Bridging the Gap: Finding Ancestors in the United States between 1780 and 1840
D. Joshua Taylor, MA, MLS
Content
Welcome
1m 57s
Speaker's Introduction
59s
Introduction
6m 17s
War of 1812
1m 58s
Transportation
4m 2s
Economic
6m 11s
Limitations
11m 46s
Beyond Vital Events
13m 33s
Compiled Genealogies
9m 3s
DAR
12m 39s
Announcements / prizes
6m 28s
Questions / answers
12m 51s
About this webinar
Have you lost an ancestor between 1780 and 1840? Often connecting our ancestors to colonists can be quite a task. Learn how to employ probate, land, census, tax, and other compiled records to help bridge the gap.
\nAbout the speaker
For more than 20 years Joshua has been discovering – and sharing – the incredible connections that can be made through genealogy and family history. As host of the popular series Genealogy...
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Very clear and well presented information. Many thanks.\n\nVery detailed presentation with an excellent example at the end. Checked for a couple databases he mentioned and my local university subscribes! Unfortunately, the university is closed for Covid-19...hoping for better days ahead!\n\nvery good\n\nVery good webinar! Great ideas for a really tough time period. \n\nVery helpful in pointing to Imprints, etc; and in terms of how to frame a search (including historical context).\n\nVery informative - I learned a lot !!\n\nVery informative and easy to listen to\n\nVery informative and extremely well done! \n\nvery informative and helpful\n\nvery informative and Josh is a good speaker!\n\nVery informative and well-presented!\n\nvery informative webinar. thank you\n\nvery informative, thank you. I have many brick walls in that time period and your talk may help to break through them.\n\nVery informative. A lot of history and the sources to look at.\n\nVery interesting and informative.\n\nvery interesting sources and well presented\n\nVery interesting way to view the time period. \n\nVery interesting! Would like to hear more from him.\n\nvery interesting, thank you.\n\nVery interesting. Lots of information and sources to look at. I hope I can find them all.\n\nVery knowledgeable speaker \n\nVery thorough, very knowledgeable, very well spoken! Thanks!\n\nVery thorough.\n\nvery useful information. Would like Josh to do a similar webinar for pre-Revolutionary War era 1760s-mid-1770s - to understand better what records would have been created and held domestically (in America) in contrast to records created for Great Britain, while the country was still considered British North America (even as sentiments were shifting).\n\nVery well informed speaker, clear and easy to follow\n\nVery well organized. \n\nWas very informative\n\nWell done. Very informative. \n\nWell presented - Josh is a pro! Lots of good ideas for further research.\n\nwell-organized, comprehensive survey along with commentary to support the points, Josh is always well-spoken. This will encourage me to work on my 'early' ancestors' line again.\n\nWhat an amazing amount of information and suggestions in such a short space of time!\n\nWill watch again, lots of good information!\n\nWonderful information.\n\nWonderful information. Thank you so much!\n\nWonderful webinar. I will ALWAYS sign up for a Josh Taylor talk.\n\nWonderful! Thank you! Always enjoy Josh's webinars. I have Many SC ancestors who were Baptist so thanks especially for that info!!\n\nWonderful! Love D. Joshua Taylor webinars . Only thing is I wish the audio was better though I understand it's because so many fellow Genealogists wanted to be a part of it. Thanks again for all your hard work Go to Webinar! Mahalo!\n\nWould like more information in the handout about the events discussed at the beginning - panics, etc. Couldn't write fast enough to get the dates and explanations.
