A Couple of Tricks to Find All Ancestors in a Given Census

I encourage all genealogists to do their best to find all of their direct ancestors in every available census. The only way to do this is go have a plan and go at it systematically. Ancestry.com has the 1880 and 1940 US Federal Censuses available to everyone for free. There's no reason not to be sure you have the census images for all the ancestors you can.

What I did was decided I was going to work on the 1880 Census. I pulled up my family tree in pedigree view. This showed me all ancestors back to and including all of my great-great-grandparents. I started a the top of the chart (the direct male line) and figured out which of them would have been alive at the time of the 1880 census and where they were living at the time. If I didn't already have the images of them in the census, I went to Ancestry, brought up the 1880 census and, on the right side of the page, browsed down to the town I expected them to be in.

Moriz Panther Biography

Moriz Panther, my great-great-grandfather, was born in Stadelhofen, A. Achern Ortenaukreis, Baden. His parents, Franz Joseph Panther and Genovefa Schindler, moved the family from Stadelhofen to Mösbach some time after the children were born.

Moriz Panther Baptismal Record

Links to My Family History Pages

Here's a listing of all the web links I have regarding family history research I'm working on:

My main blog page (this page): http://matthewkmiller.blogspot.com. Be sure to bookmark it if you haven't already.

My main link page that links to all the other pages I have going. If you save only one Favorite or Bookmark, make it this one:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~matthewkmiller/

My full family tree on RootsWeb: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=mattmiller

My Lulu storefront selling all family history books I've made available: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/matthewkmiller

Here are the individual books that are available:
Moriz Panther and Elizabeth Birk - Their Descendants and Ancestors: http://www.lulu.com/shop/matthew-k-miller/moriz-panther-and-elizabeth-birk-their-descendants-and-ancestors/hardcover/product-20362436.html

The Bixenman Family - Volume 1 - By Sister Catherine Seemann: http://www.lulu.com/shop/sister-catherine-seemann/the-bixenman-family-volume-1/hardcover/product-20477261.html

Bixenman Family Tree - Volume 2 - By Sister Catherine Seemann: http://www.lulu.com/shop/sister-catherine-seemann/bixenman-family-tree-volume-2/hardcover/product-21234754.html

My YouTube Channel - Most of the videos aren't family history related. They are videos of things I've recorded that I found interesting but should I record anything family history related, it will be here: https://www.youtube.com/user/matthewmille

German Church Record Basics - Part 2 - Latin Records

This is Part 2 of German Church Record Basics - Latin Records. The church record books in Germany prior to about 1800 were typically written in Latin. After about 1800, they were written in German. The part covering the church book records in the German language can be found here: http://matthewkmiller.blogspot.com/2013/12/german-church-record-basics-part-1.html .

Here are a few sample German Church records in Latin:

Latin Birth/Baptismal (Natus/Baptizatus) Record

Latin Marriage (Matrimonius) Record

Latin Death (Mortus) Record

Latin Birth/Baptism (Natus/Baptizatus) Record - The key words you're looking for are: