| Dear Fellow Genealogist,
When starting on a new research project, sometimes you don’t know exactly where to look. In cases like this, begin with a broad, general search, to get the lay of the land: to see what records are available, if people with you ancestor’s name turn up, and what search fields are available in the databases.
Then once you have found promising leads with the general search, you can move to search on specific places and specific documents.
In today’s newsletter, we share three articles that provide guidance for moving from the general to the specific. Ancestry.com’s Immigration Record Collection database is great place to start research for an immigrant ancestor and David Fryxell shares detailed steps to use it effectively. Next, Judy Nimer Muhn shares four great strategies for researching ancestors from a specific place, in this case from Acadia. Finally, learn more about a specific document – the declaration of intent.
Moving past the general search,
— Amanda, eLearning Producer, Family Tree University
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