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Successful
genealogical research often hinges on identifying the localities in which our
ancestors lived. Thus one must fully realize
that resources which enhance our knowledge of the places inhabited by our
ancestors are almost as important as their names. Once we know the vicinity, we are in a
better position to consult the records and histories in an effort to piece
together the lives of our fore-bearers.
As such, the primary purpose of these web pages is to provide you with
a clearer picture of places we’ve identified as the ancestral locations of
our direct ancestors. As you explore this
area of our website you will find that we address each place with a separate
and distinct page about each Country, State, and county, (or its
equivalent). Within each county page
we have attempted to address many of the specific places, or what we refer to
as the gen-sites identified during our research. These gen-sites may be as broad as a city
or town, or a specific as the location of a home-site. In addition, you will also find the
surnames of persons who lived within the specified ancestral locations, as
well as links to additional resources that will assist with your research of
the locality. |
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Denterming
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HOW TO FIND THE
ANCESTRAL LOCATION
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To find
information about an ancestor, you need to determine at least the country the
ancestor lived in for an event such as birth, christening, marriage, or
death. These suggestions may help you identify where your ancestor lived: 1. Start
from what you know. If you are confident about where one ancestor lived,
start with that ancestor and work back to the next generation. U.S.
Censuses from 1850 on are a great place to start, as they contain
birthplaces for everyone in the household.
Federal Census documents from the 20th century also include
immigration years. In earlier
censuses, children's birthplaces and ages can give you an approximate
immigration year. Keep going back
through census years until you discover an ancestor born outside of the
United States. 2. Search
for birth details by checking cemeteries,
obituaries,
military
records, immigration
and naturalization documents and most importantly birth,
marriage
and death
records for mention of a hometown or county. Use census discoveries to find
immigration details in passenger lists. More recent lists may include a birthplace
and the address of a close relative back home. Earlier lists can point you to friends and
family from the same area who arrived on the same
ship. Survey previous research, and
see what others have listed. For
example at FamilySearch™ your computer will search the Ancestral
File, the International Genealogical Index, and other Web sites that may
contain information about your ancestors.
3. Find a
place where one or more members of the family lived, and look in the records
of that place for members of the family. You may find parents living with a
child, or you may find information about the parents in a child's
record. Also look beyond traditional records. Church
records can mention births, baptisms, marriages, deaths, hometowns and
more. And an address from a census can lead you to nearby churches in city
directories. Land
records can help you pinpoint churches close to rural relatives. If you
hit a “brick wall” research someone else.
Records of an ancestor's sibling, cousin or parent could lead you to
the hometown you're looking for. 4. If your ancestor immigrated to the United States and you are unsure of the country he or she came from, click Tracing Immigrant Ancestors. |
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MAPPING
THE ANCESTRAL LOCATION
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It is said that approximately 80% of all
information has a locational element. When it comes
to family history this rises to 100%.
Ask yourself the question "what single fact connects every
single event in every single family tree everywhere in the world?"
Answer every event took place somewhere. This can be cemetery data, battle records,
birth, marriage, work, census, parish, county, journey, disembarkation,
hospitalization, incarceration (mental hospital and prison), disaster and
criminal records. Any record, in fact,
that has a locational element. One can hardly
conduct thorough, meaningful research on any family line without
incorporating the use of maps in some significant way. Find maps online is easy and there is an
abundance of them to use. Maps are
such interesting and exciting sources of information, and come in so many
varieties that their study and use could become an avocation in and of
itself. This section of the web page
will show you some mapping sites we like to use for genealogical
research. We believe that all are
useful in one's quest to discover early family origins. Below are some examples of Maps, Gazetteers, and Other Helpful Resources for Researching
Locations. These web sites comprise
only a small portion of what is available for researchers interested
in learning more about the areas in which their ancestors lived. If the list below doesn’t contain what you
are looking for, we suggest you try Odden’s
Bookmarks, which contains links to more than 10,000 cartographic sites. |
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OUR FAVORITE MAP
& ATLAS PAGES
(For Locating
Gen-Sites) |
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World Locations
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United
Nations—Cartographic Section ·
Panoramic Maps
Collection (Library of Congress) ·
Perry
Castaneda Library Map Collection ·
The American
Geographical Society Library ·
Library
of Congress (Geography & Map Collection) Historical Maps & Atlases (World Countries) ·
An Atlas of The German
Empire, L. Ravenstein (1883) ·
Topographic Maps of Germany
– pre World War II |
U.S.A. ·
National Atlas of the United States ·
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Home Page U.S.A.
