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How to start researching your family history and genealogyBY: Histo | Category: Family | Post Date: 2008-11-09
1. Ask the elder members of your family about their parents, grandparents and any other memories. Often it is the very obscure things that will help you later. Gather as much information as possible about any region or country the family came from; Professions, Names of siblings, any odd stories about them. 2. Try and find the marriage and birth certificates for these earliest relatives. Depending on where they were born or married this will give you much valuable information such as father's profession, address, potentially mothers maiden names, etc. 3. Invest in a SW application / database system that will help you store and maintain your data. Trying to do this on paper is difficult as finding any extra sibling can result in a complete re-draw of the tree. Once you have hit a thousand ancestors, you will find that your tree is not so much deep but wide… basically you may only have found 10 generations but it multiples out into thousands of siblings and children. 4. I can't stress enough to keep source data for every single find of information. Don't just write 1881 census, display the name of the site you got the information from and the reference data. Or, your source data may be something as simple of -Memories of Aunt Mary Jones- 5. If you took the advice of step 3, you can export from this a file known as a -gedcom- almost all genealogy sites (at least the good ones) allow you to upload this to their site which will then allow you to display and advertise your tree in a public forum where other people can search. DO NOT EXPORT THE NAMES AND DOBs OF LIVING RELATIVES. Ideally, pick a date, say 100 years ago and remove their personal details… this may mean making a second copy of your data base and removing them manually. 6. Look for free sites that have databases, such as family search. Google searching -Ancestor Name- + City is a great idea especially if the name is not too common. 7. Keep a list of contacts you make and how they are connected to your family and keep in touch with new findings. 8. Start by focusing on one branch then go a branch at a time. 9 Keep all of your on line data up to date. If you are not certain of a particular fact or family member, mark them that way, a good database will have a notes section where you can state why you have made an assumption and what data is missing. When you get far back sometimes assumptions are all you can make. 10. Trace siblings of your direct relatives as far as the 1901 census, this way you will make more contacts and share more information, find more interesting stories, etc. Article Source: http://www.saching.com About Author / Additional Info: Additional Articles: * Getting out of an abusive relationship.Women, stop your abuse early * Indicators that measure the quality of education in an institution * How To Keep a Child Happy * The best methods of marketing articles * Improving your communication skills: Become an effective speaker Does this article violate or infringe on your copyright ? It is a violation of our terms for authors to submit content which they did not write and claim it as their own. If this article infringes on your copyrights, then use our Contact us form with the detailed proof of infringement along with the offending article's title, URL and writer name. If you do not hear back from us then contact us again in another 10 days. Thank you. Comments on this article: (0 comments so far) * Additional comments are now closed for this article *
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