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Fact Finding

What can you learn from a record?

What exactly is a record? Learn how these hard-working tools of research can help you
put together the puzzle of your ancestors’ lives and grow your family tree.

Fact Finding

What can you learn from a record? What exactly is a record? Learn how these hard-working tools of research can help you put together the puzzle of your ancestors’ lives and grow your family tree.

Curiosity Center > Fact Finding

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Using the Ancestry^® Card Catalog to find record collections

1 MIN WATCH

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Amazing facts about the U.S. Census

3 MIN READ

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Why the census is so important in family history

8 MIN READ

DEEPER DIVE

Understanding the value of U.S. Census records

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Understanding the value of U.S. Census records

Discover the meaning and history behind your last name—or another last name you’re curious about.

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Finding your family in the 1920 census

4 MIN READ

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Find your family’s heroes in military records

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What was life like during WWII?

5 MIN READ

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How voter records can reveal new details

DEEPER DIVE

How voter records can reveal new details

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Where should you start with WWII research?

1 MIN WATCH

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Is your family connected to Pearl Harbor?

4 MIN READ

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Find a treasure trove of information about your family in obituaries

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Finding Black history through records

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Finding Black history through records

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How to search in obituary records

1 MIN WATCH

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See your family at their “best” in yearbooks

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How yearbooks can help you learn more about your family

1 MIN WATCH

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Find and honor your WWII ancestors

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Find and honor your WWII ancestors

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Watch the record digitization process (it’s more interesting than you think)

3 MIN WATCH

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What's the most popular surname in your state?

2 MIN READ

DEEPER DIVE

Discovering your story in Jewish family history records

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Things you can find about your family in a census record

5 MIN READ

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Piecing together WWII history

6 MIN READ

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