Family History Scavenger Hunt - Day 17

Overview & Purpose

We all love scavenger hunts, hunting for the clues and discovering new things. This scavenger hunt will occur daily during the month of June.

The clues will be posted each evening on the Indian River Genealogy Conference Facebook page (www.facebook.com/IRGConf), Friends of Vero Beach Family History Center Facebook group (www.facebook.com/159642411143167) and the genealogy blog at https://milesgenealogy.blogspot.com/.

The tasks will introduce you to a variety of online sources and help you learn new research sites and how to use them effectively to discover your ancestors. 

Join in the fun, discover new sites, and learn how to research on sites that you may have never used before. 

Answers will be submitted using a Google Form found at https://forms.gle/kJ2vsMcUjqraN9oY6. 

   

Today’s Challenge

We are now on Day #17. I hope you were able to find some useful information yesterday with the Catholic Church records from central Europe (Austria, Germany, Poland and Serbia) from Matricula. Today we will be exploring The Family History Guide (https://www.thefhguide.com/), a training site for family history researchers.

Hint

The Family History Guide (https://www.thefhguide.com/) can be a great resource for any topic you want to learn about in family history. Goals are near the top of each page. Choices are in the text of the pages.

Questions

1. The Family History guide provides instructional lessons on using various genealogy websites. What are the major websites that are included in the lessons?
2. Under the Faiths tab, go to Catholic. In Goal 1, Choice B, #1 provides a link to three strategies for finding Catholic Church records. What are the three strategies?
3. Under the Countries tab select British Isles then Scotland. In Scotland select Goal 8 Maps and Gazetteers then explore the Gazetteers of Scotland link. Who was the publisher of the 1806 Gazetteer of Scotland?
4. On the Countries tab select the United States then select Goal C Census 1: Records. Scroll down the page until you discover the section on mortality schedules and follow the link. What happened to the 1900 mortality schedule?
5. In the US records, select the state of Florida and find the section on Florida Counties at the bottom of the page. Select Indian River County. What is the date that Indian River County was created? 

Bonus Points (Optional)

• Let’s have some fun. Under the Activities tab select Family. Look over the activities listed on this page and do one with your family this week!

Action

Answers will be submitted using a Google Form (https://forms.gle/kJ2vsMcUjqraN9oY6).  I will provide the answers to all who have completed the scavenger hunt by 8:00 pm EST on June 17.  We are out of prizes but I hope that you will continue to participate and invite your friends to join in the fun.

Answers