Phenomenal.. I learned alot . Thank you.\n\nPLEASE continue to bring Josh back for more webinars! He has given me a few more leads for my elusive MORRIS family of NY. Thanks. \n\nRated a 4 only because Josh rushed through some of his slides too fast for us to take down key points or even see them. I wish the section surveying the decades with the history & economic impacts had been extended one more decade (1840-1850) to help us bridge the gap between the 1840 & 1850 census. It felt like a 90-minute presentation, compressed into an hour. Apart from that, an outstanding presentation. \n\nReceived some idea that I've not tried. Thank you\n\nRich in information. Particularly like how understanding the context of the times is so important: economic panic, spread of new religions, understanding limitations of records. All very practical ways to think about where and how to find records. Thank you!\n\nSo much great information from Josh! I'm going to look into any books he has written. Thanks for providing this webinar. :)\n\nSo much great information!\n\nSO MUCH great information. So glad Josh was willing to share it with us.\n\nSo much information I will need to use the syllabus and maybe even watch it again. Fantastic!\n\nSo much information! I have so many research questions to formulate now! Where to begin. Thank you, thank you!\n\nSuch a wealth of information. Thank you\n\nSuch great information and examples! Great syllabus, as well! Thanks so much!\n\nSuperb! Probably the best webinar I've attended. Great instructor. Well organized. Good presentation. \n\nGreat content\n\nTerrific! Thank you so much\n\nThank you! Josh's presentations are all amazing and you definitely don't want to miss them. ; )\n\nThank you. \n\nThanks for excellent information.\n\nThe events in history put much of my ancestors' migration in context. Please consider hosting a webinar continuing the timeline of history. For instance, how did events such as the Civil War, the Industrial Revolution, other economic downturns and depressions, etc., affect migration patterns?\n\nThe information that Joshua presented will help me very much in my research.\n\nThe webinar provided me with lots of new information and sources to help bridge my research gap. As a DAR member, I was thrilled to see our online resources included.\n\nThe webinar was great \n\nThe webinar was well organized and informative.\n\nThe webinar was well-organized and presented. I appreciated the overview of potential resources and the examples how they might be useful in locating/documenting ancestors.\n\nThere were many good ideas for researching this specific time period.\n\nThis is the type of webinar I love, love, love! Solid information that will make me a better (more thoughtful) genealogist and further my research abilities. \n\nThis topic could fill a whole week of webinars!! Great distillation of concepts and ideas.\n\nThis was a very helpful webinar, as I am preparing to take another go at a previously unanswered research question based during this time period. Many resources were mentioned today that I will be adding to my locality guides and research plan.\n\nThis was great. I would love to have another session on the same topic and earlier in time. Thank you. \n\nThis was my very first Legacy Seminar and I was thoroughly pleased. I have been doing my own genealogy and genealogy for others for 10 years. I am getting ready to work for the census, but I am sure that after that I will get the membership so that I have the many resources at my fingertips as I continue this hobby and \nprofession. Thanks again.\n\nThis was so very helpful\n\nThis was very helpful for me because I thought that I couldn't go back any further in my tree so i am looking forward to trying all the tips provided. Thanks for a great webinar!\n\nToo much stuff. too little time. My old brain fried.\n\nTop notch! Extremely informative even for a long-time researcher. Thanks!
Jaw dropping good! Loved the session.\n\nJosh always has a jam-packed webinar. I'll be relistening to catch what I missed, probably several times.\n\nJosh always is inclusive and has such a breadth of knowledge!\n\nJosh did a great job!\n\nJosh gave some new directions I can try.\n\nJosh is a great presenter and Marian is a great host! I love their enthusiasm.\n\nJosh is always a pleasure. He is so knowledgeable, and I leave with new ideas for where and how to research. Thank you!\n\nJosh is always prepared, well researched, articulate, and methodical in his presentations. Great work today.\n\nJosh is always sooooooooooo thorough.\n\nJosh is an expert and his webinars prove it. Thanks for featuring him.\n\nJosh is great! Attended one of his classes at GRIP in Pittsburgh and did not want to this webinar. \n\nJosh is my favorite presenter! Wow, this has really helped me see where I need to research further on all those 4th -6th great grandparents in that time period! Thanks\n\nJosh is never a let down - he says he could talk all day - well, I think we all could listen to him guide us through the records all day;-))\n\nJosh is very knowledgeable and a very good speaker. I have an ancestor born in New Jersey in 1801, and was hopeful to get some tips on additional resources available online to search for his birth. I did learn that I had covered everything available on line and now need to visit libraries, etc. in New Jersey to look for possible documentation on this birth.\n\nJosh never fails - he's always full of great information.\n\nJosh really knows his stuff! A lot of information to think about.\n\nJosh Taylor always has a great knowledge of whatever subject he is presenting. Well done, concise, informative.\n\nJosh Taylor is a great and thorough speaker. His slides are amazing. Although I have no direct lines coming to the United States until 1865, as I expand my research, I may find ancestors who arrived at an earlier time through an indirect line. Thank you.\n\nJosh Taylor is a wonderful speaker,, so knowledgeable and organized. Thanks for having him!\n\nJosh Taylor is ALWAYS a great speaker! This timeperiod is exactly where I'm at with my research so this topic is especially timely!!\n\nJosh Taylor is always excellent. Good topic.\n\nJosh Taylor's talks are always awesome. \n\nJosh Taylor's webinar are always wonderful. I do appreciate Legacy for hosting this VERY important topic. These are tough years to research--especially in the southern states like TN, KY, MO, GA, AL, etc. We need all the help we can get. \n\nJosh Taylor's webinars are wonderful. Always so much information.\n\nJosh was his usual outstanding self on a great topic.\n\nJoshua always covers his topics so well you always learn something\n\nJoshua always excels in his presentations.\n\nJoshua had so much important information to cover. He gave lots of good suggestions of resources to search for this early time period. I will need to listen to the webinar again to complete my notes. This was a very helpful and well-organized presentation!\n\nJoshua is always excellent, no matter what his subject.\n\nJoshua is an excellent presenter and always covers topics thoroughly.\n\nJoshua Is one of my favorite presenters, always get a long list of things to follow up on.\n\nJoshua Taylor's webinars are always great and always learn.\n\nJust getting back into doing genealogical research after a few years, so this was good for me to listen to. Sometimes very dry, but that can be the nature of genealogy, even though you have lots of interest in the topic.
