It was great to see so many of our members at Saturday's workshop. I hope everyone came away with some new information to help in their research. Listed below are a few bits and pieces that I found interesting from classes I attended.
*Family Search has a link to WorldCat on the catalog page. "WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information." This would be another way to search for family histories, county histories, etc.
*If you have "lost" a family in the census (you know they lived in the same place in 1860 and 1880), you might try looking for just the first names of all family members in 1870. Census takers might have just used "Smith" if the surname was difficult to spell or pronounce! You would need to read the census page by page in your specific area to find them this way.
*The Family Search Wiki has hyperlinks to sites with searchable information. You might find this when looking up a state or country.
*One suggestion for more efficient searches on Ancestry: use the card catalog first to determine if any records exist on Ancestry for the location you need.
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