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Q&A: Adding Documentation to
OneGreatFamily |
Learn How to Add Sources at
OneGreatFamily
In last week's newsletter we featured an
article on the importance of documenting your
family tree. The following are instructions to add
documentation information to your family tree at
OneGreatFamily:
To add documentation to an ancestor's record,
simply open an Individual Record in Genealogy
Browser. On the left side you will see buttons for
the different types of documentation features:
Citations: Citations are references to
the specific evidence that you have found on an
individual during your research. Citations are
very important for establishing the credibility of
information, but they can also help others in
their research. The information you save in the
citations becomes part of OneGreatFamily and is
available to others to help with the collaborative
effort.
Citations are stored with each specific
individual's information. When you click the
citation button, you are presented with the
citation window containing listings for Individual
Sources, Birth Sources, Death Sources, Christening
Sources, and Burial Sources. These five categories
help to group citations for quick access. Be sure
you name your citations with a title that is
explanatory and easy to understand at a
glance.
Biography: Open the Biography window by
selecting the Biography icon. This section allows
you to insert files of three different formats:
text (txt), rich text format (rtf), or hyper-text
markup language (html). By allowing these
different file types, biographies on individuals
can be simple or stylized. You are also not
limited to just one file; you can make as many
files as you would like to include.
Notes: The Notes section is where you
store those extra bits of information that don't
seem to fit anywhere else, but are important
enough to keep. When editing an individual's
information, click on the notes button on the
right, represented here in the spot shadow. The
notes window will display, and you can add
information as needed.
Research Log: Research notes can be
extremely helpful to you and others working on the
same areas of genealogy. While doing your
research, leave yourself memos on recent
information you have found, where you have left
off, or anything that will help in the process.
These memos will be helpful for you, others in
your family group, and any others in
OneGreatFamily that are trying to further the
collaborative effort on research for that
person.
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Lisa Lights the Way |
Ellis Island
by Lisa South,
Certified Genealogist
I've read that four out of ten Americans have
an ancestor who came through Ellis Island - that
is a lot of people!! When I think of how difficult
and tedious a search of these records used to be
it is amazing to know that they can now be
searched with a few strokes on a keyboard.
Ellis Island opened in 1892. Before then the
individual states were responsible for immigration
regulations and records. In most cases the
immigrants disembarked right into the cities after
going through customs, provided no contagious
disease was found. With the opening of Ellis
Island, the richer passengers (those that sailed
in first or second class) were usually allowed
directly into the United States after a brief
inspection on board the ship. Only the poor (those
passengers that had sailed in steerage) were
required to go through processing on the island.
The buildings on Ellis were made of pine and on
the 15th of June 1897 a fire burned the buildings
to the ground, destroying most of the records -
records of about one and one-half million
immigrants.
Eventually more than twelve
million immigrants would pass through Ellis
Island. After World War I Congress passed sharp
restrictions on immigration and the activity at
Ellis Island began to decline. Finally, in 1954,
it was closed. It is now open to tourists and has
become a very popular attraction.
As stated above, searching through these
millions of records used to be an almost
impossible task. Thankfully volunteers at The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints keyed
indexes to all those records. Now, in a joint
partnership with the Ellis Island Foundation,
those keyed indexes can be searched electronically
online by going to http://www.ellisisland.org/.
Emma Lazarus wrote:
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled
masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched
refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the
homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp
beside the golden door.
America has done just that, and millions of the
tired and poor, yearning to breathe free came
through Ellis Island!
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