Historical Maps & Atlases ·
Morse's 1845 North
American Atlas ·
U.S.
History Maps (Wikimedia) North America
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OUR
FAVORITE GAZETTEERS
(For Locating
Gen-Sites) |
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Standard
Finder can be of assistance to researchers in determining proper spellings of
locations and, |
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checking if
locations exist as well as determining alternate name spellings/variants to
expand research. |
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Germany ·
Directory
of Cities, Towns, & Regions in Germany ·
East and West
Prussia Gazetteer ·
Lists of German communities
by state & county United Kingdom ·
List of
United Kingdom locations ·
A Topographical
Dictionary of England ·
Index of Places
in England and Wales · List of places in Northern Ireland ·
A Topographical
Dictionary of Scotland Ireland ·
The Ireland Atlas / Database ·
A
Topographical Dictionary of Ireland Eastern Europe |
United States ·
U.S.
& Territories (USGS-GNIS Place Name
Search) ·
List
of cities, towns, villages in the U.S. - Wikipedia ·
Directory
of Cities, Towns, in United States ·
U.S.
Gazetteer (Census Bureau) ·
US Cities
& State Gazetteers (US Home Town Locator) ·
Geographic
Reference Library – Ancestry.com World ·
Getty
Thesaurus of Geographic Names ·
Directory of Cities and
Towns in World ·
Foreign Place Names
Search (USGS-GNIS)
o Volume 1: AA - Caspe o Volume 2: Caspian Sea - Iona o Volume 3: Ionian Islands - Poole o
Volume 4: Poonah – Zytomiers ·
Ancestry.com
Library—Geography Section $ France · Administrative divisions of France Canada |
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Researching
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If you are attempting
to perform research on ancestors from countries other that the United States
or Europe you should consider starting at this website that is sponsored by
Family Search. This Wiki offers Free
family history research advice for genealogy research by family historians,
like yourself.
Here you can learn from over 37,440 articles about how to research in
every corner of the world. From the list below, click on a country of
your choice. Within the countries,
information is arranged by topic. You
can learn about important record types, research methods, and repositories,
And this free online source is up to date with most current websites and new
of record availability. |
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FRANCE
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Wikipedia, the free
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GERMANY
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Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia ·
Free Genealogy Search Help For
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Rootsweb.com
– Localities - Germany ·
Genealogy.com:
Places/Geographic, Europe |
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UNITED KINGDOM
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United Kingdom and Ireland - rootsweb.com ·
GENUKI: UK
& Ireland Genealogy ·
UK
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Cyndi's List - United Kingdom
& Ireland Index ·
IGI
Batch Numbers-British Isles & North America ·
Genealogy
SiteFinder: United Kingdom ·
A vision of Britain
(on-line library for local history) ·
UK
Genealogy Archives, Heraldry and Family History |
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UNITED STATES
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Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia ·
Free
Genealogy Search Help For Google ·
Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA |
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During our research we have collected images and photographs
that are of general interest to a variety of localities. Some of them are presented on this website
because we believe they tend to provide the reader with additional
information which may aid in the understanding of our ancestors past lives. |
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If you have any
photographs or other images relating to these ancestral locations we would
greatly appreciate hearing from you. Use the following LINK to ascertain whether we have any
images that may interest you. |
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Enter the topic you are
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page you will see the image, as well as the website of which it is
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