Genealogy Fair: April 20 and 21, 2011

Become Your Family’s Detective

April 20 & 21, 2011

National Archives Research Center,
Lobby and Pennsylvania Avenue Plaza,
Washington, DC (Enter on Pennsylvania Avenue)

Lecture Handouts

This two-day program showcases the Federal records located at the National Archives as resources for family history research.

Below are copies of the presenters' handouts. We encourage attendees to download and print handouts for the sessions they plan to attend and bring them to the fair.

(Unless otherwise noted, documents below are in PDF format.)

NARA Staff
1940 Census

• 1940 Census Research
• 1940 Census Questions
• 1940 Census Form Template
• 1940 Census Symbols

Gordon Atkinson
Everything You Wanted to Know About Footnote.com

Quinton Atkinson
www.Ancestry.com

Claire Bettag
Federal Land Records

Daniel Carpenter
Exploring Our Ancestors' History with Petitions

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Exploring Our Ancestors History with Petitions

Elizabeth Carrington
Alien Files (A-Files)

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A-Files - Sample Alien Registration Form

• 2011 Genealogy Fair
• Sample Alien Registration Form

Patrick Connelly

• Court Records
• Customs Records

Rebecca Crawford
Introduction to Researching Federal Employees at National Archives

• 506-Civilian Personnel Records St Louis
• 507-Using the ’Official Register of the United States’ to Research Federal Employees, 1816–1959
• St. Louis-Using the ’Official Register of the United States’ to Research Federal Employees, 1816–1959

Damani Davis
Black Patriots and Loyalists: Finding African American Ancestors from the Revolutionary War

• Regular and Volunteer United States Military Service Between the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812
• Bounty-Land Warrants for Military Service, 1775–1855
• Pension Records for Service in the United States Navy, 1776–1910
• Pensions for Service in the Regular Army, 1775–1912
• Revolutionary War Service, 1775–1783
• Enumeration of Revolutionary War and Civil War Veterans and Pensioners in the Federal Census (1840, 1890, 1910 and 1930)

John Deeben
Introduction to Genealogy

Army Service in the Civil War-An Overview

• 921_Galvanized Yankees
• 923_USCT
• 941_Confederate Service
• 942_Civil War Union and Confederate CMSRs

Jennifer Dondero
Citing Sources:  Why & How

Jake Ersland
Civil War Provost Marshal Records

• Civil War Provost Marshal Records Presentation
• Civil War Provost Marshall Records Handout

Leavenworth Prison Records by Jake Ersland

• United States Penitentiary-Leavenworth Inmate Case Files Handout
• Leavenworth Presentation

Jeffery Hartley
Using the Congressional Serial Set for Genealogical Research

Carla Peterson
Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City

Carol Kostakos Petranek
FamilySearch—Vision to Reality

Claire Prechtel-Kluskens

• Headstone Records for U.S. Military Veterans (1879–1985)(revised February 2019)
   
• Agricultural Extension Service Annual Reports (1909–68)
  • NGS Magazine Article
  • Annual Report(March 2020 edition)

Seibert, Bill
Individual Service Records–Military and Civil
Individual Service Records
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Katherine Vollen
Introduction to Genealogy

Reginald Washington
Researching the Records of the Freedmen's Bureau

Zack Wilske
INS Policy, Correspondence, and Case Files (1906–57)