iHCPL :#69 DATABASE RESEARCHING

Exercise 1: Conduct a search in Ancestry.com or HeritageQuest for historical records concerning somebody in your family. Were you successful? If not, what difficulties did you encounter? How could you improve your search results?

I found me on Ancestry.com in the U.S. Public Records Index! However, my street address was listed as "drive" instead of "street."

Rather than difficulties - I found new tools. We have lost track of some family members whose census information may not be available. Our search for them may be improved by using other available databases such as the U.S. Public Records Index, U.S. Phone Directories. The searches may be refined by using as many previous addresses as we can find. So now we're collecting old addresses and if the homes are still there perhaps we can do title searches, etc. This is a new trail that our family committee has set off on hopefully, with success.