learned a lot \n\nLearned so many sources to check for my early 18th century ancestors\n\nLearned some new strategies & reminded me of some I haven't pursued as yet.\n\nLiked how he packed a lot of specific info about sources into such a short time. Very clear, well organized.\n\nliked the quick history lesson of what may have affected ancestors. excellent breakdown of categories where you can find information. \n\nLots of good ideas, thank you.\n\nLots of good information.\n\nLots of good information. \n\nLots of great information\n\nLots of great information!\n\nLots of great information!\n\nLots of great information, presented in an organized manner!\n\nLots of great research ideas!\n\nLots of information\n\nLove Josh! Could listen to him lecture all day. Thanks for having him.\n\nloved it - great info!\n\nMore, please!!\n\nMost informative. Thank you.\n\nMr. Taylor is always great to listen to in a webinar. Lots of information, easy to follow, but not overly simplistic. Great resources and comfortable in presenting. \n\nGreat job! Great webinar!\n\nOne of the things I learned were new tips on using DAR resources.\n\nOne to re-watch multiple times! \n\nOne to watch again.\n\nOutstanding webinar. Very well organized. Josh's is a Professional Genealogist. Well above my level and needs. Enjoyed it and I will look for his other recorded webinars.\n\nOUTSTANDING! Well organized and presented.\n\nOutstanding!!
Had to miss a few parts, but intend to come back and rewatch. Great topic and presenter!\n\nHave some new ideas for research..\n\nHe gave lots of info\n\nHe is a great speaker and his handout is so detailed and will be very helpful in moving forward.\n\nHe is such a knowledgeable and well-prepared presenter. I am thankful for the helpful research suggestions. \n\nHe talks so fast sometimes it's hart to get everytihg he says. I think mostly because he has so much information to give out.\n\nHe was excellent on a difficult topic. \n\nHelpful information from a talented speaker\n\nHelpful introduction to this topic.\n\nHis delivery was great, well paced, clear, goot content, didn't babble on, and didn't use his famliy research throughout the content. I always like Josh's webinars. \n\nHow about a 10!\n\nI joined an hour late because I was told that Arizona goes by Pacific Time and so I logged in at 12:00 : ( That being said, I was fascinated by what I was listening to. I know Josh from Genealogy Roadshow and was always intrigued by his explanations on that program and the little bit I heard, today was no exception!.\n\nI am a registrar for two lineage societies and was so grateful for this particular webinar! Joshua was articulate and gave me many new sources to look at.\n\nThank you!\n\nI could listen to Josh all day long! (swoon!) I always learn new things listening to Josh. Excellent webinar. Please have Josh on for more webinars.\n\nI could only get the last 1/2 hour due to full house....the part I listened to was great!\n\nI enjoy listening to Joshua Taylor - He is so knowledgable!!! I loved his show too. \n\nI enjoyed the examples that expanded on the sources discussed.\n\nI have heard this presented on different occasions and have thoroughly enjoyed them. He is well spoken, knowledgeable. \n\nI learned a lot about researching this early time period.\n\nI learned about several resources that i had not known about before. \n\nI learned many things. Thank you. Great presentation, too.\n\nI learned so much. The material was presented in a very clear way. Josh is a terrific speaker. Thank you.\n\nI love listening to Joshua - he is the genealogist that I wish I could be. Thanks.\n\nI love listening to Joshua! He is the best! Wonderful webinar. Thank you.\n\nI loved this Webinar! I'd like to see more similar ones.\n\nI might have to watch this one again--so much was covered!\n\nI really appreciated D Joshua Taylor's insight into alternative ways to use the few records we have from this time period. Bravo!\n\nI really enjoyed this webinar. There was so much information to absorb, that I would love it if this became a series of webinars, each one covering one of his main bullet points.\n\ni thought it was going to be same old same old and it was so far better than that - of course - considering the presenter - i should not have been surprised. So good!\n\nI took lots of notes. Lots of great tips and ideas to research!