Family Tree 101
What is the term for your mother's mother's mother?
Who is your great-grandmother?
This U.S. government record is taken every 10 years.
What is the census?
This war, starting in 1861, created many military and pension records in the U.S.
What is the Civil War?
Your ancestor was listed as a blacksmith. This is the material they worked with.
What is metal or iron?
This tool shows generations of your family with connecting lines.
What is a family tree chart?
This document shows ownership and location of land.
What is a deed?
This pandemic in 1918 appears in many death certificates.
What is the Spanish Flu?
A cordwainer was not a sailor—but instead made these.
What are shoes?
This month is officially Family History Month in the U.S.
What is October?
What do we call siblings of your grandparents?
Who are great-aunts and great-uncles?
These three types of records are often grouped as “vital records.”
What are birth, marriage, and death records?
Ellis Island began processing immigrants in this year.
What is 1892?
This occupation involved working on a printing press or setting type for newspapers and books.
What is a typesetter or printer?
This term refers to a dead end in your research.
What is a brick wall?
The term for children of your first cousin
Who are first cousins once removed?
A legal statement of a deceased person's final wishes.
What is a will?
The Homestead Act of 1862 encouraged settlers to do this.
What is claim land in the West?
In census records, someone listed as a cooper would have made these wooden containers.
What are barrels or casks?
This tech device helps digitize old photos and documents.
What is a scanner?
The Latin term “née” means this in genealogy.
What is maiden name?
This religious record often includes baptism, marriage, and burial info.
What are parish/church records?
This event forced many Irish ancestors to immigrate in the 1840s.
What is the Great Famine or Potato Famine?
A knocker-upper had this early-morning job before alarm clocks were common.
What is waking people up (by tapping on windows with a stick)?
Genealogists often use this Latin phrase meaning “from the beginning.”
What is "ab initio"?