The Riverton FamilySearch center is posted a timely tip of the week about the type of information we may find about our family in census records, christening records, and newspapers.
Tip of the Week
Use Census Records, Christening Records, and Newspaper Articles to find family.
Many people search census records of the United States to find their family and
completely pass up other family members who may be neighbors to their parents
or a close relative.
1. Census Records: When checking U.S. census records for family, find the
person you are looking for and then see who the neighbors are. The
neighbors could be children or siblings of the direct line of family you are
looking for. This also can be done with the 1790-1840 census records
where only the head of household is listed.
2. The 1900 and 1910 census can be used to see how many children a
woman had and how many of the children were still living. To find
children who were not living, you could check the “Find a Grave” or “Billion
Graves” websites where you know relatives were buried to find other
relatives. Also check cemeteries in the area to find family members of
the same name.
3. The British census for 1911 also lists how many children a woman had and how
many were living like the 1900 and 1910 census of the U. S. There are
people who might have married when the woman was 40 and you think she didn’t
have any children. If she was alive from 1900 to 1910 for the U. S. or
1911 for England check to see if she had any children. My second great
grandfather’s sister had one daughter when she was 41 and the daughter
died. It is always best to check and not let the child fall through the
cracks.
4. Christening Records: When checking christening records for other countries it
is always best to check the christening record to see if the child was named
and then check the burial record to see if the child had died. My second
great grandfather had a brother who had six children that lived two weeks but
were never named. I found a mention of the child in the christening and
the burial records.
5. Newspaper Articles: Sometimes you may find a record of a child when you least
expect it. My husband put the names of his great grandparents on
Newspapers.com to find them in the Detroit, Michigan area. He found an
article about a young son named Marion Heathcote Mann. The given name was
after his great grandfather and the middle name was a family surname.
There was no birth or death record listed.
6. You can often find family information where
you least expect it. From County Histories to State Histories, from
newspapers to military records. Always pray about where you might find
the information and then go to work searching!
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