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From: "Larry S. Wilcox" <>
Subject: Re: [VanArsdale-L] Cornelius Van
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 08:08:16 -0500


Genaealogy is the Study of Ancestry of a Family Linage: The Tracking of Your
Ancestors; To accomplish this Research Project, certain Rules of the Road are
followed:

VARIOUS TOOLS OF GENEALOGY RESEARCH:

Step 1: Gathering of your Linage Line Data:
Birth Certificates:
Death Certificates:
Marriage Licences:
Family Bibles:
Family Letters:
Diaries:
Account Books:
Tombstones:
Obiyuries:
Etc:

Step 2: Charting the Information that you have Gathered:
Local Libraries have Charts on Linage Lines.
I use LDS Charts as they are some of the Better Charts.

Step 3: Charting the Missing Gaps:
Use all Methods to fill missing Gaps in your Records: 3 References for Material
being Researched is Good. I Use 5.

Step 4: When You run out of Offical Records; Use Historical Records.
Check with Libraries for Local Club Records: Example Lodges & Garden Clubs Etc.

Step 5: VISIT Your Library: If Your Library has a Genelogical Department; Learn
to use this Resource.

Copied Book Materials: Write Down OR Copy:
Title Page:
Author:
Publisher:
Date of Publication:
Key: Page Number:

Photocoping:
Copy Cover Page:
Page of Linage Data:

Step 6: Learn Key Glossary Keys or Words:
mac................Scotland M;................Marriage
ap..................Wales dau...............Daughter
ben................Hebrew B:..................Born:
bint................Arabic D:...................Died:
tez..................Spain A.D.................After Christ
Son................Norse B.C.................Before Christ
Dottr..............Norse + or *..............Foot Note
Fitz.................France Bastard............Legal/Other
Gauls..............France de....................Norman of Orgin
Frankland.......France le....................French of Orgin

Step 7: Census
Located in Most Genealogical Libraries:
1790 to 1910
1920 Last on Micro fish
1930 to be Released June 1999

National Archives & Records Administration
Room G 9
7th Street & Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C.
20408

Micro Film can be Rented Directly from:
National Archives Census Micro Film Rental Program
P.O. Box 30
Annapolis, Maryland
20701
1-301-604-3699

Libraries for Linage Research:

New York Public Library:
Contains Eastern Sea Board; Dutch New Amesterdam; New Jersey Pioneers.

Fort Wayne, Indiana Library:
Contains Linage Data on 9,000 + Linage Surnames; Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana,.

Kern Library Norfork, Virginia:
Jamestowne Colony Records; Williamsburg House of Burgesses Records, Ancient
Virginia Planters, Ohio Records, Kentucky Records, North Carlonia Records.

Los Angles City Library:
Contains Surnames Data on 89,000 Linages, Western Pioneers.

Step 7: Do's & Don't of Linage Research:
1. Do Assume
2. Don't Lie to make it look good
3. Year Dates: Just use the Year Date
4. Family Bibles: It is only a Written Record: Have it Certified.
5. Surname Spelling: Do not get caught up in Spelling: A Surname is a Surname.

Tracking Your Ancestor:
1. Use LDS Records as a last Effort to find your Ancestor: LDS Records are full
of Errors.
2. Passanger & Naturalization Records: Many Records Difficult to follow.
3. Arrange Your Ancestors History by State & Orgin to US. This will give you a
working Guide to track your Linage from Start to Finish to You.
4. Arrange Your Genealogy so that you may understand it Better. Find a Key in
?Your Research that will Suit Your Interest.
5. Learn the Guide to Welsh & English Historical Records.
6. Learn how to use the National Archives.
7. Guide Book to American Genealogy for those who are just starting out in
Family Genealogy
8. Learn How to use Micro Film. What a Pain.
9. Yale University Has "A Guide to Archives & Manuscriopts In the US" .
10. American Library in Chicago Publishes" The Genealogists HandBook"
11. Periodical Sources: Located Fort Wayne Library Fort Wayne, Indiana "1847 to
1985"

This list is not to IMPRESS YOU, But To Inform You All, That I Have Been Ther &
Spent My Time Researching in the Major Libraries of the United States. I am and
always have been a Linage Line Data Research. I Collect Surname Linage; Pass it
on to another Individual Who is more of a Professional Genealogists than
myself.

