Using Voting and Election Records to Find Your Ancestor

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1. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   7 years ago

   After many years of researching, I had not as yet, used Voter/Election records. Thank you for adding a new resource to my research toolbox. Great presentation by Melissa Barker.\n\nAlways enjoy Melissa's presentation. Great speaker! Thank you. :)\n\nAlways glad to hear any of Melisa Barker's webinars.\n\nAnother source to consider. \n\nAwesome webinar! Very appropriately timed the day after mid-term elections in the US when many of us are very interested in voting. This appears to be a potential goldmine of records to replace problematic 1890-ish brick walls. Looking forward to getting started... Thanks!!!\n\nBrilliant webinar with lots of great ideas for new places to research out my genealogy. I am amazed that I had forgotten about these types of records.\n\nExcellent presentation - good slides - great info.\n\nExcellent presentation and as applicable to Canadian voting records.\n\nExcellent presentation. It definitely provided some new avenues for my research. Thank you very much & Happy Hunting to all!! \n\nExcellent webinar! Very helpful. Thanks to Melissa, Geoff & Legacy!\n\nExcellent! Encourages me to contact our state archives. Thank you!!\n\nFound it very informative and am anxious to try it out.\n\nFun example documents\n\ngood info\n\nGood information about a potential substitute for missing census records and non-census years.\n\nGood information, much of which I was familiar with, but always helpful to review..\n\nGood material, presented a little slow.\n\nGood presentation. Thanks Melissa.\n\nGood speaking pace, liked the slides --not too wordy and easy to follow; also liked all the repository suggestions.\n\nGreat information! \n\nGreat information.\n\nGreat topic and presented well!\n\nGreat webinar! Lots of tips on finding my ancestors in places I didn't think much about. Thanks :)\n\nI always enjoy her presentations. \n\nI did really enjoy this speaker.\n\nI had to leave before the webinar was finished so I'll be watching this one again later. So glad that I'm a member.\n\nI rarely give '5s,' but this is well deserved!\n\nI'm glad I watched, as I now have a new perspective regarding voting & election records. Thank you.\n\nInformative.\n\nInteresting. I'll have to look into voter records more often, especially as a means of locking down where ancestors were when. I just wish they were kept in a standard location and manner. Basically it's just another haystack to try and find in the hay field, to then hunt for the needle.\n\nIt was very interesting and something I had not known about before.\n\nJoined late, but thankfully I'm a webinar "member" and will be able to pick up the very parts I missed. Now off to search voting records, etc. (:-) \n\nLearned a lot about possible sources of information.\n\nLots of good ideas to find more info on ancestors, especially 1890-1900! Thanks!!\n\nLots of great suggestions for new resources.\n\nLoved the presentation and the example records given in the slideshow. I appreciated the links provided by Geoff and other attendees. I liked learning about the other products and recordings available.\n\nMelissa always shares helpful information.\n\nMelissa Barker is excellent and always presents information on unusual record sources.\n\nMelissa gave some good ideas for search. Enjoyed this webinar very much\n\nMelissa provided a lot of food for thought!\n\nNever thought about these records. I'll add it to my very very long To Do List.\n\nOther resources to try! \n\nOutstanding as always. Great presenter.\n\nOutstanding presentation. I came away with many new ideas of where to search for records I had not even considered.\n\nPresenter had in-depth knowledge of her subject. Excellent!\n\nShe's always very interesting. She even answered one of my questions before I got a chance to ask it. (smile)\n\nthis was great info. \n\nToday's webinar was a new direction that I hadn't considered. Thanks Mellissa for the new insight!!\n\nVery good\n\nVery good webinar about a not so common record source. Melissa did a great job. Thank you.\n\nVery helpful. \n\nVery informative\n\nVery Informative\n\nVery informative and helpful for my research! :) \n\nVery informative.\n\nVery interesting webinar with so much to learn. Thank you very much.\n\nVery interesting!\n\nVery interesting, gave me some new research ideas. I think this is the first webinar I have been able to watch of Melissa's - I will be checking out her other webinars.\n\nVery interesting. A new set of records to try.\n\nvery organized presentator\n\nWho would'a thunk it!! What great info and in a place I didn't consider! Thanks for a very interesting webinar.\n\nwonderful idea for voting.\n\nWonderful information! \n\nWonderful new place to search. Thank you\n\nWonderful!\n\nWould like to learn more about Google Books. The program was very informative. Lots of resources to use.

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