I Found Them On The Census: Now What?
It all started with the 1921 census. Follow the Franklin family from Saskatchewan to Ontario and to England. Learn how to use census, civil, and church records as we track this family back 4 generations. Find out how to extract information from censuses, calculate birth, marriage, and death dates and create a database to organize facts. Then discover where to find government and church records that will verify the facts. All this from census records!
Lecture Outline
1. Find all the census records
-How to finding census records around the world
-Read the entire record
2. Tips for getting information from the census
-Create database in Word or Excel
-Extract information from database
3. Where to look next
-Civil records
-Church records
How to find the records available
4. Case study – Follow the Franklin family from the 1921 Canada census in Saskatchewan to Ontario to England, using census, civil, and church records to go back 4
generations.
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Tara Shymanski
Tara Shymanski is a professional genealogy researcher, lecturer, and blogger. She has a Bachelor of Arts in History and a Professional Learning Certificate in Genealogical Studies. She has presented at genealogy conferences in United States, Western Canada, the local genealogy society, and the Family History Centre in Calgary.
Her siblings would not listen to her stories, so she blogs about her ancestors at Shymanski Genealogy Research. Her family now reads and enjoys the stories. At least, that’s what they tell her.
