Searching US Records – What We Found

DURATION: 20 MINUTES.

In this Module we share records and ancestor identifiers we discovered on the Dolphin family in the US following Pam Holland’s advice.

• Click on the play button in the video below to start the lesson.
• You can also click on the 4 arrows below the video to make it as large as possible for viewing.

TOPICS COVERED INCLUDE:

• We remind ourselves of the advice received from Pam Holland for searching ancestry.com to discover more records in the US to act as ancestor identifiers.
• We discover the answers to our primary research questions – and encounter some surprises along the way!
• We update our family tree with our newly discovered facts and citations.
• We plan our next steps of researching the Irish records using our newly-discovered ancestry identifiers for the Dolphin family.

ANCESTRY.COM TREES FOR THIS LESSON:

NOTE: The ancestry.com trees below are available only to current ancestry.com members. However, you do not need these trees to follow the training above – we just include them as a bonus.

• The Dolphin family tree we started our US-based research with can be found here.
• Our updated Dolphin family tree following US-based research with can be found here.

FURTHER REFERENCES AND RESOURCES FOR THIS LESSON:

• Stage 3 of the Research Roadmap – Carrying out Post-Immigration Research – is available here.
• Gathering Ancestor Identifiers lesson from the Research Roadmap is here – a blank ancestor identifier worksheet is available to download here.
• Go here to ask Pam Holland a question in the forum.
• Family History Learning Hub from ancestry.com

Would you like to ask questions about this course content? Click here to discuss it in the forum.