Content
Welcome
1m 52s
Speaker's Introduction
1m 14s
Introduction
5m 48s
Types of Records
21m 15s
Types of Ships
2m 24s
Newspapers
17m 23s
More Context
7m 54s
Announcements / prizes
2m 59s
Questions / answers
9m 56s
About this webinar
This lecture explores a variety of tools and resources for tracking sea faring ancestors along with examples from research, including: maritime primary sources and collections, vessel types, tracing captains and crews through newspaper reports, following their journeys by plotting ships logs' latitude and longitude records, and adding context to their lives through historic events affecting mariners. The focus is on nineteenth century records and events.
About the speaker
Denise Cross, MSLIS, CG, is a community college librarian who enjoys research, especially digging deep for an elusive answer. Researching her family since the 1990s, she began formalized education in ...
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Comments (45)
THANK YOU, DENISE!!! This was fantastic! Your syllabus is amazing and I may not go to bed tonight!! So many ships…so little time!
This excellent presentation covered an area of research that I have not yet explored. Great to know what could be found!
Fantastic presentation focused on US Atlantic and Pacific maritime industry. The 8-page syllabus contains almost completely different information, and many, many links, all with the same focus. Now we need more on Great Lakes shipping (Canada and US), the Canadian Maritimes, and International seafaring life and maritime records, for cargo, fishing/whaling, and passenger vessels.
Excellent, can't wait to check out some of the resources she mentioned!
very informative
Excellent speaker on a new-to-me topic.
Denise Cross has covered such an important topic in this webinar about ship records! Her expertise in this field is invaluable & adds fantastic dimension & perspective to the understanding of the immigrant experience!
Learned about new resources to apply to my Dad's family history. Thanks!