LEH 354 The Family Jewels: Exploring Your History: Home

This guide will help you recognize sources for work on your family history project.

It will also give tips on conducting oral history interviews and saving family records.

   HOME

• Letters and Diaries
• Interviews--family, relatives, neighbors, friends
• Photographs- albums, digital files
• School Records, Certificates. Programs
• Keepsakes, heirlooms, etc.

   HISTORICAL SOCIETY or LIBRARY

• Maps and Atlases
• Books--local history, biographical sketches
• Newspapers--obituaries; birth, marriage announcements
• Oral memoirs
• Photos or prints
• Directories--phone, business, organizational

   TOWN AND COUNTY RECORDS

• Cemetery Records--tombstone transcriptions
• Deeds, Mortgages
• Naturalization Records
• Business ncorporation
• Wills and Affadavits
• Tax lists
• Vital Records --birth, marriage, death
• Naturalization records

   STATE RECORDS

• Land grants
• Militia records
• State Census
• Tax Lists

   NATIONAL

• Census records
• Immigrartion records
• Military Record
• Mortality schedules
• Passenger lists
• Pension records