Health 10 In-Depth Study
GENEALOGY
Getting Started:
1. Start with yourself on the family tree and work backwards!
2. Fill in a family tree with all the information you already know.
3. Collect information from your family through interviews, phone calls, cemetery records and other family records.
4. Prove, document, and record each generation before progressing.
5. Do your own research to find proof and cite original sources.
Interviewing Family Members:
--Be patient
--Take along pictures to start conversations
--Record the interview
Questions to ask for the Interview
FREE SITES:
- CASTLE GARDEN - Immigrant Search
- CHRONICLING AMERICA
- CYNDI'S LIST
- ELLIS ISLAND
- FAMILY HISTORY DAILY
- FAMILYSEARCH
- FIND A GRAVE - *** family members are linked!
- GENEALOGY
- NATIONAL UNION CATALOG OF MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS
- USGENWEB PROJECT
- U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES
- WIKITREE
- Minnesota Resources - *** see page 3 for Minnesota Resource databases
- ProQuest Newspapers - *** search through archived newspapers
Genuki - Genealogy of the United Kingdom & Ireland
Africa - Africa Genealogy & African Family History Resources
AncestryK12 has awarded a grant to students of STMA High School for classroom access to:
Please follow the grant requirements or the grant access will be terminated.
- Ancestry.com - genealogy research (on-campus access only)
- Fold3 - military records (on-campus access only)
- Newspapers.com - historical newspapers (on-campus access only)
Please follow the grant requirements or the grant access will be terminated.
- Students will need to print and/or save most of the records that they find while using the sites.
- Students are prohibited from creating user accounts on these three sites. If any student is interested in signing up for accounts and gaining access to non-classroom versions of these websites, the student's parent or guardian must be the person that sets up the accounts.