's surname has changed.įor example, your grandmother's maiden name may be Starwald, but nothing is showing up in the search for her parents. Let us first divulge into the most common problem that can stump new (or aspiring) genealogists. Tips and Tricks from The Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne, Indianaġ.
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