Online Detecting 201
While I was attending the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG) in January of 2017, I attended this class that was sponsored by FamilySearch . The class was pretty basic but the in class exercises were a bit challenging. There were two people in the class that could find the records fairly easily but the rest of us had to work at it. They gave us this paper to do at home. It is much harder.
It challenged me to really learn how to manipulate the FamilySearch and Ancestry data base searches. I learned both of their advantages and disadvantages. They both have effective search engines, but they are different.
At the bottom of the second page you will see a FamilySearch Copyright. To use the material in ANY WAY you must receive permission in writing. It wasn't easy to do but I was able to accomplish that task and have permission to use it in any of my teaching and to post it on my blog. You would have to do the same to share it in any way.
When you attempt this exercise, go directly into the specified record sets to do your searches. Your can customize your home page on Ancestry so the to US census years are quick links. If you do that it will save you lots of time. Which you will need because you will spend a good amount of time on this activity.
I was very disappointed when I learned there was no answer key. When I finally figured them all out, once using Ancestry and once using FamilySearch, I made my own answer key. I am sure there are quite a few ways to find the records but I have written up the ways that I found the records.
Email me for the answer key at peggyashaz@hotmail.com.
DON'T GIVE UP AND CHEAT by getting the answer key too soon!
You will learn a lot in the effort of trying. I did!
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