Christopher Garry

Genealogy

study of pedigree the study of the ancestry and descent of a

person the history that goes with this.

Genealogy

Family stories or mysteries

How does it start?

Medical inquiry

How does it start?

Adoption investigation

How does it start?

Searching for relations

How does it start?

Getting information from knowledgeable relativesQuery lettersOral interviews (notes or record)Thanks

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You are the first knowledgeable relativeBe specific in questionsAnnotateGather or copy everythingUse care:

FragileSentimental value privacy

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Recording information

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Use online databases, and of course, the Google

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Collect BMDs

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Collect BMD Birth, Marriage, Death

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Combat Vehicle of the Airborne?!?

Collect other records such as census records, probate records, church records, and military records.

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school ResidenceTravelEmigration / ImmigrationvotingMilitary Servicebuying and selling land and/or personal propertyjoining and participating in the spiritual rites of

various religionspaying taxes…

Be creative

Communicate with other researchers

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Developing self-worthBreaking down stereo-typesClarifying heritageOrigins of MotivationsPosterity

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Developing self-worthBreaking down stereo-typesClarifying heritageOrigins of MotivationsPosterity

…being evil

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Adjust, accommodate, adapt, empathize and imagine

Make connections

It’s about people

1 Aug 1821 Born - Savannah (Georgia) Abt 1835: Joined his half-brother Hamlin V. SNELL at St.

Marks, Florida, and worked in fishing industry. 1837?: Went to school in Tallahassee. 1839: Served in the Indian War. 1842: Went to Sarasota Bay. 1844: Started a business selling dried fish with Joseph

WOODRUFF. 26 May 1845: Voted (#6) in the first statewide election.

Election Clerk at Precinct #5 (Sarasota, FL) 10 Jun 1851: Married Mary Jane WYATT Sep 1851: Received deed for homestead. Jun 1852: First child born: Nancy Catherine Stewart. 1852-55?: Served as a Captain of volunteers in the last

Seminole Indian War. 9 Jan 1855: Owned 193 acres of the frontage on

Sarasota Bay. 4 Mar 1856: Third child born: Furman Chaires

Go deepHow would

you summarize all the remarkable things in your life to one slide?

1619 The first black slaves in North America arrived in Virginia. 1700 Author Samuel Sewall wrote "The Selling of Joseph" as the first American

protest against slavery. 1778 An Act of Congress prohibited the import of slaves into the U.S. 1787 The United States Constitution was approved. Slaves had no rights as

citizens, and were counted as three-fifths of a person. 1861 (April 12) - The Civil War began. Slavery was a major cause of the fighting

between the North and South. 1865 (March 3) - The Union Congress created the Freedmen’s Bureau to assist

freed slaves. 1865 (December 6) - The Thirteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was

passed, abolishing slavery. 1870 The Fifteenth Amendment was passed. All citizens, regardless of race or

gender were given equal protection of the law. 1896 "Separate but equal" facilities for blacks and whites were declared

constitutional by the Supreme Court in the Plessy vs. Ferguson case. 1909 The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

was founded. Blacks and whites joined together to legally try to eliminate segregation.

1954 Supreme Court declared that segregation of the races is unconstitutional in Brown vs. Topeka case.

1955 Rosa Parks, a black woman, sparked the civil rights movement in the South when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man and was arrested.

1963 250,000 people attended a civil rights rally in Washington D.C., where they heard Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s "I Have a Dream" speech.

1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed by Congress, and declared that discrimination on the basis or race, sex, religion, or national origin was unlawful.

1989 L. Douglas Wilder was elected Governor of Virginia. He was the first African American to be elected a governor in the United States.

ContextualizeTake time to

think about how the facts fit

Connectedness

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