My Van Odol/Van Arsdale/ Van Arsdallen Linage Line was completed in 1938,
Updated 1956. Updated 1970, Updated 1990, Update 1997, Updated 1998.

I am a Member of Several Watch Dog Groups of Linage Line Researcher. I have
sent in hundreds of Corrections to Genealogy Researchers, I make Remarks to
Encourage, a Researcher, not to Hinder them. I have NEVER let my Personal
Feeling get in the way of Research. We all are intitled to Research Our
Linage Line as best as we can with the amount of Energy & Efforts That Each of
Us wants to put in a Project. I am Retired & Spend 8 to 10 Hours a Day at my
Computer doing Linage Line Research. My Goal Is To Give away all the Knowledge,
That I have Learn in Research To Others. Yesterday I Learned that I was a Pain
in the ASS & Didn't Know anything about the Van Arsdale Linage Line.

When an Author Writes or Quotes; His or her Version of What they are Writting;
Look at the Text & Content of that Material. You May Agree Or Disagree, But let
Other have the Same Option, Do Not Voice an opinion. Your Opinion takes away
the Process of Learning. Just State That In Book So in so Such Was Written.

Last Point of a Good Research Method:
Tracking Chart: 1st up Date use a Red pen on Work Sheets: Work Sheets can be
modified for several uses by using various colored pens.

I would like a Response. Larry

MRS BARBARA J JOHNSON wrote:

> Larry, I have found "suspect" and "Assume" to be just as accurate as
> "certified" information sent to me, and will continue to preface anything I
> say or write with such remarks. For instance, I have a "certified" birth
> certificate for my mother, but it is absolutely incorrect and proven to be
> so. How can I prove it's wrong amd why did I even suspect it was wrong?
> Easy, I went to the original source, the books in the health department.
> Guess what, they had the original in plastic covering, over which my mother
> (her handwriting) had changed the maiden name of her mother. I wanted a
> copy of it but was told it was too delicate to copy. I went back armed
> with a camera and was shown another birth cerficate without that forgery.
> What happened? The clerk of the health department had been in charge when
> my mother performed that forgery and was responsible, so she conveniently
> let that one disappear and found another, with the erronious information
> and declared it certified. Through a very fortunate set of circumstances,
> I was able to find absolute proof of the maiden name of my grandmother, but
> in the meantime I had received a mailed "certified" birth certificate
> naming the wrong person as my grandmother. I have also received erronious
> "certified" certificates on a great grandmother and one for my own son! As
> his mother, nobody can be more certain of his parentage than I am, yet our
> descendants would have been sent down the wrong path with no preface to
> state that it was assummed or suspected.
> I wrote that info on the premiss that no decent family historian would
> take my word, or the word of the book, that the info was correct without
> assessing the primary source. For some, the location of Augusta Co. would
> not even be considered...and I'm one of those. I think that Cornelius may
> be my ancestor and had never given thought to Augusta Co. It's merely
> another place I can try to locate the primary source. As for noting the
> name of the books, etc., I did that. The page that info was on was stapled
> to the other pages I had copied, but since I didn't really label it
> separately, I felt it necessary to preface the info that I suspected it was
> Augusta Co.
> I'm am an experienced genealogist, not a novice, but I don't take this as
> an exact science because nobody but a mother knows who a father of her
> child is, and because so many human errors are made in transcription. I
> don't know of any family historian who has the time or money to travel to
> all of the original sources to make their own interpretations of the info
> available, nor do I know of any who have never made an error in their own
> notes or interpretations. I also don't know of any who have never wasted
> time and in doing so, have gained even more knowledge. In perusing the
> pages I copied from those books simply for the Van names, I have found
> several other family lines that I hadn't suspected to be in that area and
> will now follow up on those. I have been a Van researcher for about 20
> yrs., so you do have a few years on me, but I'm not far behind. I take
> anything I find in published material with a grain of salt. That's really
> all it's worth. Barbara Vanasdal Johnson
>
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