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Dennis J Yancey
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December 19, 2020 edited August 15, 2024 in Search
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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

https://www.google.com/search?q=county+history&sxsrf=ALeKk02UHktgCuh0IDNMkcSVQdkryHKWnQ:1608410756772&source=lnms&tbm=bks&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjHpr3-9NrtAhWrp1kKHfwpCl4Q_AUoAXoECAkQCw&biw=2227&bih=1071

(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

example: https://www.google.com/search?q=bingham+county+idaho+postcards&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS813US813&sxsrf=ALeKk03Rxi3mxJbFPA9mNc42z4Jae4HHpg:1608410647153&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiY2JrK9NrtAhVuzlkKHWF9B8AQ_AUoAnoECAkQBA&biw=2227&bih=1071

 

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  • X24 MOM
    X24 MOM ✭✭✭
    December 19, 2020

    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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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    December 19, 2020

    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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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    December 19, 2020

    I forgot to add - Music by the year and decade

     

    http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/music.html

     

     

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