INTERNET Family History Scavenger Hunt This scavenger hunt will give you a small glimpse of how to use the internet for Family History. Good luck!! Have Fun!! You can do this at home, or if you want to do it as a family, youth group, go to your Family History Center. Before you start, you need your confirmation date and membership record number. Ask your Ward Clerk for a printout of your membership record if you don t have it. Also, pick a great or great great grandparent to see what information you can find. First, go to www.familysearch.org. Click on Sign On in the upper right hand corner. In the last sentence of the first paragraph, click on If you are a new user, click here to Register. Fill out the registration form, write your User Name and Password below. You need your confirmation date and membership number ask your Ward Clerk for a printout. User Name Password (Now you can sign-on anytime at home.) Make sure you are signed on in the top right hand corner before you continue. Click on Search for Ancestors, above the picture. In the left hand column click on International Genealogical Index. This is where you can see if an ancestor has their ordinance work done. Type in the name, Hulda Engel. Under Region, select Continental Europe. Under the Country, select Switzerland. Press the Search button. Hulda was born 1895 in Zurich Switzerland. Click on the correct Hulda and fill in the following information. 1. Baptism date Endowment date Temple Now search for one of your ancestors. Use the back button to go back to the search screen. Type in your ancestors name and at least the region. If you know the birth date, type that in too. Name Baptism date Click on Search for Ancestors on the blue bar at the top. Click on Ancestral file in the left hand column. Type in Hulda Engel and select Switzerland under the Country. Click the Search button. 2. How many Ancestral Files are there for Hulda?
Click on Hulda s name and then click on Pedigree in the top right hand corner of the screen. Look at all the ancestors!!! Now look at the upper left hand corner of the screen. The words Download GEDCOM indicate that if this was a file of your ancestors, you could download it to your computer and open it in PAF (Personal Ancestral File) database. So now go back to the Search screen and type in your ancestors name and see if there is an Ancestral File. Try your great grandparents first if you know their names, or type in your grandparents names. (Remember to type the woman s maiden name.) Name of ancestor How many files? Go back to the Search for Ancestors screen and select US Social Security Death Index in the left hand column. Type in the name Hulda Bergquist and select the state of Utah. Hit the search button. 3. What is her death date? Social Security Number Go back to the search screen and type in your ancestors name. Ancestor Death date Social Security Number Go back to the Search for Ancestors screen and select Census in the left hand column. Under Census, select 1880 United States Census. Type the following: John Pope, Birthplace - United States, State - Georgia, Birth year 1844 Hit the search button. Click on John Pope to see all the information on him. You should be at his Individual Record. To see his family, click Household on the right hand side of the screen. 4. How many sons are there? How many daughters? What is John s occupation? To see who John s neighbors are, click on Next Household on the right. What is their last name? Go back and try this on one of your ancestors who was born before 1880 or type in the name Charles Giles, Birthplace United States Iowa 1858 and hit the search button. Your Ancestor What state is he/she living in? Charles Giles At the bottom of the Individual screen where is living? 5.
Go to www.ellisisland.org Type in Hulda Engel and click Start Search. A page will come up, scroll to the bottom and click on Hulda Engel. You will come to a Sign-in page. Click on Are You New to this Site? Fill out the required fields and push Submit. Write you User Name and Password below. User Name Password (Now you can go back to this site anytime.) You should now be at the Passenger Record for Hulda Engel. If not do a Passenger Search for her again. 6. What was her arrival date? Name of Ship Age Click on Ship on the left side of the screen. Who built the ship and in what year? 7. Now click on Original Ship Manifest on the left side of the screen. Click on the spy glass to enlarge the picture. This is the second page of the record. She is on line 22. She is going to her brother, Henry Engels home in New York. Go all the way across the page to the right hand side, she was born in Zurich, Switzerland. 8. How tall is she? What is her hair color Eye color Search for your ancestor. Write down what you found. If you did not find anything, try a different ancestor. To be in this record, they would have come to the United States between 1892 and 1924. Go to www.ancestry.com do this at your Family History Center at BYU or in SLC. (Sometimes you can try this site free for two weeks.) Type in Hulda Bergquist and select United States under the Country, Utah for the State. Click the search button. Click on the Birth, Marriage, and Death Records. Click on Utah Cemetery. Remember she was born in 1895 in Switzerland. 9. What cemetery is she buried in? What is her grave location?
What is her burial date? What is her death date according to the cemetery record? What is her death date according to the Social Security Index? Which one do you think is right? Click the Search Records tab at the top of the page. Type in Aaron Underwood. Select United States under Country and Florida under State/Province/County. Click the Search button. (Aaron is Cody and Dustin s great great great great grandfather.) Click on Census Records. Click on 1860 United States Census. Click on View Image. Scroll down on the right hand side of the page until you find Aaron Underwood on the page. 10. How old was he in 1860? Calculate the year he was born. Where was he born? Sometimes this is the best estimation when it is almost impossible to find a birth date. This is enough information to do his temple work. Go Back to search results screen click on 1850 United States Census. Click on View Image. Find Aaron Underwood. Who is listed under Aaron and Sarah? 11. Go Back and Search for your ancestor. What did you find? Way to Go! You made it to the end. Remember Sunday is a great day for Family History. Make a goal to take your own ancestors to the temple to do ordinances for them. Mark E. Peterson once said that if we are not taking our own ancestors names when we attend the temple, we are only doing half our part in this great work. Each member of the church is responsible for their ancestors. Carol Hill, BA Family History carol_h77@yahoo.com - carol_h77
Answer Key 1. Baptism 28 Oct 1905, Endowment date 7 Sep 1932, Temple Salt Lake 2. 1 Ancestral File 3. She died 2 May 1997, SSN 556-07-6252 4. 3 sons, 4 daughters, John s occupation is Farmer. John s neighbor is Hinson. 5. Charles Giles is living in the Colorado State Penitentiary 6. She arrived April 17, 1920 on the ship Rochembeau at age 25. 7. Shantierde Penhoet built the ship in 1911 8. She is 5 5 tall, Brown hair and Blue eyes. 9. She is buried in SLC, grave location L-38-18-5-E, burial date is 6 May 1997, her death date is 5 Feb 1997 according to the cemetery record. Her death date according to SSN is 2 May 1997. Social Security number is more correct. 10. Aaron is 75 years old. He was born about 1785 in North Carolina. 11. George W. Underwood is living next door. His son.