Research Option #1: WORK WITH ME TO RESEARCH A PERSON BEHIND A STORY, OR JUST INVESTIGATE AN ANCESTOR YOU ARE CURIOUS ABOUT (limited to first 20 students who submit the info)
Research Option #2 :EXPLORE DATA AND BE OPEN TO FINDING SOMETHING NEW!
Do not tell me the story!!!!
Let me show you what we can find out what I can find
out with just DATA.
This person *must* be be deceased, and it would help *tremendously* if they happened to have been born (and/or died) in the US and/or migrated here.
Data Points Needed:
Birth name (first, middle, last), birthday, state/county/city
Mother's maiden name, birthdate & state/county/city Father's name, birthdate & state/county/city Data on Spouse/siblings (if applicable)
Research Option #2 :EXPLORE DATA AND BE OPEN TO FINDING SOMETHING NEW!
Go through one of them or all of them and look for the documents that stir your curiosity, then discuss your research with me and write it up so that other people can learn from your insight*
Data Pool 1: 1916 Pennsylvania Death Certificates
Data Pool 2 1930 Pennsylvania Death Certificates
Data Pool 3: Fort Smith Arkansas Criminal Records Jacket 151
Data Pool 4: Almshouse Admissions, Oneida, New York
Data Pool 5: Mortality Schedules 1850-1870, Thomas and
Lowndes Counties
Data Pool 6: Michigan Divorce Court Rulings
Data Pool 7: Slave Manifests of Ships Arriving in New
Orleans
Data Pool 8: Mortality Schedule for Leon and Madison
Counties, 1885
Data Pool 9: Texas Death Certificates
Data Pool 10: Admissions to Almshouses in Richmond and
Queens, New York
