Research Practice Exercises
Solve practice problems with record collections and databases from around the world.
Welcome
There are over 300 ready-made Practice Exercises in The Family History Guide country pages, from basic to advanced, with more exercises on the way. Each exercise is designed to help you sharpen your research skills by solving quick sample problems, using record collections and databases.
Basic exercises are marked with a green dot ( 
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For more about the Practice Exercises, check out this blog article or this 5-Minute Features video:
Sample Exercise
Here is a Practice Exercise from Virginia Goal 3, Choice B. Click the links to see the problem statement, hints, and answers.
Record Search Practice |
Daisy Bullock was born in Virginia. Use the "FS: Virginia Births and Christenings, 1584-1917" QUIKLink below to answer these questions:
- When was Daisy Bullock born?
- Where was she born?
- What is her mother's first name?
- Click the QUIKLink mentioned above.
- In the search screen, enter "Daisy" as the first name and "Bullock" as the last name.
- In the search results screen, click the document icon for Daisy Bullock.
- Read the information in the center column.
- Daisy was born in August 1870.
- Her birthplace is Curtland, Spotsylvania, Virginia.
- Her mother's first name is Catherine.
(Contributed by Brent Bunker )
Finding the Exercises
The Practice Exercises are embedded in many of the Choices for countries and states around the world. To help you find ones of interest, you can use the Practice Exercises Index below. It is a Google sheet that has columns for countries and record types, and the record type entries have links that take you to the pages with the Practice Exercises. There are several tabs in the sheet: Countries, U.S. States, and England Counties.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G8YRrJXc1ofmzF2YGu1FL1plt0qzTG4o-rW4RBvS5lc