Tracking
Your Ancestor in the Census
Grab Your Saddle and Go Track Those Ancestors!
I've
experimented with several ways of tracking ancestors and/or ancestral
families in the census. I even created a chart that would work for
one person, though you could use it and just put in a family name
(example: The John Witherspoon Givens Family). It provides such a
wealth of information if you have the data from each census in which
the individual appears.
Some
of you are capable of creating spreadsheets for this purpose. Plus
there are a few things on the Internet that give suggestions, also.
And/or solutions.
However,
you do this, it is absolutely something that you want to do,
especially if you are having difficulties or brick walls. Of course,
the result will be a "census timeline" and should be
incorporated into a larger timeline of historical events or other
types of timelines. Your census research can become a stroke of the
brush as you create a portrait of your ancestors.
Consult
these sites to gain a better understanding of census tracking, see
and obtain tools for your project, and be motivated to create your
own solution to the challenge of working with census sources.
- FamilySearch Wiki is alive and well!
- (Related article) Family Tree Magazine
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