Known Info
- Searching for
- Birth Details
- Birthyear
- 1830-1840
- Birthplace
- Anywhere
- Marriage Year
- Anytime
- Marriage Place
- Anywhere
- Childrens' Birthyears
- Anytime
- Childrens' Birthplaces
- Anywhere
- Death Year
- Anytime
- Death Place
- Anywhere
- Preferred Research Tip Type
- Original, Official Documents
Work Done
Work To-Do
Use Ancestry.com's record hints
Ancestry.com can give you automatic record hints (e.g. suggesting a birth certificate for one of your ancestors) without you doing nearly anything. To get their automatic record hints, you just need to sign up for ancestry.com and enter as much of your family tree as you know. After that, ancestry.com… Read More...
Check the Family Search Wiki for Tips
If you can't find any more good research tips in Dead Easy, the Family Search wiki is a great resource for finding research tips. Go to https://familysearch.org/wiki/en Click on the continent your ancestor is from Then click on the country Create a research tip in Dead Easy for each tip you… Read More...
Inspect sources in family search
If your ancestor is listed in familysearch.org, chances are there are some sources attached to them about their birth, death, etc. Sometimes the details on the sources give you some other clues. Eg, the source on the person's birth might be from a relative's obituary. That relative might already be… Read More...
Search FindAGrave.com
FindAGrave.com is a database containing photos and information from 162 million graves. Often there are pictures of the graves, but usually there is important vital information like birthdate, date of death, parents, spouses, and children. Just go to findagrave.com's search page and enter as much information you know about your… Read More...
Search Ancestry.com's public family trees
The thing you are researching may have already been found and published by a distant relative on ancestry.com. Go to the ancestry.com public member tree search page, and then enter the information you know about the ancestor for whom you are searching. I've found this search page didn't help me… Read More...
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