\n\ni want to give Josh Taylor’s webinar a 10\n\nI wish there was an easy answer for this time period. Thanks for the hints.\n\nIdentified some sources I am excited to check. Thank you!\n\nI'll be watching this webinar again & again!\n\nI'll have to watch it again to absorb all the information.\n\nI'm starting a new family line, my dad's, and this is an entirely new area for me. Thanks.\n\ninteresting\n\nIt was a wonderful webinar. I learned things that will help me with my research immediately.\n\nIt was excellent. Put so much in excellent context. thank you\n\nIt was fabulous.\n\nIt was really a 6. Excellent\n\nIt was very good. I would have liked to have more examples pertaining to Southern states which did not have the same types of records as in Massachusetts and most of New England.\n\nIt's a winner!! Such excellent education on analysis, planning, processing, adding in historical details... I always learn so much from these webinars! Josh is an excellent presenter as well, laying out the research plan and tips etc. Thank you so much for another very educational webinar!!
Fabulous as always! Josh has a great way of taking a difficult topic and breaking it down into its simpler parts. Wonderful resource for understanding the methodology behind pre-1850 US research!\n\nFabulous information. Not sure where to re-start some of my research...but here we go!\n\nFabulous- Joshua is such a wealth of info.\n\nFabulous webinar! So much great information. Would love more webinars by Joshua.\n\nFANTASTIC\n\nFantastic webinar with lots of great information to assist with early American genealogical research.\n\nFantastic!\n\nFantastic! I learned so much!\n\nFantastic. Love D Joshua Tayor!\n\nFantastic. Will watch it again for details I might have missed.\n\nFascinating presentation! His passion comes through in his discussion!\n\nGood ideas and resources!\n\nGood info \n\nGood info on that hard to find time frame\n\nGood job, Josh!\n\nGood job, Josh! \n\nGood leads on multiple topics. Can't wait until on site research is available again. \n\nGot the clues to methodology I was looking for. Re-assured me that the conclusions I've been drawing from sketchy records are not atypical.\n\nGreat - opens up lots of avenue to check\n\ngreat -- will rewatch it again! lots of information\n\nGreat background overview survey at the beginning. \n\nGreat Info\n\nGreat info. \n\nGreat information!!!\n\nGreat information, but presentation was too much too fast. Left early due to that. Will rewatch when I can pause it and take notes while not being so rushed. I was unable to take notes, pay attention and actually absorb what was being presented at the pace it was going. \n\nGreat instructor\n\nGreat lecture!\n\nGreat new ideas for research\n\nGreat overview of the historical context for this period and the records and research strategies. Josh packed a lot of tremendously useful information into this webinar!\n\nGreat presentation!\n\nGreat presentation! I wish there had been time to address more questions. \n\nGreat presentation! Loved the suggestions for finding resources for this time period -- and realizing that some items may never have been created in the first place. Thank you!\n\nGreat presentation! Full of new information, especially about the whereabouts of religious records!\n\nGreat presentation! Very well organized with information to search for that is not commonly known. He is always a great lecturer to listen to!\n\nGreat presentation. Examples and recommendations were very helpful.\n\nGreat presenter, important material. Thanks!\n\nGreat resources\n\nGreat resources\n\ngreat speaker and he knows so much!!\n\nGreat speaker. Good ideas in addition to summary of traditional sources.\n\ngreat suggesitons\n\nGreat topic, excellent presentation. Will want to review it a second time. \n\nGreat topic, extremely helpful info, relevant slides--loved it all! He seemed to talk pretty fast and whipped through his slides, presumably because he had so much material to cover in a limited time. This is one webinar I will have to view again. So glad I am a member so I can watch when I have more time!\n\nGreat webinar on a topic that I know very little about!\n\nGreat webinar with a lot of detail \n\nGreat webinar! Now I have some additional search ideas.\n\nGreat webinar!!\n\nGreat Webinar!!!\n\nGreat webinar. Lots of information and sources\n\nGreat webinar. Audio was fuzzy.\n\nGreat. Lot of information.
