www.familysearch.org
Learning about the world our ancestors lived in
Sometimes we may not have a lot of genealogical details about a given family in our research. But so often we can still learn alot about the world the lived in - by gathering details about the location where they lived and the time period they lived in.
Here are some ideas:
LOCAL HISTORIES
Look for county and city histories that may tell the history of where your ancestors lived.
FamilySearch Catalog can be a great source for this. Or Google Books
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog
or Google Books
(modify the query for a specific location)
you can also search on family surname histories
Events by Year/Day
https://www.onthisday.com/events-by-year.php
Year by Year Events
https://www.brainyhistory.com/years.html
Timeline of Historic Inventions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_historic_inventions
Timeline of Literary Works
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_years_in_literature
Timeline of Scientific Discoveries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_scientific_discoveries
Wars By Year
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States
World Events
https://beckchris.wordpress.com/history/the-55-most-important-events-in-human-history/
Old Newspaper Articles
Here is an example of articles about members of the Yancey Family
https://www.newspapers.com/clippings/#query=yancey+died
(you can change the query to meet your own research needs)
Dress and Fashion
https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/category/17th-century/
Popular Post Cards
See what historical Post Cards are available for the city or county your ancestors lived in.
Google can be a great way of looking for such postcards
@Yancey/Yancy Family Genealogy
@How Things Work
@Ancestor Treasures
@United States Genealogy Research
@Tips para Historia Familiar
@Shirley Family Genealogy
@Nanney Family Genealogy
@Ansley Family Genealogy
@Kendall One-Name Study & DNA Project
@Justiss/Justice Family Genealogy
@Nuckolls Family Genealogy
@African American Genealogy Research
Comments
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Is there a way to search the catalog for a specific name or phrase by using “” .... it seems to work for everything else on the planet but I can’t seem to get it to work for the catalog search?
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as far as I can tell - at least on the catalog search - the use of quotes to force a "phrase search" does not work (and I don't think it was ever designed to work that way)
if you do type in multiple words - it does appear to at least look for all of them to be in the result - but it doesn't look for them in any specific phrase order.
Unfortunately across FamilySearch - different search pages work differently- it would be nice if there was more consistency across the board - and that things that are very common in search engines like Google would work the same here.
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