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A popular commercial genealogy website that is frequently advertised on TV.
What is Ancestry.com
The act provided land in the western United States to settlers
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
A tool to organize and track the types of records you need to find for an ancestor, helping you conduct a comprehensive search and avoid missing important documents.
What is a genealogical source checklist?
A company in Houston, known for dedicated Y-DNA testing
What is FamilyTreeDNA?
The year of the earliest U.S. Federal Census in which the relationship is given of everyone to the head of household.
What is 1880?
Marge, Peggy, Margot, Megan, Daisy
What are name variations of a given name?
A genealogy website managed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
What is FamilySearch?
This month is officially Family History Month in the U.S.
What is October?
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What is the standard date format?
The year Clayton Library open to the public?
What is 1968?
A special census of Union Civil War veterans and their widows, listing names, military service details like rank and regiment, enlistment and discharge dates, disability information, and post office address.
What is the 1890 Veterans Schedule?
A person who is interested in cemeteries, gravestones, and the history, art, and culture associated with them.
What is a taphophile?
A major UK-based commercial genealogy site that features records for Britian and Ireland?
What is Findmypast?
The disease that killed the most soldiers in WWI.
What was the "Spanish Flu"?
This term refers to tough research problems, dead ends in your research.
What is a brick wall?
Website set up by founder Cathy Nelson Hartman, the former Associate Dean of Libraries at the University of North Texas.
What is The Portal to Texas History?
This census was the first and only one to record the birth month and year for every individual.
What was the 1900 census?
To be eligible for citizenship in the Cherokee Nation, you must submit documents that prove your ancestor was listed on what records?
What are the Dawes Rolls
An Isreal-based commercial genealogy site with a strong collection of European records.
What is MyHeritage?
This event forced many Irish ancestors to immigrate in the 1840s.
What was the Great Famine or Potato Famine?
The number of years that a U.S. Federal Census is kept private before being released to the public.
What is 72?
Texas started requiring the registration of birth certificates in what year.
What is 1903?
These censuses included the "number of years in current marriage" for married individuals.
What are the 1900 and 1910 Census.
A technology used to search for information within the entire content of documents or a database, not just in specific fields.
What is Full Text search?
This website helps you to the find the graves and headstone images of your ancestors.
What are Find a Grave, BillionGraves, or Internment.net?
1861
What was the start of the American Civil War?
A geographical area assigned to a census taker to be counted during a census period.
What is an Enumeration District?
What year was the building completed next to the historic house to accommodate the growing collection, which now comprises the Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research.
What is 1988?
This census asked if the home had a radio.
What is the 1930 census?
A genealogy TV show featuring celebrities and host Henry Louis Gates.
What is Finding Your Roots?