
These sources are used to supplement other materials. (4) Low: Crowd sourced, mostly items taken from Wikipedia.

Footnotes may be present, but not sufficient. (3) Normal: Family histories and local histories, where the author(s) draws on personal, family, or local knowledge. (2) High: Research with appropriate footnotes, including but not limited to principal secondary genealogical research such as Weiss et al.'s Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists (8th ed., 2004), Cawley's Medieval Lands, and Cockayne's Complete Peerage. (1) Very high: Primary sources, such as birth certifications, marriage registrations, death certificates, census records, newspaper accounts, family Bibles, and transcripts and indexes summarizing official records. (Good sources can have erroneous information, and poor quality sources can have good pieces of information.) These codes are in transition in the files, but here is what I am moving toward: My ratings are for the quality of the source overall, not the specific pieces of information. The data sets include the ability to rate citations by confidence in their accuracy. The Ancestry of Thomas Dudley of Massachusetts The Ancestry of Vern Elijah Rogers and Celia Frances Crump Part II is what is collected to date regarding the ancestry of Thomas Dudley (Generation #11)-the Dudley ancestry traces back to several royal and noble families in medieval Europe.

Part I deals primarily American ancestors, though a few lines reach into England. This project is divided into two files because of its size, and even split, these files may take a while to download.
Gramps import gedcom software#
You will need a genealogical software package to open them, and I have provided recommendations to two free packages below. The files below are working drafts of my family history projects. GEDCOM file are a special type of file used in the creation of genealogical data bases.
