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• How to Read Local Archives 1550-1700 by F. G. Emmison 942 G3em Page 12 is a will that is good for learning to read the handwriting. There is a translation with it. BIBLIOGRAPHY Dawson, Giles E. and Kennedy-Skipton, Laetitia. Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (Faber and Faber, London, 1968). FHL book 942 A8eh. Emmison, F. G. How to Read Local Archives 1550-1700 (The Historical Association 1967). FHL book 942 G3em. Gardner, David and Frank Smith. Genealogical Research in England and Wales (Bookcraft, Salt Lake City, 1964) Volume III. FHL book 929.142 G172g Vol. 3. Hector, L. C. The Handwriting of English Documents (Edward Arnold, London, 1958). FHL book 942 G3h. Hoskin, P. M., Slinn, S. L., Webb, C. C. Reading the past: sixteenth and seventeenth century English handwriting : facsimilies, transcripts & reading notes. (Peasholme Green, York : University of York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, c2001). FHL book 942 G3hpm Ison, Alf. A Secretary Hand ABC Book (Author, Reading, 1982). FHL book 942 G3i Munby, Lionel. Reading Tudor and Stuart Handwriting (Phillimore & Co. Ltd. for the British Association for Local History, Chichester, Sussex, 1988). FHL book 942 G3ml Preston, Jean F. and Laetitia Yeandle. English Handwriting 1400-1650: An Introductory Manual (Pegasus Press, Ashville, North Carolina, 1999). FHL book 942 G37p 1999. You can buy some of these online. Try www.genfair.co.uk or www.amazon.co.uk. © 2011 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reprinted, posted online, or reproduced in any form for any purpose without the prior written permission of the publisher. Send all requests for such permission to: Copyrights and Permissions Coordinator Family and Church History Department 50 East North Temple Street Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3400 USA
1. Where to Begin? a. Who are you looking for? b. Where were they living? c. When were they alive? Carry Me Back to Old Virginny Carol Swensen AG® swensengen@hotmail.com May 5 th 2012 2. Locate family on Census – Websites for Census: a. Ancestry.com [FHC or Subscription] b. Heritage Quest [FHC or Public Library Account] c. familysearch.org d. Censusfinder.com e. Census-online.com f. Virginia Tax Lists 1790 & 1800 Census Substitute http://www.binnsgenealogy.com/VirginiaTaxListCensuses/ 3. Maps a. State Map b. Which county? When was it created? c. Did the boarder change? i. Census Map Book – Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920, William Thorndale and William Dollarhide ii. Virginia County Maps and Atlases http://www.n2genealogy.com/virginia/vamaps.html iii. Randy Majors – Atlas of Historical Boundaries http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/statepages/Virginia.html d. Handybook for Genealogist e. Redbook by Ancestry 4. Research Guides and Resources a. FamilySearch Wiki - https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Virginia b. BYU Research Outline - http://net.lib.byu.edu/fslab/researchoutlines/US/Virginia.pdf c. FamilySearch Catalog - https://familysearch.org/#form=catalog d. Linkpendium - http://www.linkpendium.com/ e. Virginia GenWeb Project - http://www.vagenweb.org f. Time Line of Virginia - http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/usstates/vatimeln.htm g. Virginia History and Review - http://familytreemagazine.com/article/Virginia-historyresearch-overview 5. Major Repositories a. FamilySearch Historical Records - https://familysearch.org/ b. Library of Virginia - http://www.lva.virginia.gov/
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