Comments on: How do you begin a family history search? http://www.tracemyfamilytree.com/family-search/how-do-you-begin-a-family-history-search Resources for tracing your family tree Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:59:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: rookie http://www.tracemyfamilytree.com/family-search/how-do-you-begin-a-family-history-search/comment-page-1#comment-328 rookie Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:51:59 +0000 http://www.tracemyfamilytree.com/family-search/how-do-you-begin-a-family-history-search#comment-328 www.ancestry.com it's free type in last names and go from there<br><b>References : </b><br> http://www.ancestry.com it's free type in last names and go from there
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]]> By: Bryce http://www.tracemyfamilytree.com/family-search/how-do-you-begin-a-family-history-search/comment-page-1#comment-327 Bryce Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:27:59 +0000 http://www.tracemyfamilytree.com/family-search/how-do-you-begin-a-family-history-search#comment-327 Talk to your relatives, gather evidence (i.e., birth, wedding, divorce and death records), organize your family tree, and when you run out of living relatives, use library resources to trace census data, etc. Lots on info i available online, but you need to talk to your relatives first, while they live, to get all the human-interest background you can. Of course you need to be able to prove dates, etc., and that's what the paperwork is for. It's a long, drawn-out process, but fun! I wish I'd started early enough to talk at length with my grandparents... but my parents are still kicking, so I'm not totally out of touch with the pre-WOrld War II era!<br><b>References : </b><br>Interested in my own family history 30 years, genealogy librarian for about 10. Talk to your relatives, gather evidence (i.e., birth, wedding, divorce and death records), organize your family tree, and when you run out of living relatives, use library resources to trace census data, etc. Lots on info i available online, but you need to talk to your relatives first, while they live, to get all the human-interest background you can.

Of course you need to be able to prove dates, etc., and that's what the paperwork is for.

It's a long, drawn-out process, but fun! I wish I'd started early enough to talk at length with my grandparents… but my parents are still kicking, so I'm not totally out of touch with the pre-WOrld War II era!
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Interested in my own family history 30 years, genealogy librarian for about 10.

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