This free printable family tree chart is used to document the names, locations and specific dates of personal events for three generations of individuals. Family tree diagrams are helpful for reporting on specific groups within a family or for use as a research tool and reference.
Do you own any old pictures that were taken of famous people, taken at historic events, or snapshots of groups or individuals being honored for something special? Please forward scans or other electronic copies. A clear digital photo of the old documents works nicely too.
The Shoot ‘Em Up project also aims to collect and exhibit the names of those honored for just about anything, including plaques on walls and building faces, monuments, and inscriptions found anywhere. Names engraved or on plaques at the police department, fire department, schools, churches, clubs, at the lodge or anywhere individuals were recognized. Any old group photographs complete with names. Old bulletins, leaflets, books, booklets, pamphlets are also welcome but must include the cover and the copyright page so that we can obtain permission to use them. Any publication submitted must be dated in some way, and should be of antiquity. Shoot it with your camera, your phone; It doesn’t matter as long as the names are legible. If you don’t see anything like this on any regular basis and want to join the fun, do a cemetery drive-by and capture a few headstones. Show that you’re outgoing and drive through rattling off a handful of pictures.
All pictures submitted must include the location, anything additional you can tell us about the picture and a date taken. Be as specific as possible. Capture the entire inscription so that we know what the names are being displayed for.
Correspondence should be sent to “shootem” at geneosity.com
Please forward electronic files to the email address with the descriptions and other information and we will post it to the site as soon as possible.
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Post below includes photos and the names listed of a Civil War Memorial located at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Sidney, Illinois.
Geneosity.com is an online resource for the genealogy or family history enthusiast. Here you’ll find a guide of the most useful websites and methods of locating the information that you seek. Each resource will assist in facilitating your family tree projects effectively.
There are literally hundreds if not thousands of potential sources from which you can investigate the genealogy of your family. For every online resource cited herein, there are dozens of offline or “in print” books, photos, newspapers, directories and other items also available though many libraries and local government records. Each have their benefit. In libraries and other historical repositories of family information the benefit is in gaining access to items not indexed elsewhere. Each trip to the library or to family history centers offer to uncover something never seen before except in print. In many cases you can see the first-hand documentation from the actual sources, but you need to be physically located in these places to see these records. No person can conduct their research completely from the internet, in libraries or even at a family history center provided by the Church of Latter Day Saints. A concerted effort using all of these resources are usually necessary.
Researching ancestry data items online is a different methodology. Most online resources cite thousands and millions of records at some point scanned, copied or otherwise transcribed for your reading pleasure in whatever location you choose as long as you have an internet connection. Being capable of browsing information from a broad variety of sources literally across the globe has advantages and disadvantages. The vast amounts of information can make it difficult to find exactly what you’re looking for but you can indeed get much closer to the actual source online.
Below is our list of the most useful online genealogy resources. Some are very well-known and some are less-known or niche sites.
This printable free genealogy research journal is used in family tree research to assist in organizing research sources.
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