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Sylvester Rawding family in front of sod house, north of Sargent, Custer County, Nebraska (1886). Photograph by Solomon D. Butcher. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald's fan chart with her ancestors named in it: she had nine children, the first at 25 and the last at 41, and lived to 104.Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald's fan chart with her ancestors named in it: she had nine children, the first at 25 and the last at 41, and lived to 104.

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    The first screen for the Kennedy family: each name typed in its place on the tree, the years and where each was found.The first screen for the Kennedy family: each name typed in its place on the tree, the years and where each was found.

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    Your parents and grandparents first, then further back. Every empty place is someone still to find.

    The first page for the Kennedy family's file: 208 people in 75 families, and a fan chart four generations back.The first page for the Kennedy family's file: 208 people in 75 families, and a fan chart four generations back.

  3. Get to know one life, from its records

    Pick anyone and their life is in front of you, in order, with where each fact came from.

    Patrick Kennedy's life on a map, Boston, 1847 to 1858: he died at about 35, leaving four children under 8.Patrick Kennedy's life on a map, Boston, 1847 to 1858: he died at about 35, leaving four children under 8.Patrick Kennedy's life on a map, Boston, 1847 to 1858: he died at about 35, leaving four children under 8.Patrick Kennedy's life on a map, Boston, 1847 to 1858: he died at about 35, leaving four children under 8.

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    Where everyone was born, decade by decade, and what was happening there.

    A page of the 1910 U.S. census: Pennsylvania: ALLEGHENY County, Enumeration District 632, Sheet No. 13A (1910). National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Bureau of the Census (Record Group 29), catalog record 91307060. Image provided by Fold3.

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