Where To Go When Your Stuck?

Today I read a wonderful Blogspot called Nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com where Heather Wilkinson Rojo

has listed 10 Unexpected Places To Find Family. If you would like to read all of the information she included, just follow the Title Link above. All I have kept here are those guides that include links.

Ms Rojo began her blog by listing places researchers usually look online for ...vital records, probate records, deeds and land records, census, immigration records, historical societies, church records, compiled genealogies, genealogical journals, military records, newspapers, county and town histories.   But what are the unusual places to look?

Before you use these great links you need to know where to look, and my favorite research tool is writing the Timeline. When you consider where to look for information on a family member try putting together their Life-line... Birth certificate, Baptism record, School records,  Jobs and Census records, Marriage, Titles of Property, etc.

Now that you know what is missing you can narrow your ideas of which of the next ten areas to look!

From your lifeline write a storyline, then imagine yourself in that timeline. What is missing

1.  Blogs –
Genealogy Blog Finder   http://blogfinder.genealogue.com/  searches almost 1,800 genealogy blogs.
GeneaBloggers http://www.geneabloggers.com/search-geneablogger-member-blogs/  this link searches over 3,000 member genealogy and family history related blogs

2.  Poverty Records –  

Poorhouse records by State   http://www.poorhousestory.com/records.htm

Check the extensive list at Cyndi’s List http://www.cyndislist.com/poor/  for more links

3. Lineage Societies – The DAR library http://www.dar.org/library in Washington, DC
The General Society of Mayflower Descendants has a website https://www.themayflowersociety.org/
 Cyndi’s List for links to societies with online resources http://www.cyndislist.com/societies/lineage/ 

4. Facebook (believe it or not!)  This link has two PDF files http://socialmediagenealogy.com/genealogy-on-facebook-list/ 

5. eBay-
http://ebay.about.com/od/searchingeffectivel1/a/se_monitor.htm

6. Art Museums- 

7. Academic Archives – 

8. Religious Archives
The Congregational Library in Boston (see the database of digital collections at this link: http://www.congregationallibrary.org/digital-collections )
The Quaker Information Center http://www.quakerinfo.org/resources/genealogy

9.  Cemetery offices – Some private cemeteries, such as the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts run an online database for burials http://mountauburn.org/map/  

10.  Fraternal or Civic Organizations – The New England Historic Genealogical Society (members only) has a database of Massachusetts Masonic registration cards www.americanancestors.
The Scottish Rite Masonic Museum and Library at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, Massachusetts has an online catalog http://www.nationalheritagemuseum.org/ 

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