Exhibitor Profile-Center for Family History and Genealogy at BYU

Booth #712

The Center for Family History and Genealogy at Brigham Young University provides excellent learning opportunities for our family history majors. Over 40 students are employed at the Center each semester, and their research produces online genealogical databases that are available free of charge to researchers worldwide.

The Immigrant Ancestors Project uses European emigration registers to locate information about the birthplaces of immigrants in their native countries, which is not found in the port registers and naturalization documents in the destination countries. Volunteers working with scholars at Brigham Young University (BYU) are creating a database of millions of immigrants based on these emigration registers at http://immigrants.byu.edu.

The Merrell English Marriage Index is a correlation of the information that Bertram Merrell painstakingly transcribed during his numerous visits to the Cheshire Record Office in Chester, England. Data was extracted from marriage licenses, allegations, or bonds and cross-referenced with the Church of England’s parish registers or Bishop’s transcripts. When searching this database for a marriage in Chester, the user receives information from both collections. Go to http://englishmarriages.byu.edu

The Script Tutorials offer guidance in deciphering manuscripts and other documents printed in old typefaces or written in old handwriting styles. Languages covered here include English, German, Dutch, Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. The content of this website is useful to students and researchers for genealogical, historical, and literary research. Go to http://script.byu.edu

Come to booth #712 to visit with the students and learn about these projects and several more.

See you at the conference!

Exhibitor Profile-Center for Family History and Genealogy at BYU