with Jan Gow December 2018 Browns Bay U3A What is Genealogy? It - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

with Jan Gow

December 2018 Browns Bay U3A

What is Genealogy?

It is an allergy!!!

Once you have caught it .......

You can’t stop scratching!!

BUT - it’s wonderful!!!!

An incredible hobby

The Roots And The Fruits Of Your Family T ree

Golden Rules

Start with yourself Work from known to unknown Find Your Family Fossick for memorabilia Find gaps Fish for information Fill gaps Repeat and repeat as required!!

5 W’s of Genealogy

WHO are you looking for? WHERE were they? WHEN were they there? WHY were they there? WHAT has been done before?

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What is available?

Civil Registration Census Returns Church Registers Cemetery Records Computers!!

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Have Pedigree Chart

• will travel

It is your ticket It is your itinerary It is your diary It tells you who, where, when to research It tell you what to research It is your memory jogger It is your first step

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Let’s look at Your ticket!!!

Will travel the information highway!!

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This is how you will know where to travel on this wonderful journey This is how you will be able to plan your journey This is how you will know when and when to travel This is how you will know where you have been!!

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T en golden rules

WHAT TO RECORD ON A PEDIGREE CHART

• 1. Start with yourself (or you could start with a

spouse, parent, child as #1)

• 2. Work from known to unknown
• 3. Males on even numbers
• 4. Females on uneven numbers
• 5. Write forename and then the surname
• 6. Surnames in CAPITALs
• 7. Use female maiden names
• 8. Write date—DD Mmm YYYY
• 9. Record your source—so we all know how you

know what you know!

• 10. Record place in full—town, parish/region,

county/state, country

Use Jan’s pedigree chart & it will be your reference also

The key ...

Don’t worry about the numbers

Forename first Surname in upper case Month in 3 letters Pencil until proved Circle C for person’s info F for others mentioned Place in full Write clearly!

Forename SURNAME Forename SURNAME Date place Date place

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Work In Progress

Let’s START!!!!!

Digging for Roots ...

Finding Fruits .....

Genealogy program

Most important .....

Legacy Family Tree - free version Roots Magic - free version Family Tree Maker

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A S D ?????

?????? LET’S LOOK AT THE GESTURES

High Wide Down

Still puzzled?

Reaching high ....

Back to your ......

Still puzzled???

Reaching wide ....

Out to the ......

OK now???

Deep to the .....

Very Important People!

A S D’s

Ancestor’s Sibling’s Descendants

Let’s look at footprints!

Where can we find them

Rolls

Records

Returns

Registers

Resources

Repositories

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Rolls, Records

Electoral Rolls Trade Directories Passenger Lists Wills Occupations Sheep Owners

Returns, Registers

Church Records Cemetery Records Newspapers Obituaries Civil Registers School Records

Resources, Repositories

Archives Family Histories Libraries Museums Societies Biographies FamilySearch Centres

There is so much to do!!

You know a little about your family ...

You have an idea of the who, the where and the when! You can see a possible family on the English census Let’s look to see if we can confirm what we think we know!!

The Census - 1881 & 1871

1881 John Whitehead, nephew, 14, born Padfield, Derbyshire in c 1867. With his uncle Samuel Ellis

Census 1891 & 1901

John & Emily with son Wilfred & mother-in- law Hannah Wood

Step 1) in NZ

Check to see if there is a possible death for John & Emily. And children?

Step 2) Passenger List

Step 3) Electoral Rolls

Electoral Rolls

Wilfred marries then dies

Step 4) Death Registration

John & Emily Whitehead

Death Registration

John (1st part) PrintOut NOT certificate Parent’s names, Mother’s maiden name Father’s occupation

Death Registration

John (2nd part) Where born, how long in NZ. Where married, age & to whom, age of relict, age & sex living children

Death Registration

Emily (1st part) Parent’s name including Mother’s maiden name Father’s occupation

Death Registration

Emily (2nd part) Birth place, age & how long in NZ. Where & who married, age. Sex & age of living children

Let’s look at NZ Family

Found on a US census

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1860 census 217 people born in NZ 1900 census 1642 people born in NZ 1920 census 3201 people born in NZ 1930 census 3796 people born in NZ 1940 census 3718 people born in NZ

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Abernethy family

NZ BDM’s

Passenger List, Electoral Roll

Marriage, Electoral Roll

Marriage Registration

PrintOut (1st part)

Marriage Registration

PrintOut (2nd part) Where born Where live Parent’s names, including Mother’s maiden name Father’s

• ccupation

Names of Witnesses

Marriage registration

Grooms parents:

James ABERNETHY (Labourer) Margaret GAIR

Brides parents:

Arthur WARREN (Basketmaker) Martha WOODINGTON

Siblings!!

Lots of ASD’s

Deaths

Electoral Rolls birth Scotland 1st World War

Others Researching

Make contact with this person

So, which records have we used?

Rolls Records

Electoral Rolls Passenger Lists Wills

Returns

Registers

Cemetery Records Newspapers Obituaries Civil Registers

Resources

Repositories

Archives Family Histories

How can we access these records:

ElectoralR

• lls:

www.findmypast.com.au www.ancestry.com.au Passenger L ists: www.findmypast.com.au www.ancestry.com.au www.familysearch.org

/search/collection/1609792

Wills: www.familysearch.org

/search/collection/1865481

How can we access these records:

CemeteryR ecords www.ancestry.com.au

Newspapers, Obituaries

www.paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

Civil Registers - Civil Registrations - Births, Deaths, Marriages

www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz

How can we access these records:

Archives: www.archway.archives.govt.nz Family Histories www.ancestry.com.au www.familysearch.org

Other records still to research

NZ Society of Genealogists www.genealogy.org.nz

Occupations Sheep Owners Trade Directories Church Records School Records

Biographies

Libraries

www.natlib.govt.nz/directory-of-new-zealand-libraries

Museums

www.nzmuseums.co.nz

Societies

www.genealogy.org.nz

FamilySearch Centres www.familysearch.org

Other sites to sight

Just in case there are some foot prints ... www.digitalnz.org gathered from record collections around NZ. Photos, newspapers etc www.nzhistory.net.nz Topics, events, people, places www.teara.govt.nz Encyclopedia of NZ www.geneamap.kiwicelts.com great for NZ cemeteries

www.famnet.co.nz family data & family stories www.nzetc.victoria.ac.nz NZ Electronix Text Collection www.matapihi.org.nz pictures, sounds, movies, texts etc www.yesteryears.co.nz shipping, provinces, online resources

Wonderful NZ research!

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country wide search - you don’t have to know where in NZ to start a search good information on the free index for births, deaths, marriages easy to search for all children born to a couple and so have a list of ASD’s to work with birth date or age on death registrations index helps narrow your searches very good information given on civil registration -birth place, age, parents names etc very good supporting resources to confirm your research

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Just enough to get you scratching!!!

And NOW you Know What you can look for & Where, and How, to Look!!

So .........

Get Scratching!!!!