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Midterm 2 Flashcards

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Original/ Primary Records

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-created at the time and place of the event by someone with that responsibility (church or govt.)

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examples of an original record

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  • birth and death records (in state after 1900)
  • marriage records (after 1900 they’r done on the county level)
  • Vital records (birth, marriage, death)
  • church records (baptism/christening, marriage, burial)
  • land deeds
  • naturalization and citizenship applications
  • probate records
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compiled/secondary

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-data compiled from original record

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examples of compiled records

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  • family indexes
  • family histories
  • county histories
  • most websites
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1790-1840 census

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  • head of household

- number of household members and general age groups

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why a census

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  • in U.S/ wanted to count everyone to determine how many representativesf rom each state go to Congress
  • used to be direct taxation
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1850 census

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  • gender
  • name
  • approximate age of everyone in the household
  • occupation
  • place of birth, state or country
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1880 census

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  • relationship to head of house

- 3 places of birth for everyone (theirs, and their parents)

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1890 census

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destroys in a fire - not much remains

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1900 census

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  • year of immigration for foreign people
  • naturalization
  • month and year of brith
  • number of years married
  • how many children born to mother
  • how many children are alive
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1910 census

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-country and language for immigrants

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1920 census

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-country and language separate columns

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1930 census

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  • occupation
  • where they work
  • can you speak english
  • when did you come here
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1940 census

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  • x in a circle next to who provided the information

- where were they 5 years ago (same house, same town, write where they were)

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what is the most recent census available to the public

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  • 1940
  • public release happens are 72 years
  • 1950 will be in 2022
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census records in the states

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-on the 5s

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Civil Records

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  • outside of the United States

- one office that has birth, marriage, and death records

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Parish

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  • smallest unit of a Christian church
  • located wherever the numbers are sufficient
  • records are kept in the vicarage
  • population is established by the church
  • rural parish often included several towns cities will have more than one parish
  • has baptism/christenings, proclamation/arriages, death/burials
  • they change
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Vital Records

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  • in the US
  • birth, marriage, death
  • most records were kept by counties prior to 1900
  • 20th century states star keeping birth and death - marriages are still county
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Church Records

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  • 1st church records in Europe are 1500

- christenings, marriages, burials and other events

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what info is in a christening

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  • child’s name
  • parents names
  • godparents/witnesses names
  • date of christening
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what is in a church marriage record

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  • date of marriage
  • names of brie and groom
  • sometimes the names of the parents
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what is in a burial record

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  • date of burial
  • deceased name and age
  • sometimes residence
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reasons for immigration

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  • economic - land ownership
  • religious freedom
  • escape bondage of Europe - bad living conditions, choose an occupation etc
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between 1820 and 1892 which port did most immigrants go through

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castle gardens

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passenger arrival lists

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  • 1820 start keeping regular list of immigrants
  • compiled lists have place of origin and foreign port of embark
  • customs passenger list weren’t kept after 1891
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naturalization records

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  • 2 legal requirements - declarations of intention and petitions for citizenship
  • 3 documents: declaration of intention, petition for citizenship, naturalization document
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info on naturalization records

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  • petitioners age
  • name changes
  • birthplace
  • port of debarkation
  • marital status
  • mailing address
  • names of spouse and children
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who processed naturalization records

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  • processed by district/federal, state, county, or other local courts before 1906
  • after 1906 immigration and naturalization service has copies of all records
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probate records

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  • last will and testament
  • includes will and administrations
  • divides estate among heirs
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info in a will

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  • genealogical data is seldom is given in older documents
  • estate value and location
  • testator name
  • date of will
  • names and residence of heirs
  • relationships
  • bequests to friends and relatives
  • instructions to the executor charged with overseeing the terms of the will
  • testators signature or seal
  • witnesses signatures
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land records

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-verify title of a property purchased from a grant and sold to a grantee

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info in land records

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  • seller - transferor/grantor
  • buy - acquirer/grantee
  • location of property
  • size of property
  • size of property
  • sale price/value of property
  • date the land was sold
  • name, residence, and occupation of grantor and grantee
  • previous owners of the property
  • date the transaction was recorded
  • whether the property was inherited under provisions of a will, military bounty, homestae
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military records

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-pensions are most applicable

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info on pension application

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-muster in/out
-war and service unit
date of birth
-age at enlistment
-physical description
-mmilitary campaigns and battles
-ranks and decorations earned
-disabilities incurred through military service
-pensions awarded to the soldier or his beneficiary
-testimonies of contemporaries
-places of residence
-marriage
-occasional names and birth dates of heirs

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what do gazetteers have

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-church records

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Jurisdiction

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-agency of agent responsible for keeping or maintaining specific records in a specific area

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Family History Records in Europe

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  • church records - go back to 1500
  • civil records
  • census records
  • emigration records
  • military records
  • land and tax records
  • notarial records
  • citizenship rolls
  • residential registration
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2 Nephi 25:21

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  • records written and passed down from generation to generation
  • promise fulfilled unto Joseph that seed should never perish because of the record
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Luke 2:1-2

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-taxes Caesar

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Ether 6:21

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  • numbered the people

- what they wanted to do before they died

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Rev 20:12

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  • book of life

- dead were judged out of the book

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D&C 20:82

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  • names of members of the church kept in a book

- an elder appointed to keep track of that

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Alma 27:22

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  • describes the location of Bountiful
  • Nephites (grantor) giving land to Anti-Nephi-Lehis (grantee)
  • given to them as an inheritance
  • land record
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D&C 90:15

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  • become acquainted with all good books, languages, tongues, and people
  • the more knowledge you have the easier it will be to do research
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1 Nephi 13: 13-14

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  • immigration
  • out of captivity - land, opportunity, futile system, captivity
  • many waters - the Atlantic Ocean
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Ether 2:12

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  • choice land
  • free from bonadge
  • immiagration again
  • lost the land for not following the Lord
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Ether 1:38

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  • Lord takes them to a choice land
  • receive their inheritance
  • prayed about leaving their homeland
49
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what info do you need for submitting names to the temple

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-have to know their name, gender, info that uniquely identifies them, standardized vital event place, info that shows they are deceased

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rules for submitting names to the temple

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  • must be a year or more after they died
  • within 110 years you have to get permission from their spouse, adult child, parents, siblings
  • if no one is living you have to wait 110 years to do their work
  • don’t do people you aren’t related to

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