Absolutely wonderful!\n\nAbsolutely wonderful. So much information and so clearly presented. Thank you, Joshua.\n\nAlways amazed at his knowledge.\n\nAlways find Josh's material useful. I work NY and MD and some other New England at times. Love the examples.\n\nAlways great!!\n\nAlways great!!!\n\nAlways outstanding information from Josh.\n\nAmazing presentation but too fast! As a member, I need to go back and listen to it again... and maybe again after that. Thank you\n\nAnother excellent & knowledgeable speaker. Lots of new information here.\n\nAnother spectacular webinar from Josh Taylor!\n\nAs always, Josh has the best presentations!\n\nAs always, very helpful. Thanks, got lots to do now!\n\nAudio was a little scratchy at times, but Josh is wonderful, knowledgeable and feels spontaneous. Very relevant topic. Thank you!\n\nAwesome Joshua! I learned something every time. Thanks\n\nAwesome presentation with great information! Thank you\n\nAwesome. Great ideas of where to go when we seem stuck.\n\nBest webinar yet! Great presentation: I am amazed that Joshua was able to provide so much information in one hour and in a way that will be remembered.\n\nBrilliant as always. I could have listened for hours more.\n\ncomprehensive review of resources for this time period...can't wait to get started on my research!\n\nJosh is a great speaker and the topic was very timely for my research.\n\nCould listen to Josh all day long.\n\nCovered a lot of information in a short period of time. Awesome!\n\nD Joshua Taylor is just a brilliant presenter! His lectures are detailed, practical and extremely helpful. Thank you!\n\nD. Joshua Taylor is always an excellent speaker. He has so much to cover that just an hour doesn't suffice. At least I can listen to the webinar again and possibly pick up additional information that I may have missed this first time through. Thank you Josh and LegacyFamilyTree Webinars.\n\nDefinitely NEED to listen/watch again. And will try to be more prepared with my own ancestors' names, dates and places. \n\nEmphasized quite well the need to speculate, then investigate - thoroughly! Thanks Josh.\n\nEven though I was late, it was excellent \n\nEvery once in awhile you happen upon the kind of information you really need for researching a problem. This was that information. Thanks so much. \n\nExcellent \n\nExcellent ... so much information!!!\n\nExcellent and informative. Josh is a great speaker -- and I have some new leads after hearing this. Well worth taking my lunch hour from work to listen to this.\n\nexcellent content and presentation\n\nExcellent content.\n\nExcellent information !!\n\nExcellent information and advice! I have a brick wall ancestor from Germany who came to America during this time, and we cannot find him before 1850. Thank you!! \n\nExcellent information and tips for resources.\n\nExcellent Knowledge and Presentation.\n\nExcellent presentation and lots of ideas!\n\nExcellent presentation and syllabus, and easy to follow and take notes. Thanks, Josh.\n\nExcellent presentation of a very difficult subject!\n\nExcellent presentation on a neglected topic. Thanks for the good introduction and interesting case study.\n\nExcellent presentation! Thank you!\n\nExcellent program by Josh - thank you. Lots of information and new leads to think about.\n\nExcellent seminar. Learned quite a lot. THANK YOU!\n\nExcellent sources for this time period.\n\nExcellent speaker and subject.\n\nExcellent speaker, good points. Just wish he had addressed researching in the South for this time period. Felt most of what he spoke of did not pertain to my research\n\nExcellent topic and well organized overview left me wanting more! Great speaker of course too.\n\nexcellent webinar\n\nExcellent webinar and excellent presenter...I learned a lot of strategies and resources to use in my family research. Thank you!\n\nExcellent webinar and presenter!!!!! Great content!!!!!!\n\nEXCELLENT WEBINAR!!!\n\nExcellent webinar.\n\nExcellent webinar.\n\nExcellent!\n\nExcellent!\n\nExcellent! \n\nExcellent! I would love to hear the same kind of things for Pennsylvania.\n\nExcellent! Josh is knowlegdeable and can break down information to make it understandable and manageable.\n\nExcellent! Full of ideas that on which I want to follow-up. Thank you\n\nExcellent!!\n\nEXCELLENT!!\n\nExcellent!!!\n\nExcellent!!!!!\n\nExcellent, thorough webinar of a time period that is very difficult to research. \n\nExcellent. Lots of great information. \n\nExcellent. Not your usual sources.\n\nExcellent....well organized with great examples. \n\nExceptional presentation, great resources... Thank you.