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  • Basic Genealogy Information For Children
  • Bring to Life Those Dead Ends in your Genealogy Research
  • Create a Timeline for your Family history
  • Creating A Family History Has Practical Uses Too
  • Creating A Family Tree
  • Eight Important How to Tips in Searching Census Records
  • Eight Ways to Avoid Barking Up the Wrong Family Tree
  • Ellis Island Records Are Valuable Keys To The Past
  • Fact or Fiction How to Know When You Have a True Lead
  • Five Important Things You Can Learn from Researching Death Records
  • Four Tips for Writing Genealogical Inquiries
  • Genealogy Search
  • Give the Gift of Genealogy Five Gifts that Reflect the Family Tree
  • How Computer Software Can Streamline Your Genealogy Research
  • How Your Local Library Can Provide Clues to Your Ancestry
  • How to Follow up Leads for Possible Native American Ancestors
  • Jumping Into Genealogy
  • Researching Native American History
  • Scrapbooks Are Great Genealogy Tools
  • Searching Foreign Countries For Genealogical Information
  • The Great Genealogical Need
  • Tracing Genealogy through Church Records
  • Using Public Records For Genealogical Research
  • Using The Internet For Genealogical Research
  • What To Include In A Family History
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    Jumping Into Genealogy

    It doesn’t take a degree in archival history to get into genealogy. Anyone with a penchant to record their family’s story and learn more about their own roots can take part in the pursuit.

    To get started all a person needs is a basic idea of family history and a nose for sleuthing.

    One of the best ways to begin is to start constructing a family tree. Start with your parents or your spouses’ and fill in the blanks, working backward. What you’re looking for in a basic tree is names and places and dates of births, marriages and so on. Move up from your parents to theirs and go as far back as you can without major research.

    The simplest way to accomplish this is to ask a family member to help you fill in the blanks. If none are available with a recollection of the past, check into old family documents such as Bibles, photo albums and so on. Generally there’s at least one person in a family that enjoys hanging onto these things, so look them up!

    Once you have a basic tree with a few branches and you can’t go any further, it’s time to start looking at archival documents. This might seem a little intimidating, but you can find a lot of help at local libraries and on the Internet.

    Search for birth and death records, immigration records and so on from where your ancestors are from. Don’t get discouraged if you only can get your hands on documents that only go back a few generations. That, for many, is more than a great start, it’s a solid family tree.

    With the branches spread out as far as you can get them to go, now’s the time to fill in a little more information. Find out what you can about each of your ancestors, relying first on living relatives’ memories. Record their likes, dislikes, professions, hobbies, talents and so on. Any detail can be more than fitting.

    Whether you can only go back 100 years or your story stretches back 200, what you start when you create a genealogy is picture of your own past. It’s a fun and rewarding hobby that will give you a glimpse into the history of you.


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    Independence: Genealogy course is Sept. 13 (The Sun Courier)
    The Cuyahoga Valley Genealogical Society hosts a beginner's class in genealogy from 1-4 p.m. Sept. 13 in the Willow Room at the Independence Civic Center, 6363 Selig Drive, Independence. The class is $12 and includes a packet and one-year membership...

    Free genealogy workshop set for Saturday (Stevens Point Journal)
    The Polish Heritage Awareness Society and the Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota will hold a free genealogy workshop on Saturday in the Pinery Room of the Charles M. White Public Library, 1001 Main St. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. with the first session starting at 10 a.m. Speakers will discuss genealogical DNA testing with an opportunity to contribute, emigration from the Poznan and ...

    Stoddard County Genealogy Society Meeting (Dexter Daily Statesman)
    When: Monday, September 8, 6 p.m.

    STATE LIBRARY: Learn about genealogy (York Daily Record)
    The state library will celebrate its second annual Genealogy Day in September with exhibits and information sessions.

     
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