ßOnce you enter the name, just click on the search button. ßIf the name is common, pick a state to limit the results to a manageable number. Ancestry.com.

Once you enter the name, just click on the search button.

If the name is common, pick a state to limit the results to a manageable number.

Ancestry.com Ancestry.com is a fee-based service with thousands of databases. Cost can be as low as $5 per month. You just enter the name of the ancestor you want to look for in

the boxes as shown below, right. I entered Daniel Corley.

Shown here are numerous databases in which a Daniel Corley is found.

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With this family, we find useful info in Ancestry World Tree and census records

There are many other categories that could have been successful.

Click on Ancestry World Tree (see red arrow above).

Shown here are three of the 27 results. Notice George K. CORLEY and Mary Kuykendall in the parents column. I click on their names.

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Now I see the information about George K. Corley. It shows parents as D.S. CORLEY and Susan. This is my family!

Now I click on “download original file” to see who sent it in.

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Ancestry.com shows me the email address of the person who sent the information in.

It gives me the opportunity to download their submission in GEDCOM format (68000 names!).

Now I send an email to the person shown asking to share info.

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Now I go back and see what Ancestry shows for census records. It shows 13 entries for US census records 1790 to 1880 (indexes

all states, almost all census years). I am most interested in the entries for Texas, so I click on it.

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This is one of the databases that requires you to pay a fee. Pay your fee, and you have unlimited access to all their databases.

Cost can be as low as $5 per month. I enter my username and password, and click on Login.

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I now find out that Daniel S. CORLEY was in the 1880 census in Johnson county, TX on page 211. He was not in the Soundex because he didn’t have young children living at home. I now need to go to a Family History Center to view the census record.

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Now I go back to the start and select PERSI search.

PERSI searches through nearly all English language genealogy periodicals and newsletters published since 1800.

I enter CORLEY and Texas (I could try Tennessee and Arkansas, too) and then click on Search.

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Among the articles mentioned are three that appear promising. Susan Karnes Corley 1889 deposition is so interesting, I click on the article title (see red arrow) to

see more about it.

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PERSI at Ancestry gives me information about the magazine and what libraries have copies, but does not have the article itself.

I need to visit on the libraries shown, or order a copy of the article by mail.

Note the Family History Library is shown.

The article referenced was written by Susan CORLEY in 1889 and lists all her family with birth dates, spouses’ names, and much more.

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Ancestry.com not only gave me some excellent information, it pointed me to other places that I could get more information (the census, some magazine articles, etc.)

Remember, Ancestry.com is not a totally free service. It’s located at www.ancestry.com/

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