How To Use The Web To Research Your Family Tree

Genealogy article brought to you by Russel Clark, Posted on: 2006-04-16

You would like to learn more about your family's genealogy. Where do you go? After you take the time to learn all that you can from the people that are living in your family, you will want to take the time to gather the facts that may go further back. You may need to take the time to learn about them more so than what these people can tell you. To do this, you can turn to the internet for help. Believe it or not, there are many ways in which the web can help you to get the results that you are looking for. And, since they are right at your fingertips, there is no way that you have to stop your search for genealogy at what your family can tell you.

If you go back a little farther, you may get to see some very interesting things about your family. You may get to learn who they were and what happened to them a little farther into history. To do this, though, you should tap into the resources that are on the web. You can start by looking at the genealogy resources that are offered to you right on the web. This will include such things as religious organizations that have many databases of families that have been with them including their pasts. You may want to look at genealogical resources that are strictly offered to you through the web through organizations that actually make this part of their job. In fact, you may also want to use message boards, blogs and other website forums in which others gather to look for those that are in their lives and in their pasts.

Another option that you have on the web is that of using the professionals that offer their services on the web. There are many of these. You will likely pay for their service, but this will be a good way to tap into the resources that may be beyond your reach. Many people will take the time to use these services because they offer an extensive line of resources to tap into. These may include a wide range of things that will allow them to date back your family much farther then you would be able to do on your own. Because they do this professionally, they have resources in place to make the task easier to do. Using them or using your own skills, the goal is to secure the history that your family has. You can do it and you will be rewarded for doing so.


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Organizing Family Discoveries

Genealogy article brought to you by William Teleo, Posted on: 2006-06-05

It's great when the family gets together, but you know that it'll be much greater if all family members can get to know each other and share the family history. Much interest had been given to genealogic researches in the past years, but still, the most common form of genealogic research remains to be the family tree and its branching out. A family tree is a cinch to make if you intend to include only members of your immediate family (parents, sibling, grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins) but what if you aim to include the three generations before you? Or what if you intend to find out who your ancestors are? This entails a much larger scope and therefore a more thorough research. This also means more extensive notes, files, pictures, interview transcripts, and other documents. To save you from disorganization and make your research easier, Carolyn Billingsley and Desmond Allen have devised an efficient filing system specifically for genealogic research.

The materials they prescribed are easy enough to procure such as a filing cabinet (boxes will do), data records, pens with black ink, file folders, notebook (loose leaf), and notebook dividers. They recommend that you start by making nuclear family records. Printed forms are available to make it easier. Record information by family. Separate your own family record from that of your parents. Use marriages as guide, as each marriage requires a separate data sheet. Fill out forms backward, starting from the present and to the past. Make all information on each family uniform, leave spaces for unknown data and fill them out later when you got the missing links. It is also important to indicate sources of the information. Include birth certificates, death certificates, and marriage certificates with the members' personal information but remember to use only photocopied records. Label sheets with family surnames and put them in file folders duly labeled. Collect and store these nuclear family sheets to larger family groups. To do these use bigger filing folders. Label these folders by the family patriarch's name, for example, your grandfather's name. Include in this folder all files of your uncles, aunts, parent, married siblings, married cousins, etc. An optional step is to add a contents page to give you a clue about what is inside the folders. These will make it easier for you to fill out your family tree and its branches. An organized research will save you the trouble of diving into heaps of paper searching for documents that you think are there but have no idea where to find.

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