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Genealogy Report (20%)
As an exercise in practical data collection and historical immigration politics, students will create a genealogical family tree spanning 5 generations to identify the migration patterns of their ancestors during class time. Students will write a 3-page paper outside of class that explains their family’s migration story to and/or within the United States in detail. Students should use interviews, newspapers, genealogy websites, obituaries etc. to create their migration story and document their data in a bibliography.
Paper Prompt:
Presentation and Submission:
The following list of resources has been complied to assist you with the first research assignment in Dr. Silva's sections of PSCI 3100: Immigration Politics.
Many genealogy resources are fee based; some are available through Libraries and others available through private subscriptions. Examples of these are Ancestry.com and Fold3.com. These sometimes offer free trials and are really robust sites.
TOP RESOURCES FOR GENEALOGY RESEARCH
Ancestry Library Edition is an institutional subscription version of the normal fee-based site and is publicly accessible for free on-site at UNT Libraries. It includes international record collections as well U.S. records making it especially useful for world-wide research. Records of interest can be emailed to you through the use of the Send My Discovery Home function listed on the right side of the screen for all records. It will send you one email with a link to your discovery page on Ancestry with a link to the records you saved while using Ancestry Library Edition. Please note that this collection may be more limited than the fee-based contents in Ancestry.com.
Family Search
This is the free site from the Mormon Church though it requires an account. It contains the Census enumeration forms and works to help make connections between individuals. Records can be browsed by country.
You can also visit a Family History Center or FamilySearch Affiliate Libraries.
Denton Texas Family History Center
3000 Old North Road
DENTON Texas 76209-6250
502 Oakland St
DENTON Texas
Find-a-Grave helps to locate death records.
Genealogy Research Guides
Genealogy Resources
It is highly recommended that you visit this page developed by Robbie Sittel, head of the UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.
Genealogy Resources
Denton Public Library has additional resources that you can use to conduct local, state, and national genealogy research. This site include search tips, guides, and databases.
UNT Databases
This database provides images of U.S. Census records from 1790-1940 with some years searchable by name, Revolutionary War pension and bounty land files, U.S. Indian census rolls, Freedmens Bank records, some city directories, and supplements to the census such as mortality and slave schedules.
This database provides access to a variety of Spanish and English language Hispanic/Latino-American newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries.
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This site provides access to the archives of a variety of newspapers from across the U.S.
Additional Websites for Genealogy Resources
American Ancestors
This resource explores family history from the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
Fold3 Library Edition
This resource searches U.S. military records.
Historygeo
This is a collection of original landowner maps, historical maps, and atlases.
Local News Index
This index searches for local news stories from the Denton Record-Chronicle compiled by Denton Public Library staff.
Newspaper Archives
The archive provides access to more than 3,000 newspapers including the Denton Record-Chronicle, issues from 1909 to 1977. Every newspaper in the archive is fully searchable by keyword and date, making it easy for you to quickly explore historical content.
Portal to Texas History
This database provides access to digital scans of the Denton Public Library's Historical Photo Collection.
This Wiki is probably the best one-stop place for non-European genealogy.
UNT has the 2000 edition and Denton Public has the 2017 edition. If a student is having trouble finding info on where to seek records for their home country, contact Brea Henson and she will get you in touch with the genealogy librarian at DPL.
Research by Country
This might be help to some students but, beware that there are broken hyperlinks occasionally.
*Genealogy Resources on this page were provided by Government Documents Librarian Robbie Sittel and Denton Public Library.