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FREE to record personal UnRecorded History

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A student, graduate or trainee who works, sometimes without pay, at a trade or occupation in order to gain work experience

An internship is a period of work experience offered by an organization for a limited period of time. Once confined to medical graduates, the term is now used for a wide range of placements within businesses, non-profit organizations and government agencies. A HistoriZe internship is FREE for the pupose of learning how to navigate the HistoriZe website and to use Help to gain experience in locating UnRecorded History.

You have complete control of this single Personal Topic. The Topic is FREE courtesy of a local sponsor. This sponsorship is changable as oftern as you like. You may get your family or a business to sponsor this topic and earn income to pay for the time and effort it takes to HistoriZe.
You keep all income.

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Your Topic can remain FREE for as long as you like or untill notified of a major policy update.
IF YOU FIND YOURSELF, A FAMILY MEMBER, OR PEOPLE IN YOUR ORGANIZATION ARE INTERESTED IN LOCAL HISTORY THEN YOU MAY WANT TO UPGRADE. You can DownGrade at any time back to an Intern.

Someone did a lot of work to accumulate history for an obituary or celebration of life. HistoriZe it.

Use your smart phone to scan old school, church and military yearbooks

Use your smart phone to HistoriZe a grave site. Talk about what you know of that person and make it a video.

Or better yet HistoriZe the whole cemetary. Find a sponsor to help pay for your time and effort.

Search for more information on your ancestor's occupation to include when HistoriZing

Get Prepped

Start at your local library. Even if you're only investigating a person, and not an entire family tree, there are many great books on genealogy with useful research information. Birth and death records are a great place to start searching. You can find where to send your requests for birth, death or marriage information online, or may complete the search yourself at the municipal archive. You may learn a lot just from basic documents such as the birth, death and marriage records. Be open minded to the idea that your name may have been spelled differently in the past, or your birthday and your parent's wedding date turn out to be only six months apart. Search out local historians and the local historical and genealogical societies. They often have an encyclopedic knowledge of local history (or know the person who does). They can provide clues and insights you never dreamed of.

Get Researching

Know the history of the time you're researching. An understanding of local culture and climate can offer many clues as to your ancestor's experience. The census for the years 1790-1930 are available for research purposes. The National Archives has detailed instructions on how to best do a census search. Read up online, then find where the microfilmed records are located nearest to you. In order to do a search, you must know the state, county and town of the person you're researching. You must also know the surname of the head of the household. The National Archive has an online listing of National Archive centers near you. While these holdings may be more limited than the Washington, D.C. headquarters, regional archives are also great sources for local information. When you know a little, you can find out a lot: there are bankruptcy files to review, court files, homestead land grants, shipping lists and veteran's information, just to mention a few of the options. Consider joining a local genealogical society if your research is localized. They'll have good tips and a great understanding of the records available. Many archive facilities offer genealogy research workshops.