Participation in Family History
These people extract information from original records to help genealogists locate them.
What are indexers?
More than 34 million people immigrated to this country in 1824-1924.
What is the United States?
Firsthand recording of a birth, death, or marriage.
What is a vital record?
The 3 types of genetic tests available to genealogists.
What are Mitochondrial, Ydna, and Autosomal DNA tests?
The chart frequently used to show multiple generations of a person's genealogy.
What is a pedigree chart?
This website has the largest amount of historical records and allows you to create a family tree.
What is ancestry.com?
In 1620, 102 Pilgrims arrived on this ship.
What is the Mayflower?
A place for the storage of old records.
What is an archive?
Your grandmother's cousin's son's relationship to you.
What is a second cousin, once removed?
This group requires a documented genealogy in order to become a member.
What is the D.A.R.? (Daughters of the American Revolution)
This website helps you find the graves of your ancestors.
What is Find a Grave? - or - What is Billion Graves?
Processed over 8 million immigrants from 1855 through 1890.
What is Castle Garden?
The title of a census taker.
What is an enumerator?
5 August 2003
What is the standard form for recording dates in genealogical research?
When doing research, following this practice is a mistake.
What is relying solely on your family's oral history?
This website visually organizes a FamilySearch tree to reveal new areas for research.
What is puzilla.com?
People left this country from 1815 to 1865 because of a massive famine.
What is Ireland?
From this year onward, there are more than 30 million US Census records collected.
What is 1930
Maintains the largest genealogical library in the world.
What is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints? (LDS)
These people check indexed/typed records to make sure they are correct.
What are arbitrators?
The government agency that collects and maintains declassified information and makes it available for research purposes.
What is NARA? (National Archives or National Archives and Records Administration)
The country with the largest immigrant diaspora in the United States.
What is Germany?
A document attested to as a true copy of the original.
What is a certified copy?
The old wasting disease we now know as tuberculosis.
What is consumption?