In 1838, Georgetown College sold 272 persons to sugar plantation owners in Louisiana. This lecture will talk about the history of the enslaved persons included in this sale, the genealogies compiled on the families, and how you can find your connections to them.
In this lecture, search tips and other functionalities are demonstrated for several worldwide sites including Billion Graves and Find a Grave. There is also a short demonstration on searching cemeteries on FamilySearch as well as the American Ancestors databases.
Throughout American history, brave men and women have answered the call to serve our country and defend our families. Many of us can claim these courageous citizens as our ancestors. But how do we learn more about their service? Join American Ancestors for an overview of local, state, and federal sources for researching your ancestors in the Civil War, WWI, and WWII.
The local church was a central part of our ancestors' lives. This lecture will explore how to use Roman Catholic church records to find out more about the story of your ancestor, including baptism records, marriage registers, death registers, and confirmation records. The Historic Catholic Records Online Project at American Ancestors will be highlighted in detail.
Men were certainly not the only ones affected by—or involved in—the American Revolution. Women boycotted British goods, produced home-spun cloth and supplies for soldiers, and some even took to the battlefield. This presentation will look at women’s role in the fight for American Independence and how to research your female ancestors during this period.
Learn about the go-to records, resources, and research techniques for researching your Connecticut ancestors. This presentation will cover 17th to 20th century resources available at the state, county, and town level.
This lecture will review the different databases, repositories, and record collections available to research your ancestors who lived in Prince Edward Island, Canada. This lecture will focus on Irish immigrants and the records they left behind.
In the 17th and early 18th centuries, Maine (then part of Massachusetts), New Hampshire, and Vermont were considered frontier lands for the early New England colonists. Whether you are researching these states during the colonial period or present day, there are certain record sets and go-to resources that you should be aware of. This lecture will review various study projects, databases, manuscript items, and other resources available through American Ancestors and other online web sites that can assist you in researching northern New England.
This lecture will demonstrate how to discover details about railroad crew members in your family. This lecture will show how to find and use employee personnel records, Railroad Retirement Board pension files, railroad directories, maps, newspapers and railroad accident reports across different railroad companies.
Those that were called to serve as priests, nuns, ministers, rabbis, etc. leave a legacy behind. This lecture will explore how to use religious records as well as other record types (including military, land, probate and school) to rediscover their stories.
