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Free Genealogy and Family History Online - The USGenWeb Project Sewing At About - Free Sewing Patterns & Projects, Learn How to Sew, Sewing Machine and Serger Information, Free Sewing Lessons & More Genealogy Today: Family Tree History, Ancestry, Free Lookups Google Genealogy Style Google is the search engine of choice for most genealogists I know, due to its ability to return relevant search results for genealogy and surname queries and its huge index. Google is much more than just a tool for finding Web sites, however, and most people surfing for information on their ancestors barely scratch the surface of its full potential. If you know what you are doing, you can use Google to search within Web sites, locate photos of your ancestors, bring back dead sites, and track down missing relatives. Begin with the Basics - Google automatically assumes an implied AND between each of your search terms. - Google is case insensitive, with the exception of the search operators AND and OR. - Google will return results that contain all of your search terms, but will give higher priority to the earlier terms in your query. Search With a Focus - Use around any two word or greater phrase to find results where the words appear together exactly as you have entered them.

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RootsWeb.com Home Page Family Trees Searched at Ten Sites | Family Tree Searcher Castle Garden Bestselling Books - Reviews and Resources on Bestsellers Evidence Explained | QuickLesson 17: The Evidence Analysis Process Map Sources give us information, from which we identify evidence. All undergo the evaluation process to produce proof. Users of Evidence Explained well know this mantra. The Evidence Analysis Process Map lays it out in a tidy graphic on EE’s flyleaf. Fig. 1, in this lesson, gives the newly expanded version.[1] So how does this mantra fit into our daily work? EE hopes you answered: None of the above. So it is with historical research and analysis. QuickLesson 17 will give you that foundation. Sources This analytical element comes in many formats. Original Records: documents that represent the origin of a tangible source—the first time it was written or the first recorded utterance. Information The “facts” that our sources provide also come in three basic classes: Primary information: that is, information based on firsthand knowledge. Evidence Evidence is our interpretation of information that we consider relevant to a particular research question. The Evaluation Process We correlate details. Item 3

Stephen Porters Talk at SocGen A genealogical talk on the Records of Jamaica, given during a half -day course, titled "The West Indies", and held at the Society of Genealogists, London, on Saturday, 21 June 1997. By Stephen D. Porter, London NW2 411N. INTRODUCTION Just over 30 years ago, on the 12th February 1966, the late Mr. Philip Wright delivered a lecture before this Society, titled "Materials for Family History in Jamaica." The text of this lecture was published in "The Genealogists' Magazine" of the Society, in September that year. The lecture was one of a general nature, including a broad sweep of the island's history and record keeping. Jamaica's official written records are comparable in quality to any British records made during the 17th through 20th centuries. There are 2 main locations for Family History researchers in the island and these are concentrated in the south-eastern part, where the Administrative and Financial centres are to be found. There is sometimes confusion with the 2 parishes of St.

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