PEDIGREES FROM THE PAST
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The Library of Congress offers free downloads of old family registers in its collection.

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These forms were used to record important events in Bibles. Many different designs were sold between 1850 and 1895, and several of the charts are elaborate lithographs from the printing firm of Currier & Ives. If you’d like to record one of your 19th-century families on a register that the family might actually have used, download the register of your choice at  http://www.loc.gov/search/?q=Family+Records+and+Registers.

RESEARCH TIP: The Library of Congress is a marvelous resource for genealogists. Quoting from the LOC website at http://www.loc.gov/discover/, you can “access online collections, view maps, and find photographs; read letters, diaries and [old] newspapers; hear personal accounts of events, listen to sound recordings, watch historic films,” and learn something new abut the United States every day on the library’s “Today in History” page at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html.