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Genealogical Research Using FBI Files

Home Sources

The following list includes the most common items a researcher can hope to find at any of the following places: your home, at your parents' home, or at the homes of other close relatives or friends. Make your own list of possible places, then begin visiting the various locations.

Diaries
Journals
Photograph Albums
Individual Photographs (back sides)
Family Bibles
Old Books (check inside for items tucked away, inscriptions, and notes made inside the front and back covers).
Letters
Scrapbooks
Wedding Albums
Certificates (birth, marriage, death, military,school, church, etc.)
Baby Albums
Funeral Announcements or Albums Announcements and Invitations (birth,wedding, and graduation)
School Yearbooks
Account Books Newspaper Clippings
Business and Financial Documents and Papers Autograph Books
Artifacts (names on quilts, paintings, or backs
or bottoms of items)


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